Day 1: Hyd To Anakapalli : We started Tuesday @ office on 4PM to catch Godavari train, As usual train jrny, But this time we had time pass with co-passenger who is belongs to AKP area. At VIJ Balu(Venky's brother) joined with us, Ofcourse I already completed 1/4th sleep. Eventhough we ate biryani as dinner in train I am hungry when train reached VIJ. Balu bought some chocolate cake, After swallow that all of us slept ...... @4PM Myself, venky waked up and searched for the area we reached, After some time we concluded that we just crossed Tuni station. After 1Hr travelling we reached Anakapalli where we need to get down. Naidu already arranged Cab to receive us. After Tuni crossed we got cal from Naidu and cab driver also(Naidu always give priority to us to avoid probs to reach his vlage). When Cab driver Nagesh received us and ready to leave myself and venky felt hungry, So we asked Nagesh to take us to the tiffin center.He stopped car @ vijayalakshmi tiffen center near AKP bus stand. We orderd Idly(Ofcourse Idly only availbe at tht time), after tasting Idly venky and me felt tht the taste exactly like our Diploma hostel mess, Same chutney(I always hate that taste).
Day 2: Anakapalli To Taruva : After early breakfast completed we started @ 6.15AM, ... The road way frm AKP to Chodavaram was very nice and also because of early morning jrny with l8 music ..... wahhhh ...,we njoyed tht feel. Both sides of road are too greeny with sugar cane fields and small hills. Chodavaram to Taruva was single road with many turns, in middle we crossed Sarada river twice. Due to heavy rains river was flowing with full of water. With all these sceneries we reached Naidu's home @ 7.30AM. Naidu received us and taken us to home. After naidu got job he re-built the home, Well built home with furniture. Entire day we spent with Naidu. Chinna , Kiran, Ranganath, Ganesh and Rambabu joined us @ evening. We had some snaps with bridegroom. One special thing is new Kalyana Madampam is opening with Naidu's marriage in this village. According to some village elders around 10,000 people(3 Mandalas) attened marriage .... Wowww ...I am sure Naidu was lucky to had such kind of grand success of his marriage. Ofcourse rain threatened litle bit , but nothing happened badly.
Day 3: @ Taruva :All of us waked up @ 7.30AM. Naidu's childhood friends waiting for us to wake up, They(Srinivas Naidu & Narshima Naidu) taken us to Sarada river which is flowing thru this village. I dont have words to explain the feel we got there.. The river bank area really awesome ... We brushed there with natural Neem tree trunks and ate Sugar canes.. The guys with us really helped a lot to njoy the nature .. Thx Narsi and Srinu ...See snaps here.
We returned back to home @ 10.30AM. Had tiffin and Tea(Actually Myself and venky looked for Glass Idly .., We always kidding naidu abt this.). After some discussions we decided our next plan, Ofcourse we aready planned to visit Araku, Paderu .., Discussion about wt is the sequence. Almost 1hr discussions we finalized the plan, First visit Paderu then goto Araku and Borra caves. Ramakrishan who is childhood friend to Naidu was also joined with us.
Taruva To Paderu: We started @ 11.30, First we caught auto to reach Chodavaram , From here We got Jeep to reach Paderu which is 70KM far from here. On the way rain started slowly .., To be frank we didn't njoyed the journy, Some of us had vomting feel. We reached Paderu @ 3.30PM. Because of Ganesh local here we didn't wasted time to take food. He taken us to Varma hotel, All of us first had hot hot pakodi and Tea, All of us voted 5/5 for Tea(Mixed elaichi and ginger flavors). After that we had our favorite tiffins and came to main road to book some cab to goto Araku. I think you have a Q Why are you went to Paderu?? to eat Varma's tiffin ??? Ans is Actually the roadway from Chodavarm to Paderu was very beatiful and a very long ghat road. Got it?? ... Ok lets continue .....
Paderu To Araku: We booked TATA Indica to reach Araku which is 80KM far from paderu. Eveing 4.30PM .. whether was so cleaned, If you observe after raining sky was too calm,...Not beleaving see these pics... The road way is Ok but road side sceneries are really mesmerized, but wt can we do .. simply crossing all and some snaps ...
Before 15KM far from Araku there is one noted place Chaparaya water slide, But I already told you all rivers, lakes having heavy floating due to heavy rains. We just had some snaps and continued jrny towards Araku. We reached Araku @ 6.30PM, 2 hrs jrny from Paderu to Aarku really superb. Because of winter season Sun almost gone @ early evening hours. After get down the cab had a Tea and gathered some info abt lodging, Finally we went to Vikas resorts which is beside AP tourism's vennela resort. Single room costed 600Rs for one night. Due to the entire day with jrns all of us tired, So had early sleep after dinner @ 9PM.
