Vijaydurg - Sindhudurg
Once
naval bases, Vijaydurg and Sindhudurg bear testimony to Maharashtra's marital
supremacy during Shivaji's regin.
Vijaydurg or Fort Victor was strengthened around the seventeenth century by
Shivaji, to whom it owes its finest features - the triple line of walls, the
numerous towers and the massive interior buildings.
Once seized by the British and renamed Fort Augustus, Sindhidurg or the Ocean
Fort at Malvan port has history etched all over.
Within its precincts are temples holding shrines of Maruti, Bhavani, Mahadeo,
Jarimai and Mahapurush, and of Shivaji - the only such shrine in the country.
As for Vijaydurg and Sindhudurg beaches, they offer the visitor one of the most
serene and beautiful coastal views in India.
Getting there : Rajapur and Kudal respectively are the nearest railheads
on Konkan Railway. Sindhudurg by road is 510 kms. and Vijaydurg 425 kms. from
Mumbai vis the Goa highway.
