TOURS from KOLKATA - DIGHA -(Day 2)-- FUN FUN FUN

-(Day 2)--25th December 2010 -- 5:30 A.M.

The alarm went on and on and we kept silencing it. We were too tired to move out of our cozy warm beds. We called each other at the early morning and postponed watching the sunrise for the day next.

But ultimately I could not sleep anymore and got up by 6:00. Everyone else wanted to sleep, so I got fresh and went up to the roof of the hotel. The roof has good view of the main road as well the road towards the sea. I found that the beach was quite close by, so I hopped into my shoes and went to the beach alone. The early morning sun was very refreshing. I don’t remember after how many years was I looking at the rising SUN, that too at 6:30 A.M.

I went at shore and clicked a few pics of the sea and the sun. The sound of the morning sea ... the cool breeze... people around.. its quite nostalgic. I spent nearly an hour there.I started feeling hungry and so went back to the hotel. All were still in their cozy beds, but it was about time everyone got up.. One by one everyone started to brush up and get fresh.

We had our breakfast in the hotel dining hall. Aloo dum & Puri. The cook was good. By 9:30 - 10:00 we all went towards the sea. We started walking from Old Digha beach towards New Digha Beach. The sea was already swelling and had reached the rocks at rocks at Old Digha.

After few photo sessions, I handed over my things to my friend who preferred walking with her sis and mom on the pavement, and went out with the boys (four of them) in the sea. They walked with me for quite a while, but the sea water was getting into their blood and they started becoming fidgety to jump full into the water.

The water was up to my shins and I was walking quite slow, so the boys got ahead and started jumping in the cold water with a ball. Water splashing all over and getting drenched to their bones. As we were nearing New Digha Beach , there was less of the natural sea and more of the human sea. New Digha was FULL of PEOPLE .Rushing, pushing, gushing to jump into the sea.

After walking a few miles, I moved out on the pavement and in that sea of people everywhere I lost sight of my friend. Ultimately I found them sitting on a bench near a DAAB WALA.

The boys were having a lot of fun in the water, and we were having fun trying to locate them in the sea. And then they were lost!! Two people trying to find the other two. After spending nearly three/ four hours by the sea, the boys ultimately came out, hungry (and they found each other).

We went back to the hotel in an open motor van (tuk tuk gari - named by us), jerking and bumping on the road - but it was fun in the open air. Unfortunately we were all tired and so were not singing. We had a good bath and went for lunch at the canteen. This time it was as dinner - full plate rice, dal, aloo fry, chochori (mixed veg), and prawn and tel koi and again ilish ( Diff ppl, diff preference).

After Lunch, we were not able to move anymore.. Oh No! Not at all .. we were too tired and too heavy to go out anywhere though we did have some programmes. We tried to sleep for half an hour as a Trekker (small jeep) had been booked for 4 P.M, to take us to "TALSARI".

The road towards "TALSARI" was good, and I was quite surprised to find that within a few minutes we were running in the state of ODISA. It is a pleasant place, and in the evening it was looking quite comfertable and cozy place. Though we could not see the sea there, the boats were already shored. When the tide comes in, in the morning the fishermen sail in these boats to get their catches. There were many dead fishes and crabs lying dead on the sand. There was very small river if you can call it a river , where we jumped in to cross and reach the sand hill beyond. Thoug it was getting dark now, we were buzy doing pranks until aunty called us up to leave.

There are not much facilites in the area, but there are small shops around where one can have a good tea and pakoras. And also a "SULABH" is open in one of the corners.

After TALSARI the driver suggested we go to UDAIPUR beach. So we climed back in the trekker and off we went. By the time we reached the beach in the dark night, we were half filled with sand, rising from the back tyres of the vehicle.

UDAIPUR beach at NIGHT -- There is nearly nothing there at night. Just nothing. A few small shanties is all that was there at night. Not even a tubelight. And it was Oh! So Wonderful!

We were not able to see anything - Nothing , It was so silent, except for the sea ........ the sound of the sea seemed to call us from the dark. We could hear the sea and make out how near it was. How silent the night was and how free the air was. We decided immediately that we would come here the next day morning and spend all the time that was left before we leave tomorrow in this silent beach.

We went back happy and spent some time at the Old Digha rocks again and back to the hotel for dinner of Fried rice and Chicken curry. We had been eating since the first day we reached Digha , and we were more than full to eat anything and were trying to push it off in each others plates. But YES!! We managed to eat them all :)