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  • Road tripping along the Karnataka Coast

    Just before the curtains fell on 2014, we went on our last trip for the year, to make sure the year ended on a ‘high’ note ( read tipsy note). Still in ‘Discover Karnataka mode’ and in  road-trip mood, this time the plan was to drive along Karnataka’s coast....
  • Mirjan Fort – A Red Fort on Karnataka’s Coast

    Mirjan Fort in Kumta had been calling out to me since the time I was planning that week-long road trip along the Karnataka Coast. I was longing to see and walk through an ancient Fort in India (it had been a while since I had done that) and wanted...
  • Karwar: Karnataka’s picturesque northwest

    Karwar is the northernmost of port cities of Karnataka and is known for serving as a Naval base too. It lies on the north western corner of Karnataka, a few kilometres south of where the state shares a border with Goa. As such, it seemed like a good idea...
  • NH 48 Bangalore- Mangalore

    Road tripping across Karnataka

    We’re in ‘Discover-Karnataka* mode,’ We decide to step out of the all-too familiar Mysore-Bangalore region and head to western parts of Karnataka. The initial plan: to drive through a part of the Karnataka coast,  say hello to the waterfalls that make up the famous Jog Falls and have a...
  • Basaltic Columns

    Islands of Basaltic Columns

    Would you like to see whole islands made of rock-columns? Visit the fascinating St. Mary's Island -- a group of islands -- off the coast of Karnataka, India. ...
  • Catching sundown in Surathkal

    After almost a week of tripping along the Karnataka Coast and beach-hopping along the way, we had a couple of days to spend in Malpe. On our second evening there (after the trip to St. Mary’s island and all that) we decided to drive further south and visit one...
  • A beach so unspoiled and simply beautiful

    Simply Beautiful!I wouldn’t want to call it anything else. Decorative adjectives might steal Ottinene Beach off its pure, natural beauty.  Ottinene Beach — I must say — turned out to be the best part of our beach-hopping trip along the Karnataka Coast. When I looked up this place, I...
  • Murudeshwar: Where everything seems to be massive

    Just off what was popularly known as NH -17* (Edapally- Panvel Highway, now NH- 66), around 80 kilometres south of Gokarna is another temple town, known for its Shiva temple, a humongous statue of the god, an imposing temple tower and of course, its beach. Murudeshwar. It does sound...
  • Glimpses: Honnavar and the Sharavathi

    Honnavar lies in Uttara Kannada in the state of Karnataka (in S. India). It is here that the Sharavathi River meets the Arabian Sea. If you remember the post on Jog Falls, you might remember that it is the drop of the Sharavathi River that forms that waterfall that...
  • Gokarna | A temple town and beach town rolled into one charismatic zone

    Famous. Famous for its beaches. Famous for its holy sites. Famous of its international travellers. Gokarna, seems to be one of those places where everybody-who-has-heard-of-it wants to visit; and everybody who has visited it, wants to go again. For us it had been on the cards for a while....
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