Tarkarli

Tarkarli
Village
Tarkarli Location in Maharashtra, India
Coordinates: 16°03′24″N 73°28′08″E / 16.056535°N 73.468752°E / 16.056535; 73.468752
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
Named after	Karli River
Government
• Type	Grampanchayat
• Body	Tarkarli Grampanchayat
Languages
• Official	Marathi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Tarkarli Backwater

Tarkarli is a village in Malvan taluka in Sindhudurg district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.^[1] It is a beach destination and remote place in southern Maharashtra. Tarkarli Beach was declared a Queen Beach of the Konkan region.

Raapan at Tarkarli

Geography

Tarkarli is 8 km (5.0 mi) south of Malvan and 546 km (339 mi) from Mumbai and 410 km from Pune on the west coast of India, at the confluence of the Karli River and the Arabian Sea.^[2]

Education

Tarkarli has the following educational establishments:

• International Scuba Diving Training Centre^[3]

Travel

The nearest airport is Chipi Sindhudurg International Airport Dabolim Airport in Goa. By rail, Tarkarli can be accessed from Sindhudurg and also from Kudal and Kankavli by the Konkan Railway. Tarkarli is easily accessible by road from Malvan by bus and rickshaw. Tarkarli is 475 km (Panvel Kochi Road, NH 17) and 576 km (Mumbai Kohlapur Road NH 4) away from Mumbai. Daily private, luxury and State Transport bus services are available from various parts of Goa, Mumbai, Pune to Malvan.

Buses from/to Panaji: direct buses run from bus bay #2 at the KTC bus stand in Panaji to Malvan, take 4.5 hours and cost 125 rupees. However, Malvan lies off the national highway (NH-17) so direct buses are infrequent (they also take a longer route). The faster option is to break the journey in parts - Panaji to Sawantwadi (56 rupees; 1.5 hours), Sawantwadi to Kudal (the closest town to Malvan on NH-17; 19 rupees, 0.5 hours), and Kudal to Malvan (30 rupees, 1 hour 15 minutes) - the total time is thus reduced to 3 hour 15 minutes.

Tarkarli Road

Food @ Tarkarkli

See also

• Coral reefs in India

References

1. "Tarkali". Retrieved 2 August 2018.
2. "Tarkarli". India: Puneri Travellers. 27 November 2014. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019.
3. Correspondent, dna (1 August 2016). "Mahrashtra: State ropes in MTDC-run scuba diving institute to train 100 lifeguards". DNA India. Archived from the original on 3 January 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)