Alibag

Yesterday I went to Alibag, a costal town in Raigad district of Maharashtra; It is three hours journey from Mumbai. The Place is famous for its beautiful  and most importantly less crowded beaches and clean water and clean sand and Kolaba Fort. The easiest way to go this place is to take ferry service from Gateway of India and the trip takes just 45 minutes. It takes to a place called Mandawa port, which is again popular place for resorts of Bollywood celebrities. From Mandawa, one can reach Alibag by bus service. Actually the ferry services to alibag include this bus journey also and thus you don’t have to take any pain to find bus or wait for bus at Mandawa. One can reach Alibag from Mumbai by Bus or Train but both are time consuming.

I first heard about Alibag in Shahid and Amrita’s debut movie “Ishq-Vishq” which was my life’s ever FDFS movie  J  and I never thought I will be ever going to the place but Destiny had thought differently!

Alibag, as the name is sweet, the place is also very sweet. The most attracting part is for me that it is very less crowded and I guess if anyone  want to be with himself/herself or want to spend time in private with special persons, then Alibag is absolutely a good option. The beach is clean with clean sand and beach side Casurina Jungle is nice place to take rest.

I went to the place with Kallol. We started our journey from Borivali at 7.30 and reached Alibag at 11.00. We first wanted to go to the Kolaba Fort which is one of the attractions of this place. But as we learned that as it was high tide time, so it is not possible to go. We have to wait to water coming down at low tide time which generally happens around 2-2.30. So we went to Varsoli Beach which is again nice and clean, almost picturesque.

It was fashion day for me thanks for ever rocking enthusiasm of Kallol. He clicked me in every possible pose to make sure that I don’t look bad (Picture uploaded in Flickr). I must say, he has really clicked some awesome pictures.

As we were interested in going to fort, after lunch we started our journey. Very interestingly the water level had come down and the place what we had seen in morning as full of water was now like a football ground of sand. We had to walk about 1-2 Km to reach the fort but after heavy lunch it was becoming difficult for me to walk as my Tummy was not permitting. So we hired a Tanga (Yea, driven by Horse) and reached the fort by 5 Minutes. Kolaba fort (Though the name has nothing to do with Colaba, Mumbai) was built by Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in 1652 to keep a check on the activities of the foreign naval powers of English, Portuguese and the Siddhi of Janjira (Source:Wikipedia). It always nice to talk with History as it reveals so much. The knowledge of people of those eras is really stunning and their art reflects their knowledge. Kolaba Fort is also not an exceptional. Here also Kallol clicked some good pictures. We returned from Alibag at 6 PM.

As you are out of Mumbai or any other Metro, the environment changes, you then see colour of nature instead of colour of thronging crowd; you then listen the music of nature instead of horns of car, buses; the sky become clearer. Now if you add sea in this picture of nature, every thing becomes pristine.

So visit to Alibag (or places like these) will be always recharging and refreshing experience and recommending you to visit such near by places to recharge yourself J