Rajhans Nature Camp is an ecotourism stay run by the Odisha Forest Development Corporation on Rajhans island, a narrow sandbar where Chilika Lake flows into the Bay of Bengal near Satapada in Puri district. The island has no road, so the only way in is a motorboat...
Standing on the Odisha coast where the Mahanadi delta meets the Bay of Bengal, the Paradip Lighthouse is the landmark that tells you you have arrived in Paradip. This 40-metre RCC circular tower, built between December 1982 and March 1987 and commissioned in 1987,...
Pentha Sea Beach is a quiet, unspoiled stretch of the Bay of Bengal coastline in Rajnagar, Kendrapara district, Odisha — about 10 kilometres from Rajnagar town and roughly 50 kilometres from Kendrapara. It is one of those rare beaches that has stayed clean and...
Talsari Sea Beach is the northernmost beach of Odisha, sitting on the Odisha–West Bengal border in Balasore district where the Subarnarekha river spreads into a wide estuary before joining the Bay of Bengal. Barely 8–10 km from Digha across the border, it trades...
Paradeep Sea Beach in Jagatsinghpur, Odisha, is a wide, working-coast beach next to one of India’s busiest ports — come for sunrises, ship-watching, fresh seafood and a Marine Drive evening, not for a swim. Where the Mahanadi meets the Bay of Bengal, roughly 115...
Chandipur Sea Beach, in Odisha’s Balasore district, is one of India’s strangest natural sights. Twice a day, the sea simply leaves: at low tide, the Bay of Bengal recedes up to around 5 km, as commonly reported, exposing the ocean floor, and at high tide...
