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Glorious Gokarna

September 19th, 2005  |  Published in India & Around, Living, Photography, Sports & Adventure, Travel  |  20 Comments

If I knew it was such a beau­ti­ful place, I would def­i­nitely have gone ear­lier. Hav­ing spent 2 short but glo­ri­ous days dis­cov­er­ing the beaches of the Kar­war stretch this week­end, I can only hope to go back there some­day for a longer stay.

Apart from a short spell of about 15 min­utes when it rained in the morn­ing of our arrival, we were blessed with good weather. The sea was on the rough side due to the rainy season.

We had beau­ti­ful moon­light (and a near full moon) when we climbed one hill to cross over to another beach in the evening. The moon dap­pled waters cre­at­ing magic and from our van­tage point on the hill, the whole scene seemed to be bathed in a mys­ti­cal light.

Sip­ping hot lemon tea over break­fast with the waves lap­ping up to the entrance of our shack, wish­ing, we could always have break­fast in this style!

A har­row­ing, but scenic walk through the hills, with a sharp cliff face to our left and an equally sharp drop into the rock strewn waters below was the high­light of our wan­der­ings. The scene before me — water for miles around and the promise of empty beaches in the dis­tance — left me breath­less! And grab­bing my cam­era every few minutes.

What a week­end. Between the 8 of us, we must have taken close to 500 pic­tures : every­where we turned there was a sight wor­thy of being framed! My travel notes will fol­low in a few days as usual. My pho­tos have arrived but they will take a day or two to sort out. Here’s a sneak peek in the meanwhile…

Gokarna

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  1. Vigvg says:

    September 19th, 2005 at 7:41 pm (#)

    Its amaz­ing you haven’t exhausted ALL the places in and around KA to adventure-weekend in !! Where do you get the time, and the energy ! Phew !

  2. Arjun says:

    September 20th, 2005 at 10:45 am (#)

    Great!. can’t wait for the snaps!

    BTW, its damn cloudy today, and its rain­ing in mangalore!

  3. Confused says:

    September 20th, 2005 at 10:50 am (#)

    WHERE is Gokarna n Karwar!!!

  4. Sinfully Pinstripe says:

    September 20th, 2005 at 4:01 pm (#)

    Aargh! Am dying to go to this place, heard lots and lots about this place. Great post. Now on to the pho­tos please :)

    And as a side­note, some­one had men­tioned to me that this is where one gets the best mar­i­juana south of the vindhyas.

  5. Ben says:

    September 20th, 2005 at 8:51 pm (#)

    Ah Gokarna! Brings back lot of memories.

    Are Israelis still there in big num­bers? Did you visit Om Beach? And how about Holy Brah­mins car­ry­ing water!

  6. Anita says:

    September 21st, 2005 at 11:05 am (#)

    vig­nesh: well. i’ve just started actu­ally! and there’s so much to see :) i think more than time and energy (which all of us have or can make) it’s a mat­ter of inclination.

    arjun: i think we took good weather with us from bangalore :)

    con­fused: a map of india would help perhaps?

    sin­fully pin­stripe: now that is some­thing we didn’t explore ;)

    ben: there were very few peo­ple around. a hand­ful of bel­gians, aus­tralians, israelis and ger­mans. om beach — yes, of course. it’s the most famous one in the area!

  7. Muthu Online says:

    September 21st, 2005 at 11:21 am (#)

    Awe­some pics! Looks like you are going to 1 new get­away spot a month! Keep it going.

  8. nandish says:

    September 21st, 2005 at 10:41 pm (#)

    Always wanted to go to karwar…it has the best beaches in india. ur snaps makes me more enthu…

  9. Jay says:

    September 27th, 2005 at 2:37 am (#)

    Where did you stay at Gokarna? You men­tion a shack… I am plan­ning a trip in Jan/Feb. Would love to hear more. Think­ing of tak­ing the train from Mum­bai to Gokarna to enjoy the train ride too. Suggestions/comments?

    Thanks!

  10. SloganMurugan says:

    September 27th, 2005 at 1:48 pm (#)

    Hi,
    I intend to go to Gokarna. Can u sug­gest a place to stay? Did you stay in Gokarna itself?

    Peace
    Gopal

  11. fatallyflawed says:

    September 27th, 2005 at 4:19 pm (#)

    those of you who want to stay in Om beach…therez a place called Namaste hotel at the entrance. Going down the Namaste trail will lead you to the first arc and you should be able to find at least 5 shacks (each shack con­sists of a min of 3–4 huts). A lil fur­ther will lead you to the sec­ond arc and here you should find 4–5 shacks. At the end of the sec­ond arc, therez Rama’s shack (owned by a sweet guy called Rama ofcourse). This is how­ever if you’d like to stay in the OM beach itself. But I must warn you guys…itz highly unlikely that the local shack own­ers enter­tain INDIAN tourists who’d like to stay there. This will be a good test of your bar­gain­ing skills. Should cost you not more than Rs.50 per hut per day. Food/Beverages/Drinks/Weed etc. will be extra. :))))

  12. srs says:

    September 28th, 2005 at 12:19 pm (#)

    Dear Anita, I am look­ing for­ward to your detailed trav­el­ogue on Gokarana.

  13. aravind says:

    December 14th, 2005 at 12:33 pm (#)

    hai
    my name is aravind i havent seen sucha par­adise place
    in india atlist before u die u got to visit om beach
    u can find lord shivas favt stough as well u can rise
    ur kun­dalini
    NEVER MISS OM BEACH
    BOOM SHIVA
    TACK CARE
    THE BEST WAS PARADISE BEACH TOLLA

  14. Nandini says:

    January 17th, 2006 at 6:23 pm (#)

    Hey! Need info. on travel and stay for Om Beach. Can any­one help, please? Need best time of year as well!

    Thanks!

  15. deep says:

    April 24th, 2006 at 7:07 am (#)

    i had been to om beach and kudle beach in the sum­mer of 2004 with my wife and 5 year old dauhter.it was deserted.we had lunch at om namaste.we did not ven­ture to 1/2 moon beach.however there seems to be another way to par­dise beach.had gone part of the way
    but had to turn back due to fad­ing light.

  16. Aditya Marathe says:

    July 3rd, 2006 at 9:07 am (#)

    youve got a sweet blog!!

    Things aren’t always as they appear from a dis­tance, you’ve got to go close, see, touch, taste and feel them to under­stand.
    For more.…
    The Inte­gral
    The place where Life is the curve inte­grated over var­i­ous ele­ments that we see in and around us.

  17. sonal says:

    July 27th, 2006 at 12:02 pm (#)

    hey! i need to know details of gokarna .…..
    any hotels or resorts thr

  18. eric says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 3:24 pm (#)

    hello all

  19. ajith says:

    March 6th, 2007 at 9:40 pm (#)

    hello all !! first off… gr8 blog!! my frens an I are plan­ning a trip to GOK ..2007 march 16,17,18,19.… well jus won­der­ing.. if any of u ll know about the trains to gokarna from bangalore!!!

  20. trinity says:

    June 1st, 2010 at 9:01 pm (#)

    I had a bad exp in swaswara resort.

    the recep­tion­ist was tak­ing to me very cheaply with­out adress­ing prop­erly just because I am Indian.

    “our prices are in Euro’s n resort is not for you indian was what she was saying.

    thought i was will­ing to pay what ever the f.k..g price they had.

    the resort SUCKS.

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