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“It’s the second oldest municipality in the country, ” remarked CP Reddy, my driver and guide as we drove around a nondescript beach town, one of the windswept places near Vizag called Bheemili or Bheemunipatnam. I realized that I had just discovered a little piece of paradise in a small fishing hamlet on the shores of the Bay of Bengal, barely 45 minutes away from Visakhapatnam

It is the sea that greets you everywhere in the luxurious Novotel Visakhapatnam Varun Beach Hotel. Look out from your room, your breakfast table, your gym, your infinity pool and the ocean is right in front of you

There is something special about curated travel trails. They literally bring a bus load of people from different walks of life bound by a common passion together and leave them with endearing memories from an unforgettable journey

Among all the sadhus who flock here, all eyes are however on the elusive ash smeared, stark naked Naga Sadhu in Kumbh Mela. It is a sight to see several of the Naga Sadhu in Kumbh Mela where they stay in Akharas – the Niranjani Akharas and the Juna Akharas which were originally created over 1000 years ago. Yet you can find communities of Naga sadhu in Kumbh Mela only. I do hope that during the next Kumbh I would get a chance to meet and talk to them at length and understand a little bit more about this mystical sect of sadhus.