We left Araku early next morning and went straight for the caves. These are natural caves made 3 million years earlier. I have uploaded some pictures but, the fact is, that it was very difficult to get decent pictures in the dark of the caves. Only a few pics of the entire place are worthy to be posted so, you can understand its beauty only when you see the place first hand. 3 Km from the caves, we stopped to have lunch in a roadside hotel. It was just a small hut but the food was excellent.
Well, that was it and we left for Puri. Got stuck in Truck Traffic jam a mile long. Well, we somehow cleared through it taking a bypass to it. The smooth,4 laned Golden Quadrilateral became a broken road under construction showing us clearly that we had finally reached Orissa.
We had been too ambitious, we couldn't reach Puri. So we stayed at Shree Sai lodge in a place called Balugaon. We ate dinner in a typical rundown roadside dhaba. Tell you what, we got 1 plate of rice for just Rs.8!!! Dal was for Rs.2!! The total food for three of us was of Rs.70!! The place was not exactly a W.H.O. authorised clean place but what is the use of eating the same old Paneer in Orissa? Try something authentic. If authentic is what you want, remember this logic :-
- Never eat in a hotel which has a wooden polished door.
- The hotel must not have an A/C
- Better still, only table fans.
Entrance of the cave
Brain in stone. A natural formation
My dad himself is 5'10"
Garuda Formation.
The lighting on this stone made it seem that the cave was enchanted
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