Travelling is good way to know world. Since we have started homeschooling somehow could not arrange any field trip for children but saurashtra trip this diwali has given good chance to explore other part of our Gujarat.
They are too little to understand historical importance of Somnath or religious importance of Dwarka...they enjoyed it as just a different place and huge temples. They are fond of Krishna’s stories and Narsinh Maheta’s Jal-kamal….so Ash felt excited by visiting Dwarka-Bet Dwarka as Krishna’s city and Junagadh as Narsinh Maheta’s. When we visited Damodar kund…She reminded me my fav.- Gir taleti ne kund damodar tya mahetaji nahava jaay….Junagadh’s Uparkot has surprised her most…she wanted to explore Adi-kadi ni vav & Ra’navghan no kuvo more but climbing Girnar has made us disabled for it.
Upto Jamnagar …they have got experience living in Dharamshala,Ashram,Guest House. Have seen people’s faith or blind faith at religious places and diwali rush at such places. Saurashtra’s fafda-ganthiya-jalebi stalls every street. Groundnut fields on the way. Different taste of water at different place.They experienced what is high heat – when return from Bet-dwarka found water in bottle was boiling and bottle’s shape changed due to too much heat. Children were surprised when they see a sadhu walking fast in reverse! “Ahi nat-jat na bhed rakhva ma aavta nathi”- have to explain Ash when she read such instruction at some eating place. Shown and explained Ash ‘Paliya’ found almost at every village but could not remember any story.
Narara islandwas a most interesting spot for Ash. Upto now she has seen corals in pic. or movie…here she found different kind of corals of various colours. Sea cucumber ,sea flower,sea grapes, sea worms,crabs, different fishes along with her fav. puffer & star fish and Octopus- everything live and in touch! My little nature-lover just got crazy here. For Megh getting wet was biggest fun.
Next day visited Khijadiya Bird sanctuary. Have seen flamingo,stork and other birds near Porbandar and at salt fields near Narara too…but visiting this place itself was beautiful experience. Ash carefully listened forest officer about different residencial and migrated birds and their habitate and was missing binacular at such place. As here birds can have salty water and sweet water both kind of habitate Khijadiya is one of the rich bird sanctuary. We have found a nilgai and deers too.
Then on the way to Dhangdhra we visited Morbi. Children enjoyed lot at ‘Zulto Pul’ doing jumping. Next day Ash was very excited about visiting Rann (desert). When she came to know this desert was once a part of Arabian sea …it clicked many questions…left pending to answer until we reach home. Forest officer there gave her binacular. She found cracked earth and open landscape but could not found sand dune as she expected with the name of Rann. Randomly left boats at some places has given her proof that during monsoon this palce is full of water and upto december it becomes dry. Visited fields of salt. Found hundreds of asiatic wild ass. On Discovery have seen running Zebras in African jungles but watching this beautiful and powerful rare animal running at open land is amazing experience.
Our village was the last stop and children were very happy as they are going to live in village for few days. Visited farms and seen how they get rice. Visited village dairy and enjoyed riding on camel-cart. Meeting relatives and experiencing village life was great fun for them. They visited Kumbhar Vas. Ash taken photographs.
After returning she has question do people visit our Surat like we visited other cities? As we do not have any famous temple,fort,palace,jungle or even a dolls museam!
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