Konkan Travel - Day 2

The Day 2 began with a pleasant-full morning and we did not felt we had a longest 450 kms journey on the previous day. Our plan for the day had got changed now and first thing to do for the day was visiting Sindhudurg Fort. We had a heavy breakfast and left at around 7.30 with just single bike of Rohit for Malvan Bandar(port).

Random pics around Tarkarli and Malvan Port:

Beautiful temple in Tarkarli

Malvan is compact town with historical places and beautiful beaches. Nature of the people here found to be good and helping. This place has its own beauty and lifestyle :). Malvan port is approx 4 kms from Tarkarli. Southern part of Malvan (Vengurla beach, Bhogwe beach etc) was on less priority for us as it would have added too much for the day.

The port was less crowded. We could see the view of fort from the port. There were few people waiting for a boat to take us to the fort. we had to talk to a local fisherman for a boat and gathered people around us to countable size, then the fisherman agreed us to take us. They need at least 20 people group. The fisherman agreed for 100 bucks for a return trip. After spending almost 1 hour for boat, we started for fort at around 9 am. It takes 10-15 mins to reach the fort.

Distant view of fort

Sindhudurg is one the longest water distance SEA fort. It is one of strongest fort standing in the SEA. One will wonder about its construction looking at it. We had 1 hour time to visit the fort.  We can see the strength of the fort once we see the layers hitting against the wall.

Malvan is famous for its fish market held in morning. We had missed it but had another chance to experience it :). Another crazy thought crossed in Rohit's mind. We wanted to go with some fisherman in sea and experience fishing. We left this thing for next morning to do :D.  We were back to port visiting Sindhudurg at around 11 am.

We moved on to visit Vijaydurg fort and decided to cover Kunkeshwar temple and rest of the beaches in between on the return journey. Vijaydurg fort is approx 77 kms from Malvan and 36 kms from Devgad. Devgad is very small town compared to Malvan and did not seem to have good accommodation so we decided to stay in Malvan and cover these places.

On the way to vijaydurg:

Vijaydrug fort is a small and old fort on Sindhudurg coast. It is accessible by road from one side and covered by water from all three sides. We had a round on the fort. You get a good view of Vijaydrug beach and the sea around from the top.

It was almost 3 pm, we had to head back as couple of things where left to visit. We came back to Kunkeshwar temple. This is one of the oldest temple during pandwa's time.

It was almost 5 pm and we wanted to spent the evening at Tarkarli beach again :). As we were travelling from complete sea shore line we tried to visit the beaches on the way we can. The environment was very fresh and full of pure oxygen on this Vijaydurg visit.

We spent the last evening on this beach and it was time to leave the place, but we had our fishing plan yet to be executed. We came back after dark and had dinner went for sleep little early so that we could make it for fishing if lucky.