Kakinada కాకినాడ
A planned port city with wide roads, a deep-water harbour and the Coringa mangroves at its doorstep. The Kakinada district also takes in Annavaram's hill temple, Pithapuram's ancient shrines and the Uppada weaving villages.
Places in Kakinada
Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary
India's second-largest mangrove forest, by boat and boardwalk
Hope Island
A sandy spit island that shields Kakinada's harbour
Annavaram Satyanarayana Temple
The hill temple of the Satyanarayana vratam
Uppada Beach
A fishing beach and the home of Jamdani silk
Born in Kakinada
Kakinada Kaja
A cylinder of layered maida dough deep-fried and soaked in sugar syrup until the outside is crisp and the inside runs with syrup — the 'gottam kaja' of Kakinada, a coastal cousin of Tapeswaram's madata kaja.
Uppada Jamdani
Silk sarees woven at Uppada with the jamdani technique, in which motifs are inlaid by hand thread by thread so the design is identical on both sides. A single saree can take weeks. GI-tagged.
Getting to Kakinada
Samalkot Junction (12 km) on the main line and Kakinada Port/Town stations; Rajahmundry airport is about 65 km.