By the time we were ready to hit the road , it was just 5.45am in the morning..Since we had to drive from Navi Mumbai side towards the western express way there was lot of traffic jams even ar that early hours around Gorbandar road..... We made our first stopover at Palghar for breakfast...there r lots of good restaurants serving hot Doshas & idlis there ....it was quite chilling and mystic around Palghar ..... Then the drive continued up to Surat( Palshana) in Gujarat, from were we took a diversion route towards Rajpipla& continued to Kewadia....Since all bookings for visit to statue of unity has to be done prior online & even slot bookings for the high speed lift travel upto the neck portion of Sardar Patel statue , from were the view of Sardar Sarovar Dam can be seen from the view point inside the statue itself, we were bit in a hurry to reach the location by the time slot alloted for us.... We stopped for lunch at Rajpipla & enjoyed the katiawadi thalli before continuing our journey to kewadia.
After reaching the base of the statue , we went around the museum displaying all information related to the construction of the statue...Now its almost time to stand in queue for the 2 high speed lift that takes people up to the viewing gallery inside the statue's body .....within seconds we were up on top of World's tallest statue..... it was very exciting to see the Sardar Sarovar Dam view from there....After a short stay we thought to come down as we had to again walk 1km to the bus stop for the bus to visit the valley of flowers that was in our package of Rs 350/- perhead... but we were unable to board the SOU buses from the stand as they were all overcrowded ...then we hired the pink auto driven by ladies to Valley of flowers , but its our bad luck that we reached there around closing time, so just couldnot go around instead we thought to wait for the Glowing Garden visit which we had booked earlier ....Only as darkness set in , The Glow Garden was illuminated...it was good but very small place ....just a few click of pics there we thought to push out to the SOU parking, where we left our vehicle ...The lazer show on Sardar Sarovar Dam was quite nice but we gave a skip to the Light & Sound Show at the SOU compound.... There r several other locations to visit at SOU like Cactus garden ,zoo , & few more sites but each place is separately priced for entry aswell camera's.....
At Glow Garden at Statue of Unity.
Overall a good experience at our first SOU visit...There r few hotels at Kewadia but its very costly , so we thought to drive off another 1 hr & take a night break at Vadodhara before we push off for Ahmedabad and Patan next morning.
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