A joyful day at the beach...

Visitors from IHM, Gurdaspur, Punjab & IITTM, Nellore with Team Gangapatnam Beach Tour

The students and faculty of Institute of Hotel Management, Gurdaspur, paid a visit to our beach with their host college, Indian Institute of Travel and Tourism Management, Nellore (Southern Campus) in February. We had a very fruitful and informative discussion on how to develop our village and beach as a tourism destination.

We thank, IITTM,  Nellore for the opportunity, indeed it was very thoughtful on their part to think of our village and Gangapatnam beach as a destination that has the potential to develop into a major tourism and beach destination.

For the students from Gurdaspur, a land locked city, to come to the Bay of Bengal and feel the sea itself was an unforgettable experience. Some of them were coming to a sea for the first time.Naturaly, the excitement was sky high. Our Team GangaPatnam Beach Tour, who know the beach very well guided them skillfully, ensuring the safety and answering their questions, which naturally were many about the sea and the life in and around.

The group was awestruck by the beautiful and calm backwaters of the Buckingham Canal and encouraged us to develop water sports & boating activity there in the beach utilising the twin advantage that of the sea and the backwater. 

Prof. Fr. MA Windey

The Sunday Beach

Picture of our beautiful beach taken by Raghu our GBT team member on a Sunday afternoon. 

Turtles of Gangapatnam

Olive ridley turtles that swim up shore, several times an year, to lay as many as 136 Ping Pong ball sized eggs on shore. The danger is not just for the eggs, the turtle itself can be carried off and end up as someones dinner while she is laying her eggs. The eggs thus lying about under the beach sand can be crushed by the beach goers, swept away at high tide, dug up by hungry wild dogs and even stolen by poachers.

The survival of the Vulnerably listed turtle and her eggs are difficult unless we, humans, help them a little. At GangaPatnam Village and in nearby areas Tree Top NGO along with the state Forest department has taken many measure to conserve Turtles and their eggs.

It's amazing the way the turtles swim back to the same beach where she was born to lay her own eggs. Let us try and make them feel at home ensuring our own and their own survival inspite of global warming, rising water-levels, less beach areas etc..

Beach View

Prof. M.A. Wendy's YouTube Channel has a beautiful video of the Gangapatnam Beach.

The Beautiful Gangapatnam Beach

Contact Us

Windey-Vivekananda Library & Youth Club 

beachtourgangapatnam@gmail.com

Girish : +91 9885701417

Ramesh: +91 9133742488

YouTube Channel: Gangapatnam Beach Tour

About us

Windey-Vivekananda library &youth club

Village Reconstruction Organisation (https://www.vroindia.org/), founded by Prof. Fr. Michael Anthony Windey, a Jesuit, in the year 1969 to provide relief to the villagers who were devastated by the disastrous floods in the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh has put in place a detailed plan for the promotion of tourism in the coastal village to educate and empower the villagers with an alternative way of  income and life. Unfortunately, after the death of the visionary Belgian Professor Priest, whose initial plan for the beach tourism included a simple, yet, well provided for, room in each chosen village home to accommodate the tourists who would visit for the Beach and volunteer tourism, fell apart and the facilities the humanist built is lying wasted.

Windey-Vivekananda Library & Youth Club is trying to revive Prof. Windey’s Tourism plan.