Weekend getaway at Bordi, Dahanu

In the last week of October this year, we went for a weekend outing to a silent and lazy beach town of "Bordi" around 100 KMs off Mumbai in Gujarat on the "Gujarat-Maharastra Border". We reached Bordi from Mumbai in 2.5 - 3 hours by taking a train from Borivali up to Dahanu and then covered the 15KMs stretch of Dahanu - Bordi in auto-rickshaw.

We reached Bordi MTDC Beach Resort at 8.30 AM and after having breakfast headed straight to our "Beach Hut".

MTDC Beach Resort is the only place in Bordi which offers stay in the "Beach Huts". Mind you, these are no ordinary huts, but full facility studio rooms with A/c, water heater and nice clean wash rooms. The view is just mind blowing from the huts. Open the glass sliding windows and you see the beach right through.

A nice small private garden with lots of flowers and greenery.

Ample space for children to play and chase the butterflies and dragonflies that are found aplenty here. We just relaxed ourselves looking at the setting sun and listening to sounds of birds that you never get to hear in a city like Mumbai.


(The cottage where we were staying......air conditioned, but plan for 4 hours of load shedding)

The beach is not the best part here. I say so for two reasons: 1) The water is not very clean...it has this blackish tint to it (maybe because of the oil deposits) and 2) the high tide comes in for some time in late afternoon, but for most part you will have to walk a good 2-3 KMs to reach water !!!


So we decided not to go in the water and instead focus on taking pictures around the beach. We were not disappointed by the results.

The design formation of the sand caught our eyes. It was as if lot of snakes had wriggled and formed the design!!.

On the beach, we found a lot of small sized shells and crabs. Actually, tons of them.....!! Crabs had dug out holes in the sand and it felt as if one creative artist had done embroidery on sand !!

Then we saw this nice large shell. The yellow design on the shell looked almost golden in the warm light of setting sun. I brought back this shell as a souvenir from the trip!!!

Sunsets are always special and gives you a very warm feeling. Sunset at Bordi is is equally enchanting. We spent lot of time observing the sunset!! Yeah, we observed how the sun actually changes color and then slowly sets creating an illusion that it is going in the water!!

We have been to Juhu beach in Mumbai on many occasions, but I do not remember when I spent even 5 minutes observing this natural phenomenon. I guess that is why we desire for a weekend getaway where we can do all these things we don't have time to do in time boxed city life.

Apart from the beauty of place, another reason to visit Bordi is the food at MTDC. I have not eaten better konkani / malvani food anywhere else. If you are staying at MTDC, enjoy the local sea food. Just inform them what would you like to eat a few hours in advance and they will get fresh stuff just for you !! I say that is special treatment !!!!

We tried both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food - and both the variations were much beyond our expectations.


After two days of fun and a rejuvenating experience, we headed back to Mumbai.