Monday, September 15, 2008

Papikondalu - Single stop for all

When i searched for papikondalu, Everything Google has to show is about its tourism and sacred places around. This sacred place/tourist destination has got its dark side as well (may be brighter side to Playboys) - I am only going to discuss about the dark side as you can find ample number of resources about its beauty and nobody will dare to deny its beauty.
I booked tickets for a boat travel from Kunavaram ( also called as SriRamaChandraPuram) to Papikondalu. On the back side of ticket were 5 instructions, one out of them was "You are not allowed to Booze/smoke while on travel" . So boat started. I was right on the top of cabin room. From the top, i observed many people openly smoking (Though it is very common, we still have to accept the fact that few people might be alergitic to smoking and they are in the middle of water).
It was a sunny day and i couldn't stay on top very long. I came down, i parked myself infront of cabin room and observed lot of boozing inside cabin roon and cabin crew serving them chicken and all special snacks. It was all GOOD and i was not enough surprised seeing all these. It was afternoon after a halt and i moved infront of boat, which is rear end of boat. I was requested to move back to same place because another gang was boozing there. I felt OK now. And now the real game, Boat owner has asked both these gangs to share the cabin room. Both the gangs had enough drink and they don't want to share. One emotional guy from a gang started shouting at other person, " I want to share with you but subah ye geda kuch jyaada baath kiya " . There was little argument on the boat. Now i felt bit WORRIED. Of course the argument didn't last long. If the argument strengthens, who should be held responsible for this loss?

Playboy's guide -

-> If you want to enjoy boozing on boat. Call the owner of boat directly and offer them Rs 200 more than ticket price and order what ever you want.
-> If you want to enjoy with your girl friend or anybody, take her on boat till Kollur. You will have cottages available in Kollur. No police riding nothing because police will get scared to reach that place. No harm to you ofcourse. Next day you can find some other boat to take you to your destination.
-> If you come from Rajahmundry, you will have A/C rooms in boats and you can do what ever you want there.

Boat owners - Just for the sake of money, don't allow many gangs to enjoy on boat. It would be good, if you just allow single gang and disallow them to smoke in public. If any gang has got huge number of people, redirect them to booka boat only for them so that they will write their own destiny. You cannot do all these things in the middle of many families because Holy Dignity of that place will be lost.

It was all about entertainment, now about the blind tourism ministry-

This is such a great tourist destination, which lacks very basics.

-> Single road ( it can accomodate only one vehicle) with lot of hurdles in the middle, your vehicle will definitely hate you at the end.
-> It is all naturally grown up, no body really cared to make this tourist destination more attractive. You will not even find much police around (You will find naxals around. Lap of naxals is the safest place than police - one localite has to say).
-> Not much transport arrangement/hotels from tourism ministry.

Don't say that this is naxal's place and you can't improve tourism here. No Naxal will stop you from development and at the same time, this development will help tribals around Papikondalu.

Beautiful kollur island and few huts visible :-)

7 comments:

SaTtY said...
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SaTtY said...

I think the whole area will be submerged once the Polavaram project is done so I don't see why they will develop that area now? I got to agree with you about the beauty of that place and also about not developing that area as a tourist spot but ain't it the reason why it is still like that otherwie over commercialisation would have made it into one more run of the mill tourist places a la Ooty, all said and done it's a great place to take a holiday.

Sudhie said...

Though Polavaram project got green signal, this project is not going to wipe off tourist spots completely. May be 50% of beauty will be preserved :-)

I agree people will contaminate environment on the name of development. But few basic things like transport, accommodation..

ABHILASH SIDD said...

biggrin

SaTtY said...

@ tp

are you sure about the 50% part? heard that the whole papi kondalu range will be sumberged once polavaram is commissioned.

Sudhie said...

@v
Yes i heard it from boat cabin. and also Tourism is not Papikondalu alone. There are few other villages as well around.

@abhi

slapr

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