The region was once the most major trade route of India that used to transport all the treasures from the central heartland to the gigantic merchant ships carrying cotton textiles, precious stones and minerals, ivory, and spices to South East Asian countries and to Roman ports as well. The supremacy of North Indian rulers gradually shifted the trade ports towards the west coast of India. Now here lies a long stretch of pristine coastline, with mangrove sea mouths here and there, and the line is guarded by the range of discontinuous green hills – The Eastern Ghats. Home to indigenous tribes trying to guard their ancestral rights on land and their age-old customs against the threat from the expansionist capitalistic economy – it is truly an off the beaten path to experience the hidden India – unspoilt nature and rituals in everyday life of both mainstream Hindu inhabitants and the rural indigenous mass. The ideal time to travel is post monsoon days - when the waterfalls hidden inside the verdant valleys of Mahendragiri are on their full strength, the lands and pastures of Odhisha- Andhra coasts become rich with ripen crops, pilgrims gather on temple doors, and migratory birds start to come to their winter homeland – Chilika and Bhitorkonika