Puri Sea Beach

Puri is a perfect destination for religious, fun-loving, nature-loving, food darings everyone.While our religious older folks in the family can discover their soul food in the premises of the historic Puri Jagannath Temple.Our kids can enjoy the puri shoreline. You name the element for a vacation and puri has it.That to pocket-friendly .

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This temple holds testimony to the incredible architecture of the 12th century. There are many fascinating tales associated with the temple and the establishment of the three deities Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra.

Puri Jagannath is one of the four dham (Rameswaram, Dwarka, Puri, Badrinath,).Lord Jagannath is the avatar of Lord Vishnu in this century. It is believed that Lord Vishnu takes his bath in Rameshwaram, gets dressed in Dwarka, have his food in puri and meditates in Badrinath. So you can enjoy all the mouth-watering sustenance offered to Lord Jagannath in Puri.

There is 56 types of delicacies offered to lord Jaganath daily and around 100,000 devotees enjoy the Mahaprasad daily.

Puri Sea Beach

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In the bay's stretch of Bay of Bengal. Puri Sea beach is one of its own kind.

The Sunrise or the sunset, the roaring waves, the gentle wind simply makes you feel heavenly. The sea waves wash away all your stress. Once you are on the beach it will be hard for you to come back.All these elements of nature will mesmerize you for sure.

You can also take a ride in the marine drive that is the roadway joining the puri beach with the Chandra Bhaga beach of Konark. You can have a feel of a foreign trip on this road for sure.

There are many activities for your kids on the beach too

1. Riding the camel

2. Making sand castle

3. Playing the beach ball

4. Enjoying the waves.

5. Visiting the naturecamp

Please note that the sand on the beach sand is quiteslippery. It called as the Chora bali. When the waves come it washes away the sand under your legs quickly. If you are not careful enough you may lose your balance.

Sand Art in the Puri Beach

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You can also grab a chance to have a look at the creativity of the sand artists.

If you are lucky, then you can have the chance to look at the work of Padma Shri Sudarshan Patnaik.

Shopping

You can buy beautiful home decorations made up of sea shell. You need to implement your bargaining skills.

How to reach Puri?

Puri is a very well connected holiday destination. It is just 2 hour's journey from the state capital of Odisha Bhubaneswar.

Via Road you can take a car or cab and reach puri from Bhubaneswar in 2 hours.

There are several trains available to reach Puri as well.

Where to stay in Puri?

There are hotels of all ranges available in Puri. You can choose your hotel near the sea beach or near the temple as per your choice. There is a wide range of deals available in trivago.

Food and transport

While the vegetarians can enjoy the Mahaprasad and local delicacies, the non-vegetarians can also find a wide range of choice of fresh seafood like sea fish, prawns,crabs.

You can choose the battery-operated Auto to travel within puri. Ola and Uber are also available.