Day 4: @ Araku : One by One waked up from 7Am onwards and njoyed some good feel of sunchine @ out side of resorts. All of us got ready and left Resort @ 10.30AM. We went to Araku valley center to catch auto to go to Padmapuram Gardens, before that we had tiffin, it was not bad. One twist is due to Cam memory filled up with existing photos, I decided to move those pics to Venky's USB. Araku was not a town we didn't find any Internet centers(Ofcourse we didn't searched long). We got one computer institute, After copied pics from Cam memory card to desktop, I cleared some pics and videos from cam memory card. Now while coping pics from desktop to USB power cut happened .. Ohhh ..shit the system doesn't have any UPS.. Ohhh god .... Because of we dont have much time to wait we left from there .....Luckly yesterday all pics already copied to laptop by Narshimna Naidu. We caught Auto to go Padmapuram gardens, not much pilgrims due to not good weather. Whether you beleave or nor the sky was really awesome ... very bluish .... I captured all these ... take a look some pics....
Araku To Borra Caves: We left early from here to go Borra caves. We got Jeep to Borra caves which is 40-50 KM far from Araku. Again the road way was very very superb and ghat road with coffee estates both sides of road .... ohhhh awesome. One side deeeeeep valley and one side too height rocks ... sceneries again mesmerized. We reached Borra caves @ 3PM and had meals. We had a special attachment to this hotel(dont hv the name), because meal was very tasty and last time when we visited araku we had meals here only(Kalyan's fav). We went into caves and spent some time there. Bad luck is Cam battery down, so we dont have a chance to take pics. After that we reached Borra railway station to catch Kirandul-Vskp passenger to go Vizag. Good news is train was running from today, it was cancelled last 3 days due to track issues. But train running 90 min late, So all of us chit chatted some time. We reached Vizag @ 10.30PM and I caught Konark expresee and reached NDD @ 3.30AM and took bike from staion and reached my cousin's home and slept there(Already my cousing left bike @ station) ....
Thanks guys to have a great and memorable trip ... Thanks Naidu....
Before 15KM far from Araku there is one noted place Chaparaya water slide, But I already told you all rivers, lakes having heavy floating due to heavy rains. We just had some snaps and continued jrny towards Araku. We reached Araku @ 6.30PM, 2 hrs jrny from Paderu to Aarku really superb. Because of winter season Sun almost gone @ early evening hours. After get down the cab had a Tea and gathered some info abt lodging, Finally we went to Vikas resorts which is beside AP tourism's vennela resort. Single room costed 600Rs for one night. Due to the entire day with jrns all of us tired, So had early sleep after dinner @ 9PM.
Day 4: @ Araku : One by One waked up from 7Am onwards and njoyed some good feel of sunchine @ out side of resorts. All of us got ready and left Resort @ 10.30AM. We went to Araku valley center to catch auto to go to Padmapuram Gardens, before that we had tiffin, it was not bad. One twist is due to Cam memory filled up with existing photos, I decided to move those pics to Venky's USB. Araku was not a town we didn't find any Internet centers(Ofcourse we didn't searched long). We got one computer institute, After copied pics from Cam memory card to desktop, I cleared some pics and videos from cam memory card. Now while coping pics from desktop to USB power cut happened .. Ohhh ..shit the system doesn't have any UPS.. Ohhh god .... Because of we dont have much time to wait we left from there .....Luckly yesterday all pics already copied to laptop by Narshimna Naidu. We caught Auto to go Padmapuram gardens, not much pilgrims due to not good weather. Whether you beleave or nor the sky was really awesome ... very bluish .... I captured all these ... take a look some pics....
Araku To Borra Caves: We left early from here to go Borra caves. We got Jeep to Borra caves which is 40-50 KM far from Araku. Again the road way was very very superb and ghat road with coffee estates both sides of road .... ohhhh awesome. One side deeeeeep valley and one side too height rocks ... sceneries again mesmerized. We reached Borra caves @ 3PM and had meals. We had a special attachment to this hotel(dont hv the name), because meal was very tasty and last time when we visited araku we had meals here only(Kalyan's fav). We went into caves and spent some time there. Bad luck is Cam battery down, so we dont have a chance to take pics. After that we reached Borra railway station to catch Kirandul-Vskp passenger to go Vizag. Good news is train was running from today, it was cancelled last 3 days due to track issues. But train running 90 min late, So all of us chit chatted some time. We reached Vizag @ 10.30PM and I caught Konark expresee and reached NDD @ 3.30AM and took bike from staion and reached my cousin's home and slept there(Already my cousing left bike @ station) ....
Thanks guys to have a great and memorable trip ... Thanks Naidu....
@Naidu : Everything is went fine but we disappointed about Das matter .. We expected to meet him, but u r not co-operated .... :P ....Lol ....
