PapiKondalu - Boat Trip

Type: Boat Trip on the river Godavari
How to book: AP Tourism counters at the Godavari basin

Now my trip details.

I and my wife left from Bangalore for Vizayawada from where we along with our inlaws moved to Tadepalligudem for a night stay at our relatives. We booked a mini bus from here to a place called Pattiseema. This is one of the banks on the river Godavari.

The advantage we had was all the arrangements were made before and all we had to do was just go sit and enjoy. Well for information, the trip options can be like this.

Option 1: Rajamundry (or nearby banks) to Bhadrachalam and Back

This type of trip takes two days. On day one the boat starts early in the morning and reaches the destination by evening. The place where the boats halts is almost an hour away from the actual temple town of Bhadrachalam. So after completing a night stay and then having darshanam in the morning, the boat returns back to the source be Day two evening. A little long trip :-)

The boat trip covers, halts at all the important banks on the river, where you get to see many temples associated with the epic of SriRamayana and also quite a many scenic locations.

Option 2: Rajamundry (or nearby banks) to PaapiKondalu

This trip option only focuses on the destination PappiKondalu. So the boat starts from one of the banks near to Rajamundry. The boat goes on showing you all the important places and reaches PaapiKondalu. Once this place is crossed, the boat halts for a while at a bank and returns back.

We opted for option 2 as we did not have much time. We started at 9 am at pattiseema and were back by 9pm. The boat ride is really good. We booked a boat for only our family members. It costed us Rs.16000 including Breakfast, Lunch, Evening snacks and coffee tea supplied all time. The food was amazing. We were 22 people on the boat and thus it was really entertaining.

You also get an option to buy a ticket for Rs.500/person and get onto the normal commerical boats. Those boats are too crowded. Ofcourse you also get an option to book an AC bedroom with the view for Rs.2500 :-)

Few pictures:

At one of the starting points

The Paapi Kondalu

We asked the boat guy to stop at this place for us to play in the water for a while. Nice shores.

Now the bad part: Indians never change. Wherever we step in we pollute

So my only request to people is not to do such things.