Photos of Famous Diu Beach, India

Diu is an Island and literary meaning of the word is dweap or diu mean an Island. It was liberated from Portuguese on 19th December, 1961 along with Goa and Daman .It is believed that Diu was ruled by the great demon king Jallandhar. Lord Vishnu killed him with his Sudarshan Chakra. According to historical evidences, Diu was known as Jallandhar Ksshetra during Satyug. The temple of Jallandhar is still found in Diu. Diu is spread in an area of 38.8 square kms and climate of Diu is cool and dry. September to July is the best period for visiting Diu. Average rainfall is 700 mm per annum.Distance from different major cities is shown below.

Veraval 90 kms, Sasangir 120 kms, Bhavnagar 215kms, Rajkot 295 kms, Vadodara 595 kms, Daman 675 kms, Ahmedabad 495 kms, Mumbai 980 kms

Our Journey Details:

Just to give an idea to future tourists, a brief account of our journey from Delhi to Diu is presented here. We booked flight of AIr India from Delhi to Ahmedabad. For onward journey, we had train tickets from Ahmedabad to Dwarika. After reaching Dwarika, we took Dwarika Municipality's bus that charged Rs 60 to Bhet Dwarika & other religious places in between Dwarika & Bhet Dwarika and back to Dwarika. It was approx. 5-6 hrs journey. Next day we left by an AC Tavera jeep that was booked from Dwarika to show us the places of interest between Dwarika & Junagarh and further take us to Sasan Gir Forest, Diu and back to Verawal showing us Somnath temple. Somnath temple is just 5 km from Verawal. One has to travel to Verawal to catch a train to Ahmedabad. Tavera was booked for 3 days and charges for the same were Rs 6000 for three days. We chose hotel 'Paramount" to stay in Diu. It costed Rs 1500 for one day for two persons. After travelling to different place as mentioned above, we got back to Ahmedabad to get a flight in the morning at 8.00 PM to Delhi

Places of tourist's interest:

Nagoa Beach :
Its a semi circle beach and most of photographs shown in this hub are from nagoa Beach.

Panikotha-Fortim Do Mar is famous for shooting of bollywood movie "KAYAMAT".

Ghoghla Beach is another famous beach in Diu and activities such as
swimming, sunbathing, parasailing, surfing etc. may be enjoyed here.

Place near Diu:

One can visit famous Somnath Temple that is located near Verawal. This temple is one of the 12 most sacred shive shrines in india.Toursists coming from Gujarat have the choice to visit Gir Forest. It is about 40 minutes drivefrom Somnath. Gir forests is the most the only home of the Asiatic Lions.