An Epic Trip to our Ancestral Hometown (Ramayapatnam)
Recently, around 43 people from four branches of our ‘Kollu’ family tree decided to visit our Ancestral village – Ramayapatnam, near Kavali/Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India. This is the village where our grandfather’s father lived.
I have not been to Ramayapatnam before but I have heard many stories about this village from my grandmother. So I wanted to visit our ancestral place at least once and came up with the idea we could all visit our Ancestral place together. Elder family members were impressed with the idea and brought it to fruition : )
It’s one thing to visit a place, but it’s another thing to meet many distant relatives at one place — some of whom I have seen many years ago and some I am seeing for the first time.
We went to our Ancestral home at Ramayapatnam, but people who live there were out of station so we could just see it from outside. We performed some poojas in our Ancestral Temple and also visited our Ancestral beach 😉
We were surprised to know that this village has beach resorts. To add to our surprise, these beach resorts were all booked during the weekend we visited and we had to stay in the nearby town – Kavili for the night!
Almost everyone knew our great-grandfather’s family who stayed there before 3-4 decades. They even knew the names of our grandfathers – a couple whom even made it to this reunion 🙂 I think it’s important to keep in touch with our roots – it’s because of them we are here.
I feel this was an epic trip because four generations of people from three different states and four towns agreed to travel and meet at one place. If you live in the city, you know how difficult this can be – especially during these times as families are distributed all around the world.
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PS: Don’t forget to watch the photo slideshow video embedded above with the highlights of this trip.
PS-2: Since we are settled in Chennai for three generations, we don’t even mention the name of our ancestral village – when asked. But now we can 🙂
Interesting, Rajesh! We feel some vibration without our knowledge in our ancestral place. It happened to us too in our village. Have to write about it soon!
Keep in touch with them, the relatives over there, in the future.
Do write about your visit to your ancestral village, Maami. Actually none of our relatives stay in the village any longer, but a few of them stay in nearby towns – will keep in touch with them.
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You all are very fortunate to have a big family reunion and that too in your ancestral village. Hope you all had a great time. I am pleasantly surprised there are beach resorts in this village.
Yes we had a good time 🙂 That resort was earlier used by the British as a recreational getaway it seems, now those buildings seem to have been converted into a resort.
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Wow, that’s really wonderful and looks like a great get-together of families reunited at your ancestral village. But wished you got chance to visit the house inside. Our ancestral town is Mamallapuram and we have been there often, so I ever felt special being there rather for the sculptures
That’s nice – having been to ancestral home multiple times. This is the first time for most of us!
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Ancestral beach … hahaha
One memorable trip for all the people who went for sure
yea 🙂
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wow how did you guys plan the trip? It must have been very difficult to coordinate a trip with so many folks right? Even a short weekend lunch takes multiple rescheduling in my family as someone will not be free. That’s awesome. I have never been to my grandfather’s town either. Hope to visit someday.
We fixed a date which we thought was most appropriate. Afterward, this date was not changed. I guess that was the secret 🙂
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interesting
ya, very much 🙂
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