Golden Beach Puri is Odisha’s Blue Flag beach, an 870-metre stretch on Chakratirtha Road that has held the Blue Flag eco-certification every year since October 2020. The fenced zone has paid entry, Nolia community lifeguards, changing rooms, watchtowers and a...
Astaranga Sea Beach sits on the Bay of Bengal coast in Odisha’s Prachi Valley, roughly 60 kilometres from Puri, and it is one of those places that stays with you long after the trip is over. The name comes from two Odia words — asta, meaning sunset, and ranga,...
Markandi Sea Beach is one of those rare stretches on the Odisha coast that still feels undiscovered — a quiet sweep of golden sand about 20–30 km from Berhampur in Ganjam district, with an ancient Shiva temple just off the shoreline. If crowded commercial beaches have...
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...
