In the month of November this year, I got an opportunity to visit a less explored but unique and beautiful, culturally and historically rich region Kutch / Kachchh in the remote western part of Gujarat.
All fellow Ghumakkars know that I always prefer to visit with my family (Kavita, Sanskriti and Vedant); this would be my first travel tale on Ghumakkar where you’ll not see my wife and children with me as it was an official tour and I stolen some moments for Ghumakkari from my busy schedule. As I missed them lot during my entire stay there in Kutch, here also I am feeling very lonely in their absence in this post.
This was an official tour and I was deputed to Gandhidham (Don’t get confused with Gandhinagar), where one of my company’s sister concern is located. As per plan I had to stay at Gandhidham in company’s guest house for eight days. As I received the information of tour, my Ghumakkar mind started to look for some places to explore around Gandhidham during my visit and I decided to utilize my Sunday’s off in Ghumakkari.
I left Indore on 15th Nov. (Thursday) at 10:45 PM by Indore Gandhinagar (Shanti Express) and reached Ahmedabad at approx. 9:00 AM.
Actually I couldn’t find reservation in any train from Ahmedabad to Gandhidham so I had decided to do this journey by bus. Gandhidham is approx. 320 KM from Ahmedabad and it takes around 7 hours by bus.
From Ahmedabad railway station I took auto rickshaw and reached Paldi Station where I enquired for the buses and came to know that there is no bus before 1:30 PM, now after this shocking information I was bound to wait at Paldi bus stand for next 4 hour which seemed me a very boring job. But there was no any option except killing time anyway.
Meanwhile there came two foreigner tourists and they asked me about bus for Bhuj, The same bus in which I had to board was going up to Bhuj so I informed them about the bus. They also had a long time to wait for bus so in order to pass the time they started talking me regarding the India, its culture, tourist places etc. Though they had a very good hand book containing complete information on India tourism destination but still they were very enthusiastic about India. They were from USA and one of them was Kevin who later became my friend as we had to travel together for next 7-8 hours.
It was 11:00 O’ clock and I was feeling hungry, I saw a small shop having garmagaram Jalebi and Fafda, I along with Kevin went there to taste this delicious Gujarati breakfast. It was really tasty and Kevin also liked it, Jalebi was a miraculous dish for him.
All fellow Ghumakkars know that I always prefer to visit with my family (Kavita, Sanskriti and Vedant); this would be my first travel tale on Ghumakkar where you’ll not see my wife and children with me as it was an official tour and I stolen some moments for Ghumakkari from my busy schedule. As I missed them lot during my entire stay there in Kutch, here also I am feeling very lonely in their absence in this post.
This was an official tour and I was deputed to Gandhidham (Don’t get confused with Gandhinagar), where one of my company’s sister concern is located. As per plan I had to stay at Gandhidham in company’s guest house for eight days. As I received the information of tour, my Ghumakkar mind started to look for some places to explore around Gandhidham during my visit and I decided to utilize my Sunday’s off in Ghumakkari.
I left Indore on 15th Nov. (Thursday) at 10:45 PM by Indore Gandhinagar (Shanti Express) and reached Ahmedabad at approx. 9:00 AM.
Actually I couldn’t find reservation in any train from Ahmedabad to Gandhidham so I had decided to do this journey by bus. Gandhidham is approx. 320 KM from Ahmedabad and it takes around 7 hours by bus.
From Ahmedabad railway station I took auto rickshaw and reached Paldi Station where I enquired for the buses and came to know that there is no bus before 1:30 PM, now after this shocking information I was bound to wait at Paldi bus stand for next 4 hour which seemed me a very boring job. But there was no any option except killing time anyway.
Meanwhile there came two foreigner tourists and they asked me about bus for Bhuj, The same bus in which I had to board was going up to Bhuj so I informed them about the bus. They also had a long time to wait for bus so in order to pass the time they started talking me regarding the India, its culture, tourist places etc. Though they had a very good hand book containing complete information on India tourism destination but still they were very enthusiastic about India. They were from USA and one of them was Kevin who later became my friend as we had to travel together for next 7-8 hours.
It was 11:00 O’ clock and I was feeling hungry, I saw a small shop having garmagaram Jalebi and Fafda, I along with Kevin went there to taste this delicious Gujarati breakfast. It was really tasty and Kevin also liked it, Jalebi was a miraculous dish for him.
the Famous breakfast of Gujarat – Jalebi Fafda.
