Dapoli and around…
Place – Dapoli (District Ratnagiri) – About 230 km from Mumbai.
Date – 22nd to 24th April 2011
There are some places on Earth which doesn’t have an aura of city glamour around them. They remain simple, calm and yet extraordinarily beautiful with a potential to draw a large group of people towards them. India is blessed with numerous such places and Kokan surely has quite a few of them. Even after being quite close to my native place, Shrivardhan, I never visited Dapoli untill last weekend. Sometimes you just tend to ignore some places. And I must admit, Dapoli was one such ignored place by me (for no reason). However, we decided to spend the long weekend of 22nd to 24th April at Dapoli and visit the places around… and it turned out to be such a fantastic experience!!! I just felt, if this is the enjoyment one can have in hot summer, how great it would be in post-monsoon and winter season….?? I cannot wait….I want to visit this region again…and again 🙂 !!
About 2 km from Dapoli ST stand, in the village Gimhavane, is this beautiful home-stay run and maintained by Oak family. It has 3 spacious rooms with good forest around. The food served is delicious and hospitality is nice.
Indian Grey Hornbill, Malabar Pied Hornbill, Brown-headed Barbet, White cheeked barbet, Coppersmith barbet, Orange-headed ground thrush, Iora, Indian Coucal, Red whiskered bulbul, Rufous woodpecker, Bramhiny Kite, Purple rumped Sunbird, Magpie Robin, Tailor bird etc can be spotted around.
The photo may not really give an idea of this beautifully located, ancient Lord Shiva temple (about 1250 years old, known as – Vyaghreshwar temple) in village Asud (about 10 km from Dapoli). This is a kind of temple I really like visiting – absolutely serene!!
About 25 km from Dapoli, is situated an ancient temple of Lord Ganesha at a beautiful place – Anjarle. The Ganesh temple is known as “kadyavarcha Ganpati” (because of it’s location). Enroute, one can see this beautiful Anjarle beach !!! (Sorry… there was no way I could prevent the electric pole 🙁 )
Hi Abhi
Very good pics again. I had visited a small village near Dapoli loong time ago but I didn’t have a chance to visit Dapoli. It sure looks like a lovely place. Hopefully I will get a chance to visit Malvan and more places in Kokan some times soon.
Ani
Comment by Animish — April 26, 2011 @ 2:44 am
Nice Pics n Nice location though…..:) Next time if u plan to visit Dapoli again,do visit murud-karde beach near by….where u will b able to see dolphins too… I have covered this area on 2 wheeler so it was much adventerous.
Comment by Nitin — April 26, 2011 @ 8:03 am
very nice pics
Comment by Atul Kolhe — April 26, 2011 @ 9:21 am
Wow!!! Wonderful photos Abhi…as always 🙂
Do let me know if u visit Dapoli again….I wud love to join u guys
Comment by Shweta — April 26, 2011 @ 9:30 am
Seems to be a great place to visit :)..tempting…
Very nice pics abhi…
Comment by Harish Chandak — April 26, 2011 @ 10:14 am
wonderful… nice pics. nowi can plan to visit this place
Comment by prachi kulkarni — April 26, 2011 @ 10:20 am
Awesome!
Comment by Ganesh Bhalerao — April 26, 2011 @ 2:18 pm
Superb Abhijit ………… nice images.
Pity that being in Dapoli for those 3 days we could not meet or plan a trip 🙁 May be post monsoon ……………………………………… ??
Comment by Santosh Gulavani — April 26, 2011 @ 6:44 pm
Hi
A good travelogue… worth following your visits…
THE PHOTOGRAPHS R REALLY GOOD AND THE BIRDS MAY REALISE THEIR BEAUTY AFTER SEEING them in ur pictures… 🙂
Comment by Rajendra Jaiswal — April 27, 2011 @ 1:24 pm
You could have easily got away with electric poles with some photo editing software.. that would have been perfect picture..
Comment by Vishal — June 6, 2011 @ 12:27 am
Thanks Vishal… Frankly, I was a bit lazy doing photo editing to remove it :-).
Comment by Abhijit — June 6, 2011 @ 10:33 am
lovely place… btw the electric poles r part of the landscape and r not hurting the eye… if u want to delete them, then same applies to the car even.
gud pics too.
Comment by Vaibhavi — June 14, 2011 @ 10:38 am
The photo of the mouth of the river is exceptional – the maiden river is impatiently hurrying to meet the manly sea.
Comment by Gita de silva — June 15, 2011 @ 12:25 pm
Hi Abhijit,
Indeed you had a very nice weeend…. I am planning to visit Dapoli at the New Years eve.. Can you suggest me any hot spots near Dapoli … and more photos if you can share…
Bye
Sunil
Comment by Sunil Abhyankar — September 14, 2011 @ 1:37 pm
Dear Abhijit,
Nice photographs from Dapoli-Anjarle area.
Anjarle is my native place & we conduct nature trails at & around Dapoli.
Regards…………Prashant
Comment by Prashant M. Nijasure — November 3, 2011 @ 7:48 pm
Dear Abhijit,
Really nice look out.
You captured perfect passion of Nature.
Regards
Comment by Satish Kurkure — December 1, 2011 @ 4:52 pm