Road Trip - Konkan Beaches

Planned 3 days ahead on what to do for the big X'mas weekend and a good friend also leaving for USA early next month so decided to head down south to the beaches with his dog named Kasper

Day 1:
Started at 3 am so that we get empty roads and reach early to the first destination which was Dapoli. Around 300 KMS from Mumbai, Dapoli is a small town with beaches namely Murud, Kurde and Harnai 10 Kms away from it. To reach Dapoli you have to take NH17 and take a right turn from Khed town which looks like a diversion and then drive through the hills for 30 Kms to reach Dapoli.

Murud: Super white sand and water is clean which makes you go in without a second thought (ie until and unless you don't like water and the same sentence will be repeated in the next blog also). Here you can go for Dolphin Spotting, wind surfing and speed boat at a reasonable cost.

Karde: It is the empty cousin of Murud beach and driving to that place is pain in the ass as the roads are bad but reaching there you feel like you deserve that drive. There are lots of places to stay near the beach which looked quite good and neat. More of a family area and away from human settlement.

Had breakfast and Lunch just next to the beach.

Around 3 pm we started driving back and stopped on the way to shop for Cashew nuts which are cheap and good compared to Mumbai (as my mom told me).