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7 am, hotel room, shrivardhan:
i lazily open my eyes to see the time...oh my God!! its already 8 am...we were supposed to wake up at 5 to see the sunrise on the shrivardhan beach..and we are still in bed...i call up the guys in the nxt room and as supposed they are sleeping as well..anyway we plan to meet for the breakfast downstairs in one hour...
9 am , shrivardhan beach:
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finally we are here...on the first beach..it looks so beautiful..its not crowded like the beaches in goa..it looks like a long spread of water just for us..we didnt hav any difficulty in finding the beach..it was 10 mins walkable distance from our hotel room.. and plus the cute girls going to school in shrivardhan told us the way... the beach looks so amazing... large shore.. silent boats floating to catch fishes..i soo miss my camera.. as we are enjoying cool breeze a stranger comes by and starts talking to us..he invites us to see his beach house and the whale skeleton kept there.. we are ammazed from the idea of seeing real whale bones.and go to the beach house..its really a beautiful place with all the tree houses and all.we hav a look at the place ask for charges so that we can plan and stay there in our nxt trip..and they ahve the whale bones..just the tail part but its too big...one can imagine how big a real whale is by just looking at its tail...only the tail is more than 5 feet long...
10.30 am, tahsildaar office, shrivardhan: we are leaving the shrivardhan beach and going towards harihareshwar...the more famous beach... we come to know that it takes one hour to reach harihareshwar in six seater rikshaw...so we get to the place where we can get the rikshaw which would take us to the final destination...
12 noon, harihareshwar: we are at harihareshwar finally...sitting in a local restaurant, waiting for our lunch to be served... although we had a heavy breakfast (of my favourite upma) but still the journey was tiring amd we are hungry already..we decide to have lunch and then move towards the beach... finally our orders come...as my frnds are from orrissa basically so they are more delighted to have the sea fish (i dnt know the exactly which one..they all are same for me...)..and i hav to compromise with veg thali...still the food tastes amazing..there is no btter feeling than going to a village and having the local food...
12.30 pm, harihareshwar beach :
wow..a beach with cemented shore?? this is something i hav never seen... the sea is at the foot of harihareshwar hills...and its deep...right from the piont where water touches the hill foot...so for safty it has been made from concrete...we sit near the water and talk..abuot the world and us and the world and us again...and enjoy the cool water sprinkles..and sometimes the waves are big enough to reach you and wet u all over..(as happened to my friend)..there is an old man sitting near the beach with huge coconuts...not big but huge!! they are three times the size of a normal one... this beach is a little bit crowded cos its more popular..but then its different ...different than all the other beaches i hav seen...its like some divine energy is holding us to be near it..not to leave..ever.....LEAVE!!!! oh my GOD!! what is the time?? we hav to catch a bus and return back...but first why dont we have a "naryal paani"... ;)
2 pm, harihareshwar: we are in a rikshaw again leaving harihareshwar and taking the memories with us..we hav to catch a bus at shrivardhan and reach pune before night...
3.30 pm: we are in the bus for pune..and mentally m still at shrivardhan- harihareshwar.. what a trip..what beautiful beaches...m mind in wandering in the shrivardhan lanes..and the harihareshwar restaurant and near the naryal paani wala...
i wish i had more time to spend there and enjoy the nature... its so strange how human beings love nature and cant live without it..but still chose to live far from it..in the city where all u can see is human faces in the crowd... why cant we live near the mother nature??? but then if we did we wouldnt admire it as much...
10 pm, pune: i reach my other friend's house to spend the night with her...and the trip comes to an end like every good thing does...cos other good things have to fill old one's place...bye harihareshwar..i'll come back again...
