Photos and Journey to Ganpatipule Beach Resort, Maharashtra - India

Hi,

It was the month of October, 2010 when my Mom and Brother came over to visit us in Pune. After looking at few destinations; we decided to visit Ganpatipule Beach situated at the Konkan Coastline in Maharashtra - as few of my friends praised it a lot.

We started off early in the morning from Pune; though we missed the timeline of 5:00 AM and were late by an hour due to IST – Indian Standard Time Syndrome :). The distance from Pune to Ganpatipule is around 300 Kms and people say it takes around 4.5 hours to reach there but we took around 6.5 hours as we were stopping by en route to take some shots or just to watch the scenic beauty of the Western Ghats.

We reached there at around 1:00 PM, checked in and were really excited to see our sea facing cottages (Video #2 and 3), the resort was beautiful and very well maintained. The staff was very friendly and knew we are going to have a good time here. We dropped in our baggage and went straight to the Beach which was hardly few steps away from our cottages; in fact you could see and hear the sound of waves from the window of  the cottage.

We hadn't seen a beach of such a kind before, it was beautiful, neat, peaceful and we were feeling as if it was our own personal beach, if you watch Video #4 and 5 you will come to know what I am talking about. There was no single person seen, no crowd no commercialization. There were only us and we actually enjoyed a lot!!!

   

After the tiring dip in the sea; we headed towards our evening plan to have a bar-be-que on the beach, but as we forgot to carry our own grill we had to compromise on the ready made Tandoori (Grilled) Chicken, which was not too bad either. Few drinks and dinner, it was indeed the most awesome and memorable trip of ours and will always be.

Next morning we were in the sea again, but this time the tides very high and the water was pulling you inside the sea, after the alert and after taking few shots we headed back to our cottages, got ready had breakfast at the resort and headed back to Pune. Phew! We still remember this trip…

Sharing few shots of this trip:

I hope anyone who is planning a trip to Ganpatipule will find this information useful. Drop me a line @ Vickramh Raghuvanssi Photography, to know more about booking and stuff. We paid Rs.3000 for 2 Konkani House AC Room (Double Bed). It was a good deal and a memorable trip.

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Vickramh