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AHMEDPUR MANDVI AND DIU

Ahmedpur Mandvi is one of the finest beaches on the Gujarat shoreline. The beach is white and firm, ideal for walks,and the water perfect for swimming. A variety of Water sports options are on offer-water scooters, skiing, surfing, para sailing, speed boat trips. A highlight of Ahmedpur Mandvi is the Magico Do mar, a cottage resort offering aircon cottage rooms, pleasant lawns facing the sea, palm groves, and meals in a Nawabi period bungalow facing the gardens towards the sea. The resort offers superb fish lunches in the bungalow and shrimp dinners on the sea facing lawn.

Ahmedpur Mandvi beach

Across the bridge from Ahmedpur Mandvi, Diu island comes as a real,pleasant surprise. It lies just a few minutes offshore from the mainland of Gujarat, yet has retained the feel of an island in the Mediterranean. Nothing can quite prepare you for the treasure-trove of Portugese colonial period architecture in downtown Diu, the absolutely superb Baroque facades of churches and public buildings, the bungalows of the Christian quarter with their pastel shaded walls and truss roofs, and even the havelis of the Zampa area, which are rather European in design-trellised terraces and galleries,classical columns, broad varendahs, porticoes-then Gujarati. The clean, wide roads, the tidy sidewalks, the neat, clean beaches, the clear blue water, could be from Algrave, Greece or Italy!

Nagoa beach, Diu