So again my work made me to visit this place... Alibagh or Alibag or Alibaug. I don't know what is the correct form of its name but you would find this place is quite awesome and also our Shakespeare has already mentioned "What is there in the name"..right. Anyways, this is a place in Maharashtra .. a place of beaches.
You start from anywhere, if you are not careful enough you would end up having yourself at some beach. Varsoli, Alibagh, Nagaon are some of those beaches which I could see during my stay.
Yeah ..like most of the time, my journey started from Ahmedabad. I reached Panvel by bus and from there again I had to take another bus to reach Alibagh. From Panvel to Alibagh, it was a one and half hour journey through a route full of natural beauty.
So, then after this journey I was in Alibagh with my two colleagues. My colleagues were excited because they were informed or may be misinformed (depending upon their source of information) that Yana Gupta has one of her bunglows here. Well, the very first day, I came out of my room in the evening only and weather was pretty fine. But the next day, when I moved out of my place for my work, I found it was boiling hot temperature out there which made me understand that day time in Alibagh was not so friendly with me.
But then I discovered something which could beat this heat.. a cottage. Yes, totally a cottage on the side of beach surrounded with tall trees and an ideal place for picnic. Let me describe it in more detail to make you guys more jealous. It was a place on the side of a beach where you can take a cottage on rent. A shady place covered with tall trees and sea breeze from one side can make your soul go crazy . You can order meals from the eatery attached or if you want you can prepare your own meal and they will provide you all the things required. You can dance, you can sing, you can have party, you can totally have a wonderful time keeping your regular worries and tensions far behind.
This made me think "I should own a house here". Well, this is typical me so you can just avoid this very line.
But yeah there are plenty of such cottages on sea shore available on rent. So, you can go there with your family and friends.
And now the most interesting part. On the very last day of my visit, I got a chance to see ‘Mela’. I don’t know how do we translate ‘Mela’ in English. But for the time being let’s call it ‘Mela’. So, we were informed that there is this Mela near Varsoli beach. We went there. And it was really a great thing to see. This Mela had a lot of desi flavor in it. You won’t believe what I had. I had sugar cane juice which was being produced by crushing sugar cane using a machine run by cattle (like buffalo, ox etc.). It was truly Indian. I just loved it. And that cane juice tasted so pure and real. Next, I enjoyed that game of shooting balloons with the help of a gun. And you know what, I won the game beating my colleagues which means I am still on, guys! Then I had those fast and crazy rides (those typical electric “Jhoola”). There was a ride called as “Break Dance”. It was such a joyful ride that I rode it twice back to back.
