A humbling Experience : Travelogue

Destination : Daman

From : Mumbai
Members : Saurabh , Aakash , Ankur A, Soumya (AKA Dada), Abhishek (AKA DVD), KM, Siddharth( AKA Sid AKA Sukha)
The Preparation:
On Friday eve I sensed some strong movements between Ankur's and Sid's Room, Otherwise Ankur is mostly busy making reports forD & B in closed room and Sid would watch online TV in ever openned room. It turned out to be a plan to Visit Daman over weekend. Plan was simple to pack bags and leave in morning rest every thing will be seen later . DVD packed enough luggage to last for one month ( In the pic below the Bag of DVD , extreme left side . It had Ankurs baggage too) . It was decided that Dada will handle all the money matters hence he was releived by all other responsibilities , his baggage was taken care by Sukha.

The Journey :



In morning KM and Aakash delayed enough for us to change our boarding station so we reached to Borivali with our bags , took a general class ticket for Gujrat express. We all have now become veteran in travellin in Locals and buses in Mumbai, little did we know what was coming would be a test of all our skills aqcuired so far in locals. The train was all packed from CST itself and there was no room for even a single person but then thats Mumbai teaches one in life , Fighting spirit and never give up attitude . In an already full compartment atleast 40 more people boarded from Borivali , that means now it was simply nightmare inside the train. Dada and sukha managed to get inside fast because of thier round body structure and secured some space to stand on both legs.
DVD and myself were trying to settle ourselves , Ankur was already hanging on the other door , A small push could have departed him from the train aginst his will. The situation was funny with KM and Aakash who almost got frozen on one leg near the enterance , such was the condition that they couldn't move any body part and above that there was lots of shouting from door to get inside. Seriously speaking it would have taken strength of 8-9 people to move them a single inch from thier position, unfortunately they had to travel entire 2 hrs in same manner. On the other side DVD was troubled by his bag ( Remember the size of the bag....) somhow he managed to hang it . We got down at Vapi and the first thing was to pick up a fight with Sukha and Ankur for travel experience of lifetime, anyways they were still grinning and giving gyan as how they could manage ( In the pic above , Aakash is still not in any mood to let it go and below Dada being joyful on victorious side) .






The Arrival:

We walked down to bus stand to pick a bus for Daman but train journey , walk and monsterous ba had broken DVD badly , he planely refused to board the bus and demaned to go Daman by Cab. After reaching Daman we picked up a decent hotel ( SukhSagar) , Dada did some typical bargaining and got 3 room for 7 people on the charges of 6. This is the point I started realising that we have picked up the right guy for spending the money .
At 11:30 we had lunch at Samrat which was a gujrati thali with some 15 dishes , The first thing Dada asked after looking at a plate and 10 bowls .. "
Are you going to fill all of them "... and waiter confidently said "yes" , he did fullfil his promise and soon we had entire range of Gujrati food even after which Dada was not very happy cribbing " I would have loved it should it all have been non veg .." After food we headed towards Nani Daman port which harbours lots of fish catching boats .


A small temple which had nice cool hall and people got tempted to stretch thier legs. Very soon DVD , KM were in deep sleep, others sneaked out to look inside the old Fort near by , Dada made some fancy stories about kings and queens of fort which we felt was his normal creative unidirectional stuff . The fort had only surrouding walls , nothing much inside . After spending some more time in garden we decided to move towards the light house on the other side of the Sea.
Visit to Light House:


Even after my strongest opposition of going by Boat, Anku was sent to find if we can get a boat ride to other side. After a story telling session of 45 minutes where Ankur told someone what all we have visisted and got some more Gyan which we already knew till now about the place , he managed to arrange the fishing boat to take us to the other side. On the other side We visited Light house , sme more Gardens , Bom Jesus church where Aakash tried hard to find a confession room . People also did some tarzan acts on old trees .

Around 3 PM we found a library . The problem with MBA folks is even if they live in jungle then also they would expect ET in next morning so
Library with all kinda newspaper was a treat . Dada , Sukha , Me and DVD went inside , after reading all newspapers ( including Gujrathi and Marathi
once) Dada happily dozed over desk , Aakash combined 2 chairs for powernap and later joined by KM and Ankur.
Evening :
From thier we moved to Jambore beach. The problem with beaches in Daman is that water retreats more then a KM after 4 PM , so if you visit any beach in morning or evening you will be welcomed by a long stretch of sand. Same happened here , by 5 PM there was no water to be seen till 3/4th of a KM so we traveled on the wet sand from which water has just retreated leaving lots of colourful shells around.

It is here we started seeing the strong bonding between DVD and Ankur A , Probably the atmosphere....Both were always together and making sure that other is comfortable . Anyway Ankur had a reason for being so caring, since morning it was DVD carrying the large bag ..... We left Jambore by 7:30 arrived in the city at around 8:30 . By 9 we were in Soverien for Dinner . After reaching to hotel it was Indian Idol which kept us busy for some more time.