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Kalijai Temple is located in Chilika Lake Near Balugan of Khurda District of Odisha ,India.
Railway Station: belongs to East Coast Railway, Khurda Road Jn . Neighbourhood Stations are Khallikot,Chilka,Ganjam,Odisha.
Airport: approximately 120 km from the nearest airport Bhubaneshwar.
An island provides an excellent destination for pilgrims as well as tourists. Every year in winter season and special in January, Makar Sankrantia a huge gala fair is held during this festival.The Chilika lake is the largest brakish water lagoon in the continent. The sunset is quite enjoying with the mountains and the blue sky. The blue watered Chilika is a gift of nature. Many poets have written in their poetry about "The Chilika and Kalijai ".
Chilika is at about 905 square kilometres in area and in rainy season, it is almost 1165 sq.kms.
For this Chilika is a holy place.Nalaban is known for shrine of Birds' Sanctuary.
In winter season th birds come from devious like America, Australia, Siberia, Canada for food and concealment.In winter season the birds in lakh, almost 221 varieties are seen during the beginning
of October .
Anecdote has it that a girl named Jaai , who wasn't prepared to marry. When along with her father was going to marry with her husband in her law's house which was on an island in Chilika Lake.. They had a ferry to across the lake. Odisha's coast is very aslope to Cyclones and during this boat trip they encountered with a severe Cyclone, as a result their boat capsized in the Chilika Lake.
Except the girl Jaai all the boatmen and her father survived this event . They search for her but were unable to find her. After this accidental death of that newly wed girl, she became the Goddess of people residing nearby and till now, she is worshiped as an Amsa of Kali.
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