Simbor Beach & Portuguese Sea Fort

Tucked away roughly 25 kilometres east of Diu town, near the fishing hamlet of Kotda where a tidal creek meets the Arabian Sea, Simbor Beach is one of the quietest shorelines in the entire Somnath–Diu circuit.

• This is not a resort strip: there are no deck chairs, no shacks and often not another traveller in sight.
• What draws the curious few who make the drive is the rare combination of a soft, empty crescent of sand, a calm creek mouth, and a squat little fort that seems to float on the water just offshore.
• The beach itself is a long, gently shelving arc backed by low dunes, casuarina and scrub, with the creek curling in behind it.
• Because the water here is sheltered by the creek and a sandbar, it stays calmer than the open-sea beaches nearer Diu, and low tide exposes wide flats where crabs scuttle and wading birds pick their way along the shallows.
• It is a place for slow walks, birdwatching and photography at first light rather than for crowds or amenities, so carry your own water, snacks and shade.
• Rising from a rocky islet in the creek is the Fortim do Mar de Simbor, a small Portuguese sea fort built in the eighteenth century to guard the waterway against smuggling and piracy.
• Today it stands as a weather-worn ruin of laterite and stone, its bastions slowly yielding to salt and tide, reachable on foot across the flats only at very low water and otherwise best admired from the shore.
• Treat it purely as a fragment of coastal military heritage — a photogenic relic of the region's layered maritime past.
• For food, Simbor has no reliable pure-vegetarian eatery of its own, so plan to eat in Diu town or nearby Ghoghla before you set out.
• Diu has several simple pure-veg Gujarati and Kathiyawadi thali houses and Jain-friendly bhojanalayas serving unlimited rotli, shaak, dal, rice, chaas and farsan, alongside vegetarian snack stalls turning out dhokla, khaman, fafda and hot chai — a wholesome meal to carry you through a day at this remote coast.