On way to Antarvedi
At Antarvedi 
At Antarvedi
Paddy fields on way to AntarvediTrip to Rajmundhry, Antarvedi and Kakinada:
It was just a casual talk with my colleague Mahesh in the office canteen that sparked off this journey and within 2 days we were all set for this trip. The first option was to book tickets on the package tour (Hyderabad-Rajmundhry-Bhadrachalam-Hyderabad) offered by APTDC .But, we couldn’t get tickets for it. In the hindsight this worked out well as we would have missed Antarvedi and Kakinada. In the end we booked boating tickets from Rajmundhry to Papikondulu and back.
We (Reetesh,Mahesh,Ajay,Manoj and Me)boarded the bus from Hyderabad to Rajmundhry on 20.9.2009 and reached there in the morning. After finding a hotel near the bus stand and all freshened up, we booked an Ambassador to Antarvedi.At a distance of 110 kms from Rajmundhry; it is the meeting point of river Godavari and the sea. The road to Antarvedi passes through numerous villages and is surrounded on both sides by endless paddy fields. On reaching Antarvedi, we hired a diesel boat to take us to the actual meeting point and the Island.However, one can reach the meeting point by foot or motorcycles, as we discovered later. It is next to the lighthouse. At the meeting point one can actually see the “waves filled sea” and the “calmer river” on either side. On the way back we saw an amazing engineering feat. A canal over the river. After a brief photo session and numerous Chai-Paani breaks we reached back at Rajmundhry.One must see place of Rajmundhry is its double decker rail cum road bridge-supposed to be Asia’s largest.
We slept early to get up early the next day for our boat ride. We reached the boating agent’s place on time to catch the bus to the actual boarding point- Pattiseema.Boarded the boat only to find it cancelled after some time. A boat mishap the previous day warranted the police to take such action. Not to let this dampen our spirits, we came back to Rajmundhry to hire another Ambassador to Kakinada-the port town. One peculiar feature on this part of the Golden Quadrilateral is –on the 4 lane expressway with 2 lanes on both sides of the middle barricade, one can find vehicles coming in the wrong direction straight at you that too in the right most lane. Further investigation revealed - most people mistake the 2 lanes as one for going and another for coming. Incredible India indeed.
Kakinada, at a distance of 90 kms from Rajmundhry was reached in 2.5 hours. We went straight to the beach and spent some quality time there just lazing around. Finally, in the evening went back to Rajmundhry to catch the night bus to Hyderabad. All in all a nice trip. Though, we didn’t do the boat ride for which this trip was originally planned. But, as they say “There is always a next time”.
It was just a casual talk with my colleague Mahesh in the office canteen that sparked off this journey and within 2 days we were all set for this trip. The first option was to book tickets on the package tour (Hyderabad-Rajmundhry-Bhadrachalam-Hyderabad) offered by APTDC .But, we couldn’t get tickets for it. In the hindsight this worked out well as we would have missed Antarvedi and Kakinada. In the end we booked boating tickets from Rajmundhry to Papikondulu and back.
We (Reetesh,Mahesh,Ajay,Manoj and Me)boarded the bus from Hyderabad to Rajmundhry on 20.9.2009 and reached there in the morning. After finding a hotel near the bus stand and all freshened up, we booked an Ambassador to Antarvedi.At a distance of 110 kms from Rajmundhry; it is the meeting point of river Godavari and the sea. The road to Antarvedi passes through numerous villages and is surrounded on both sides by endless paddy fields. On reaching Antarvedi, we hired a diesel boat to take us to the actual meeting point and the Island.However, one can reach the meeting point by foot or motorcycles, as we discovered later. It is next to the lighthouse. At the meeting point one can actually see the “waves filled sea” and the “calmer river” on either side. On the way back we saw an amazing engineering feat. A canal over the river. After a brief photo session and numerous Chai-Paani breaks we reached back at Rajmundhry.One must see place of Rajmundhry is its double decker rail cum road bridge-supposed to be Asia’s largest.
We slept early to get up early the next day for our boat ride. We reached the boating agent’s place on time to catch the bus to the actual boarding point- Pattiseema.Boarded the boat only to find it cancelled after some time. A boat mishap the previous day warranted the police to take such action. Not to let this dampen our spirits, we came back to Rajmundhry to hire another Ambassador to Kakinada-the port town. One peculiar feature on this part of the Golden Quadrilateral is –on the 4 lane expressway with 2 lanes on both sides of the middle barricade, one can find vehicles coming in the wrong direction straight at you that too in the right most lane. Further investigation revealed - most people mistake the 2 lanes as one for going and another for coming. Incredible India indeed.
Kakinada, at a distance of 90 kms from Rajmundhry was reached in 2.5 hours. We went straight to the beach and spent some quality time there just lazing around. Finally, in the evening went back to Rajmundhry to catch the night bus to Hyderabad. All in all a nice trip. Though, we didn’t do the boat ride for which this trip was originally planned. But, as they say “There is always a next time”.
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