1 March
We start today’s adventure with yet another 30km auto-rickshaw ride back to Ratnagiri railway station for our last leg on the Konkan railway, it was  a three hour journey to Mangao on the Mandovi Express through 243km’s of the most scenic part of our Konkan journey.

Train snaking along the Konkan Coast

View from the train

From Mangao the next section was quite tricky to organise due to language difficulties, it involved a two hour car journey tracking a river bed and densely forested hills the size of Welsh ones to our final destination of Murud. It was a tough long day of travel capped off with issues of super bad accommodation, a dirty prison cell might best describe it, so we had to move on with another 15km journey, late into the night before we finally came to rest.