The delightful thing about luxury train journey is that one remain,s closely rooted even as the earth beneath you begins to fly & so on a Wednesday of the year in afternoon one can choose to go to Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji station, travelling your way through the milling crowds to where a shining metallic vision in royal blue awaits you the glorious rail viman the Deccan Odyssey that will take you on a seven day holiday of the Konkan.
Some among Maharashtra's most pleasant terrain is hidden here red subsoil earth, the wind blowing through the scalelike trees, dense landscapes flaunting agricultural produce beaches are sharp, the water itself like a glistening sheet of sparkling silver. Clean healthy smells hang in the air, the ambience is charmingly rural buffalo sheds, bundles of hay in very large courtyards, coconut branches drying in the sun the uninterrupted roar of the sea It is a matter of extraordinarily irony that while the stress bringing cities of Maharashtra are written about in overweening prose in every possible tourism brochure, her delectable countryside is largely ignored. Perhaps the Deccan Odyssey will play its part in changing that.
Like its counterpart in Rajasthan, the Palace on Wheels, the Deccan Odyssey is truly sumptuous 21 air conditioned carriages containing 44 regular luxury suites, four Presidential suites, a spacious conference room, bar car, business centre, foreign exchange facilities, 24 hour room service, and a health spa with steam, gymnasium and beauty parlour, plasma television and a reading room.
Besides, the train boasts two delightful restaurants, looked after by the Taj Group of Hotels. could opt for the continental fare, but then you would lose out on the deliciously desi Maharashtrian bhojan made singular by the liberal use of coconut, cashew and kokam as in the papletchi aamti (pomfret curry) and bhajanachi vatana aamti (sprouted peas curry). Then there are bhakris, pithlas, and rassas, the usal paav, sabudana khichdi, masaale bhaat and puran-polis.
Some among Maharashtra's most pleasant terrain is hidden here red subsoil earth, the wind blowing through the scalelike trees, dense landscapes flaunting agricultural produce beaches are sharp, the water itself like a glistening sheet of sparkling silver. Clean healthy smells hang in the air, the ambience is charmingly rural buffalo sheds, bundles of hay in very large courtyards, coconut branches drying in the sun the uninterrupted roar of the sea It is a matter of extraordinarily irony that while the stress bringing cities of Maharashtra are written about in overweening prose in every possible tourism brochure, her delectable countryside is largely ignored. Perhaps the Deccan Odyssey will play its part in changing that.
Like its counterpart in Rajasthan, the Palace on Wheels, the Deccan Odyssey is truly sumptuous 21 air conditioned carriages containing 44 regular luxury suites, four Presidential suites, a spacious conference room, bar car, business centre, foreign exchange facilities, 24 hour room service, and a health spa with steam, gymnasium and beauty parlour, plasma television and a reading room.
Besides, the train boasts two delightful restaurants, looked after by the Taj Group of Hotels. could opt for the continental fare, but then you would lose out on the deliciously desi Maharashtrian bhojan made singular by the liberal use of coconut, cashew and kokam as in the papletchi aamti (pomfret curry) and bhajanachi vatana aamti (sprouted peas curry). Then there are bhakris, pithlas, and rassas, the usal paav, sabudana khichdi, masaale bhaat and puran-polis.
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