Redi Beach and Ganapati Temple

Redi is the first village across the Tiracol River in Maharashtra, reached by the small ferry from Tiracol jetty or by driving over the road bridge a couple of kilometres upstream. Its long red-sand beach is even quieter than Querim, often almost empty even in peak season, and the rust-red colour of the sand — from the iron-ore mining that was once the village's main industry — is unlike anything else on this stretch of coast.

The Redi Ganapati Temple, a short walk inland from the beach, is the area's other draw: a freshly rebuilt shrine to Ganesha in a reclining pose, much visited by Maharashtrian pilgrims on weekends but quiet on weekdays. Combine the temple with the small Yashwantgad Fort on the hill above the village for a half-day's gentle exploring north of the border.

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The Ganapati temple at Redi enshrines an unusual reclining stone image of Ganesha that was unearthed by miners at the local iron-ore quarry in 1976. Local tradition holds that the same image had been buried by villagers centuries earlier to keep it safe from Portuguese raids across the river, and that the modern temple — rebuilt in the 1980s — sits on the original pre-Portuguese shrine.