Konkan Railways : Journey to Heaven

It’s monsoon time in India and I have a promises to keep.

Keeping up with my annual date with Konkan Railways for the third consecutive year, this year also I made the all famous Panvel-Madgaon Trip with Konkan Railways.

It all started on Friday night(and yes, only after having two boring meetings and a last minute checkin’s), I board a train to Kalyan . This route is far more than familiar to me to excite me but that can never take away the scenic beauty on this route. How I can forget the Arab couple who have flown down to Mumbai for a one day only to have a MUMBAI-PUNE-MUMBAI trip by train and experience the virgin beauty of SHAYADRI Range(I met them way back in 2007).

Anyhow I made it to Panvel  by 5:00 am, had a light breakfast and aboard the Janshatabdi Express to Madgaon. The moment train left the concrete jungle of Mumbai suburbs in peeped the natural, pure and untouched beauty to the Konkan, it felt like you have moved into heaven. Firstly I had plans to put all my experience into word but latter did I realized that my vocabulary is far too poor to pen down this enormously fulfilling, exceptionally thrilling and deeply pacifying trip.

So I decided to take shelter of the Photos I have taken(all on them are taken from train only). ENJOY!!!!

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I alighted the train at Thivim around and took a 3:00pm and took a heavy Konkani lunch(you can avail wide variety of veg. also in Konkan). My back train was at about 5:30 pm in the evening and it was bang on time. Not to miss here is that Konkan railways is a engineering miracle(I think I might need another blog space to discuss it).

The best part of this trip and for the first time in all my trip came soon after before the train was approaching SawantWadi. It was just a picture perfect scene to see the sun calling it a day behind the rain soaked green coated mountain ranges. As the day fell to its end, the scene grew far more heartthrob and  dearer to share them all on this blog J .

Finally, the trip ended on Sunday afternoon with another promise made to be back next year.


Read my other travel experiences like Dandeli Jungle Safari, Kundilika River-rafting, Bhimashankar Treking, Benaras:Journey Back into Ages,Konkan Railways