orissa tales - part2
Day-3 - To Gopalpur. We had early breakfast at Ananya resorts and started towards the beach town of Gopalpur. Enroute we went to the famed Chilka lake. We boarded a private ferry that takes us to the Kali temple in the island right in centre of the chilka lake. Sanja was all enthu to spot the dolphins. We had to tell all white lies saying the dolphins are there but we wont be able to see them in this part of the lake. The lake is clean for starters but then again we humans are a nuisance here. The water surrounding the Kali temple is filled up with algae and all sorts of plastic waste. The temple itself is very dirty with slippery floors , flowers kumkum strewn everywhere. We dont know how to protect our places period. I was totally disgusted with the people's attitude here. Eating stuffs and throwing the waste into waters. Thus we completed 3 hours of boat ride. S, me and Sanja ended up with a headache from the hot sun and salty water drive :(. We had the food in the onl