Trip
to Araku – Burra Caves – Vishakapatnam
Number of Persons : 6
Number of Days: 3 (Fri+Sat+Sun)
Expenditure per head: Approx
1800-2000 (excluding your personal
shopping or other cost)
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Hi friends
last year in January 2013 i went to 3 days trip to Coastal area of Andhra
Pradesh. I and my 5 friends planned to leave from Hyderabad on Friday and to
return on Tuesday (Sat-Sun-Mon).
We booked to Vishakhapatnam
from Hyderabad you can get list of trains
between Hyd and Vizag HERE.
We left at 5.15 pm from HYB by Godavari express and reached vizag by morning 6
am. We got fresh and had tiffin. At 6.50 there is a passenger train to Araku
from Vizag. You will reach Burra Caves Railway Station at 11 am. On the way you will get nearly 40 Underground
canals and the scenic beauty is breath
taking. Stick to windows so that you can enjoy it this is heart of the trip don’t
waste by sleeping, no one will allow you to sleep every one shout as it enters
the canals.
By reaching
Araku you have to choose any cab. There are lot of peoples will be there with
advertisement. Don’t be panic and don’t agree on more than 100-150 per head. They
will take you to 2 waterfalls, Burra caves and finally Leave you at Araku city
through nice Coffee farms. They will tell they will show many other spots but
it cannot be done in single day so i suggest to have bath in KATKI falls till
1.00 pm and go back to burra caves have Lunch (Veg Andhra Bhojanalaya) see the
burra caves and then at 4 leave to Araku on the way they will show another
waterfall nice to see but not easy to play or take bath then through coffee farms
and scenic spots you reach Araku at 6-7 pm. There are lot of hotels we stayed
in the HUTs which are located opposite to the Andhra Pradesh tourism guest
house.
Next day was
Sunday and we woke up early and had a nice trek to the near hill which is
completely covered in the fog. Then at 7 we had breakfast and went to Chaparayi
by local bus which is 10 Km from Araku. The Chaparayi is also a good waterfall
the wonderfull thing about chaparayi is water flows on big rock which is
horizontal and slightly slope. You can slid from top to bottom in water about
50 metres.
Then came back
to araku had lunch and then we left back to vizag and reached vizag by night at
9 pm and took room in a hotel. Next morning was Monday we woke up very early and
went to Rama Krishna beach to see the sunrise (Vizag is east coast you will
have sunrise not sunset). We enjoyed a lot and had hot hot vada’s on the
streets. Then went to Kailash giri and trek to the top. Then get down at 12 and
had Lunch then went to Rushi konda beach and played a lot in beach of golden
sand. Then came back to hotel by 4.30 and reached railway station by 5 and our
Godavari express was waiting for us. We left at 5.15 and reached Hyderabad at
morning 6.
Now our every
day trip started by 10 am we were at ..........
Infront of our
Team leader telling reasons for yesterdays (Mondays) leave. Our TL was in
friend list of one of my friend and he liked the trip photos after listening
our innovative reasons.
