Today we set out to explore the Ancient Coastal City of Dwarka, A City with a rich cultural and religious history related to Lord Krishna. After a heavy buffet breakfast at the resort our 1st visit was to Mahadev Temple with a big statue of Lord Mahadev in its courtyard. There were a lot of cows, pilligrims, pigeons, houseflys and one cute barn owl noticed by us in this visit to this ancient temple. After the Darshan we headed to Bet Dwarka, an island where the current and only mode of transport to and fro was indigenously made fishing trawlers used for people transport, when we reached the jetty we could see both the blue Arabian ocean and the colorful human ocean of which we were also a part of, waiting to travel to Bet Dwarka, usually used to personal space in metropolitan cities, we for once enjoyed being a part of this chaos.
In Bet we visited a temple know to be the residence of Lord Krishna and the one and only temple in the world with Lord Hanuman and his son, according to legend i heard from the driver of our rickshaw, although Hanuman ji was a Brahmachari, his son was manifested from the droplets of his perspiration. Then we left Bet Dwarka basking in the intense sun rays which we Banglorians found a bit on the intensive side.
Our next and final visit was to the main lord Krishna temple in the heart of Dwarka. Onroute we had lunch at a dhaba with some finger licking good masalas and daals and also had a chance to sneak peak a beach onroute that had some many people enjoying the water sports, although a bit less orderly than benches of Goa still it was good to see people enjoy it to the hilt.
There was an infections enthusiasm in the air so as to say. Once we parked close to the main temple, to get to the temple we had to again swim through the ocean of people from all over our Incredible India, this is where our IFMR vests came in handy as were were able to stick as a group in a crowd. Here we were guided by one of Mr.Goyal’s contacts who was a guide and explained the history of this temple.
After a fulfilling Darshan of all the deities of the temple we exited and drank hot masala doodh from the street, most of our phone batteries were dead due to heavy usage during the day. We returned back to the resort and settled down after an amazing day of feeling the pulse of our great country found in it’s people, in its soil, in it’s air, in it’s cities, in it’s forests, in it’s flora and fauna.