Passing through Godavari touching hills – Papikonda Boat Tour
When we are fed up with our daily routine, we opt for going on vacation and touring other places. That place may be surrounded by water or thick forest in contrast to the concrete jungle where we are living and also a spiritual destination. But there is one tour in Andhra Pradesh where we can enjoy both waters and forests by boat tourism, we can complete our tour trip including spiritual destination and that is none other than PapiKondalu, situated in Bhadrachalam district, another Telugu state Telangana.
Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation along with some other private boat tourism operators run pacakages for viewing the scenic beauty of River Godavari whereas ticket booking would be at boat stations. Papikondalu are three in number situated like a wall in the midst of holy river Godavari, nearly 100 KM far from . Every Tourist who visits Papikondalu by boat tourism can enjoy scenic beauty. Tour operators provide breakfast, vegetarian lunch with mineral water to the tourists.
Journey starts at 7:30 AM from to Pattiseema revu/ Polavaram revu/ Purushothapatnam revu to check in Boat. After getting into the boat tourists can witness the Polavaram Project Site, which is a civil engineering wonder during Papikondalu tour trip. Bhadrachalam is a historic spiritual tourist spot that can be visited by boat tourism. Ticket booking can be done at as the price band ranges from Rs 1,000 to 1200 for children and adults for one complete day for ordinary boats and extra amount should be paid for air conditioned boats in single day tour package.
Telangana Tourism Department operates a Road cum River Cruise tour package for four days starting from Paryatak Bhavan. Tour package tariff @ Rs.6499/- Adult and for Child @ Rs.5199/. The charges include Non-A/c Transportation with Non-A/c Accommodation, Non-A/c Boating & Food. But first and last day dinner is not included as tourists should arrange for themselves.