Just A try to Jumble up all the moments of trip
It was 22nd july 2014 I was with my mom or say best friend suman and all our igate friends
it was lunch time and on the table i was wandering from whose tiffin to start and suddenly
rishi my one of the besty asked me "Pratik Idhar aao " ( thats how he call every one and believe me every one gets scared when calls this way and so was my reaction at the same time )
Well jokes apart.
"We are coming to dwarika this weekend and planing to go to somnath as well"
This exact words made me forget the awkward feeling sitting among the employees of the company of which you not the part anymore.
ya sure lets plan out the trip but before i could think of any plan he and the e smart girl ( surbhi ) had already looked the bus timings and everything . Happiness rolled over me . Reasons were obvious
firstly my friends were coming near to my place
secondly we were going to a trip again.
With the plans of doing this and that on the trip i made my journey way to home.
Day 1 :
25th July 2014 5:45 a.m. I was standing on saat-rasta ( seems a little wierd but thats what its name is in my home town Jamnagar)
waiting to get the bus to dwarika. Luck was by my side and fortunately i got the A.C. sleeping bus to dwarika.
The very first thing i did sitting in bus i called my buddy ( Popularly the coding king of our group )
Kunal sarkar to inquire where did they reached and surprisingly they were still on the way.
With ear plugs on and Cool breeze of a.c. blowing on my head i continued my journey or i can say beginning of my trip.
Somehow on the way i woke up two of my bestest buddies Mihir and Bhavik just to share my excitement and say " Hey I am about to reach dude and miss you." ( I said something else too which cant be disclosed here )
Last 1 km away from the destination and Phone ringing ( for me ringing means vibrating i always keep me phone on silent )
it was kunal again " Hey Pratik we got the rooms booked in Hotel Tirthraj "
Finally i reached wandering which side to go for hotel tirthraj.
and on my way i managed to inquire about dwarika darshan bus and also bus to somnath which made comfort level of trip easier.
Room no. 14 and 13 ( E school 's room )
i went in met kunal and Inzi ( i know sound's a new name but dats what we call rishi ) & E school ( Surbhi ) were getting ready
The tension came when i heard Inzi saying " Pratik Give me 10 minutes " but this time they were actually 10 minutes .
The trip started with our booking for dwarika darshan which was at 2 p.m. sharp.
We prefered to walk by to the temple. on the way i made the brief description about what i had seen before.
the moment we were walking cows started running from the thing which surprised was surbhi also going behing them.
reason was rishi told him you cant sit on cow's back . the very obvious question from me and kunal all girls have brains in their knees ? or she was the special one ?? lol..
Finally we reached temple . As always we snapped few of the photos submitted our belongings and entered the temple.
All the three of us instructed " Surbhi If at all you cant find us plz come near this shiv temple ok ? clear ? "
And then the moment awaited when door of main mandir opened with the chaints of "Jay Dwarikdhish "
we all saw the divine look of lord krishna and met at the pre decided place.
Thanks to Lord Krishna we found Surbhi in no time. we went to each and every place of temple.
and recollecting the mobiles and bag ( first thing we did took the photos )
On the way to Gomti Ghat but breakfast was the first thing they decided.
Tea , coffee ( for me ), khaman dhokla i could only see them as it was my fast ( saturday ).
At last we were on the ghats of gomti and before we could see the wave far away from us.
the wave near by made all four of us salty and wet.
I can see the highest level of joy and happiness on all our faces.
Even my words cant describe how beautiful that moment was and not even the pictures which we clicked after that.
we slowly covered the whole ghat which included giving food to the fish, clicking pictures with wave, posing in s.r.k. style.
Looking at us anyone will say did you jumped in to that ocean ??
Above all this we reached a place which i call marine drive of dwarika we sat for almost half an hour which included undoubtedly the photo clicks( Mostly selfies ) and feeling the tides and ebbs of ocean.
Time was running through and places to cover were many , we reached Bhadkeswar Mahadev Temple and uttering the Mahamrutinjay mantra we came at back side of temple where you can see only one thing Ocean.
The Beauty of that view , The Feel of brizzles , It was just none of us wanted to go away from there but the 15 minutes time bound and the fear of catching the bus without having lunch convinced us to leave and procced for lunch.
when Inzi said " Yaar i think Khana achi jagah pe khana chahiye " we immediatly went to guruprena restaurent right in front of us.
The Best Part of our trip was Rishi was known by all the restaurent people to put his phone on charging LOL.
Done with the lunch we managed to catch the bus at 2 p.m. ( Again Rishi kept that 10 min to 10 min which he told while going back to room Sorry rishi i know you want to kill me LOL)
As the bus started me and rishi took out our glares and believe me we kept it on the whole journey except we were inside the temple.
The very first place we saw "Rukhmani temple"where we heard the story behind the temple far away from dwarika and also the sad part couldnt click many photos beacuse of the rain.
The next stop was "Nageshwar Temple" ( one of the 12 jyotiirlingh of lord shiva ) . we peacefully visited temple , had parikarma, also photo session with huge statue of lord shiva which interrupted with the feeling that we were the only four left to enter the bus which made us run like anything and entering the bus like a innocent kid.LOL
Few Kms away and we were at "Gopi tadav" . we visited atmost 4 temples which included more then 20 photo clicks by us.
( Pratik And Rishi Still Wearing their Shades )
And Then came the last but not the least place in our dwarika darshan "Bet Dwarika"
we were supposed to go by boat which was a journey of half an hour. but seeing the wave of the boat and the water all the four of us started om namah sivay om namah sivay ( specially me and surbhi ) The fear which we felt was not more then the fear of jumping from a cliff of mountain. As always lots of photo clicks and somewhat P.J's of surbhi we managed to reach our destination.
Sad part is surbhi got so happy she jumped off the boat and BANG!!! she hurted herself . she couldnt walk properly.
But kehte he jo hote he ache ke liye hota he. This situation made us hire a ricksaw to the temple.
Well say it tragedy or luck but since morning everything happned at perfect time and Iam mentioning it late because the moment we four had prayer in the mandir and procceded the doors got closed.
Now the question was whether to go Hanuman dandi which is 5 km away or not ? we will be able to catch the bus ? what if we miss it ? we will be able to reach ? with lots of ques in mind.
we just ended up saying this to ricksawala " Bhaiya Hanuman Dandi jana aur wapas aana he jaldi se jaldi "
Slow rain, silent road & the four friends a memorable time.
Doing a quick prayer and clicking few selfies LOL . We hurried to catch the boat.
Believe me this time the boat ride wascompletly different. By saying different i mean we were sailing at 45 degree.
This time rishi was also praying with me and surbhi "Hey Bhagwan Sahi salamat poch jaye " .
Aur Bhagwan ne humari sunn li !!
We reached back safely but one more surprise was waiting for us
We missed the bus!!
But as I said call it a tragedy or luck we immediatly got ride to mithapur and the moment we reached mithapur cab for dwarika was waiting for 4 of us.
It was 7:45 p.m. we reached dwarika and with empty wallets we went to ATM.
After a long chat at rooms we decided to have the dinner at the same place we had lunch.
The moment we entered the place . i saw rishi " bhaiya phone charging pe rakhna he LOL "
( I must say we got bestest photos clicked because of his phone )
We somehow managed to reach our rooms by 9:45 p.m. as i was excited to see Comedy Nights with kapil.
but by the time show got over every one slept surbhi in her room and this two guys in front of me.
As we decided to attend the morning aarti. Setting the alarm clock by 4:45
I slept peacefully.
