
Turtle Festival
Turtle festival is arranged by Forest Department, Village Panchayat, Kasav Mitramandal. Please call at respective villages directly to know about the festival dates and other details.
- Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra (SNM) started Marine turtle conservation first time in Maharashtra.
- In the year 2002 SNM started actual protection work for Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) in Velas, a tiny village on northernmost boundary of district Ratnagiri. Within a short span of time, SNM spread the protection work to entire coast of Maharashtra state, that's about 720 km of coastline in all.
- 1st year, SNM undertook protection work in 1 village and successfully protected 50 nests.
- SNM with its limited resources is trying its level best to protect marine turtles and empower villagers.
- Local people make turtle festival arrangements.
- For more details about Velas please call any Homestay owner on this link - Contact Numbers of Homestay at Kasav Mitra Mandal, Velas. Please note that these numbers are very difficult to connect.
- SNM empowered villagers by starting Velas Homestay to host the tourists visiting during Turtle Festival in 2006.
- Turtle festival is an opportunity for metro-tourists to bid best wishes to the newly born sea turtle hatchlings while crawling towards their home.
Bus |
Starts from |
at |
Reaches |
at |
Pune - Velas | Pimpri | 09.30 | Velas | 17.30 |
Velas - Pune | Velas | 06.45 | Swargate (Pune) | 13.30 |
Mumbai - Velas | Mumbai | 12.30 | Velas | 20.00 |
Velas - Mumbai | Velas | 06.30 | Mumbai | 12.30 |
Mumbai - Velas | Mumbai | 00.30 | Velas | 06.30 |
Velas - Mumbai | Velas | 09.00 | Mumbai | 15.00 |
Ratnagiri - Velas | Ratnagiri | 16.15 | Velas | 22.30 |
Velas - Ratnagiri | Velas | 05.00 | Ratnagiri | 11.00 |
Dapoli - Velas | Dapoli | 14.50 | Velas | 17.30 |
Velas - Dapoli | Velas | 07.30 | Dapoli | 10.30 |
Mandangad - Velas | Mandangad | 08.10 | Velas | 09.15 |
10.10 | 11.30 | |||
14.30 | 15.30 | |||
Velas - Mandangad | Velas | 09.30 | Mandangad | 10.30 |
11.55 | 12.55 | |||
16.15 | 17.15 |
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