September 23, 2007 was a day to be remembered. It was a lazy & rainy Sunday morning worthy of spending as much time as possible in bed. However, we, couple of adventure & nature loving junctionites, decided to spend the day in a different way. We decided to drive our way to Gadiara.
Gadiara, situated at confluence of Ganga, Damodar & Rupnarayan, is approximately 100 km from Kolkata. We decided to travel by car & started at 10:30 am in the morning. The team was Indranil, Syamantak, Chiranjib along with their family & myself. We drove down Kona expressway to NH4 & took a left turn at Bagnan. The greenery along the way was soothing to the eyes & quite a welcome change from the concrete jungle of the city. It was raining all the way & it must have tested the driving skills of Indranil & Symantak. Of course, they passed with flying colours. We reached our destination at 1:00 pm.
Immediately after reaching there, we thought that we had landed at a wrong place. The sight of sea, which we didn’t expect made us worried. We realized that the river is so wide that it appears like a sea. The sight made us jump out of the car & it was absolutely breath taking. The vast expanse of the river, breeze from the river, the fishing boats and the sight of locals wading through waist-deep water to net baby-shrimps made us forget city life. We decided to walk along the bank of the river & it was very special, indeed. All those poems & writings about nature’s own beauty which we used to read in our school days were live in front of us.
Suddenly we realized that we have already walked for 2 hours & our appetite was at its best. That drove us to the Rupnarayan tourist lodge where we made prior bookings. The lunch was grand, especially with freshly cooked Ilish (Hilsa) & country chicken. After finishing lunch we decided to go for a fresh round of visit of the river, but this time riding on local van rickshaws.
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