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Local Tourism by Ecco

Alibaug is a beautiful tourist destination in India. You can spend an enjoyable time in Alibaug with your family and friends. Besides flights and trains, you can also reach Map Resort by our own cab service. The journey via road is scenic and smooth. Moreover, our Cab service can be used to travel from one tourist spot to another as well as for embarking on outstation trips. You can book a cab for your preferred duration.

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Popti, the winter campfire

With the advent of winter and the beginning of harvest season, the locals in the Raigad district of Maharashtra get together to celebrate the produce in a unique way, by throwing a popti party. Popti is a one-pot harvest special dish made with seasonal vegetables, tubers, beans, some local spices and/or chicken and eggs. The hero of the dish is field beans, known as val beans in western India, which grow here in abundance.
To prepare popti, a clay pot is first lined with bhamburdi leaves (bhamburdi shrub grows wild in the region from December-May and is known for its medicinal properties). Vegetables like potato, purple yam, brinjal, val beans and peas, and peanuts are tossed in salt and a mix of spices, and placed inside the pot along with chicken, which is marinated in homemade masala and wrapped in a silver foil, and gaavthi (country) eggs. MAP Resort arranges this special party on Request.