Distance : 450 KMs apx
How to go : I traveled by Bus, but one can drive down too.... But trust me Sleeper bus was really Good It takes apx 12 hours to go from Bangalore but you wont eve realize because these buses start at night ad are comf enough to by the time u getup u you are in GOKARNA.
Where to stay: Well there are lodges and rooms available in the township of Gokarna (Suggested for families) but if you are with your friends one must stay in Shacks only there are many in Kudle and Om Beach but during season there ca be shortage and they usually cost around RS 600 per day.
Well enough of description given let me start about my journey (if you are thinking about food then dun worry there is enough of it coming up :))
So the plan started pretty long back once we realized that we have a holiday coming up which is on Thursday so the idea was to add a leave on Friday and start for our trip. I always wanted to go to this place had heard about this place from my friends and of course Tina so i asked Tina what are her plans and asked about if she is in for Gokarna apparently she was also planning for gokarna and thus the plan was on !
Once i returned from Hyderabad i had just two days and i who is certainly not a back packer managed to stuff up all my clothes in two HUGE bags and my camera and the tripod stand. Paran and his sister (Indrani - hereon referred as didi) came to sony signal picked me up then we picked up Karishma and we reached gandhinagar. Had nice fish and rest of the stuff i forgot (Good omen to eat fish before you start anything). There i met Rwittik ( Didi's husband - here on referred as Gangnum) and then came Tina and Rakesh. And we hopped on the bus it was my first time especially on a sleeper bus and i just LOVED it. Well i don't remember much but the fact that my window had a brain of its own and was opening itself in every 5 mins, anyways i managed that with my hand and slept off.
When i woke up i saw beautiful mountains all around, lush green and a narrow black stream of road, so picturesque. Then slowly everyone woke up and finally we reached our destination "Gow Karna - GOKARNA" we hired two auto's the lean ones that is Tina, Paran, Karishma and Rakesh got into one auto and Me, Didi and Gangnum got into the other. Initially lovely uphill and downhill roads and then came the bumpy ones, Felt that the auto can just get scattered into pieces any moment. Anyways we reached a plateau a barren land with no signs of sea or beach anywhere but the air was sultry ;) which was a hint that i was near. We started walking well lets say climbing down the mountain and all of a sudden there i saw the lovely, serene, clean beach called "Kudle", Paran had spoke to a person who owns few shacks there so we directly went which was right on the beach, my body said go to the room and heart said leave it all just jump in the water, well i listened to my body and went to the room. It was beautiful, clean with western toilets and a HUGE bed, well ventilated with millions of mosquitoes. We quickly changed and got into some skimpy clothes and we all went to EAT.
The shack served great Israeli food, i ordered baked beans breakfast with lemon tea and rest all ordered different stuff, we all dug into each others food. Gawd let me just state once for all that one you eat there you just cant eat anywhere else the food is so damn good. I wanted to touch the water so i finally went running touched dipped my feet and then came back, me and gangnum went to play Frisbee for sometime in the beach and it was just play time from then on. After sometime we all were in the water playing the "Monkey in the middle" and what not! It was absolute gala time. We returned took shower and went to eat lunch it was a beautiful place with nice seating joints walls painted with Shiva and full of fire ants (fortunately they din bite us) we kept planning what all we have to do for three days, well to start with we went for Shopping :). Suggestion to all, if you go to Gokarna you must shop.
So the plan started pretty long back once we realized that we have a holiday coming up which is on Thursday so the idea was to add a leave on Friday and start for our trip. I always wanted to go to this place had heard about this place from my friends and of course Tina so i asked Tina what are her plans and asked about if she is in for Gokarna apparently she was also planning for gokarna and thus the plan was on !
Once i returned from Hyderabad i had just two days and i who is certainly not a back packer managed to stuff up all my clothes in two HUGE bags and my camera and the tripod stand. Paran and his sister (Indrani - hereon referred as didi) came to sony signal picked me up then we picked up Karishma and we reached gandhinagar. Had nice fish and rest of the stuff i forgot (Good omen to eat fish before you start anything). There i met Rwittik ( Didi's husband - here on referred as Gangnum) and then came Tina and Rakesh. And we hopped on the bus it was my first time especially on a sleeper bus and i just LOVED it. Well i don't remember much but the fact that my window had a brain of its own and was opening itself in every 5 mins, anyways i managed that with my hand and slept off.
When i woke up i saw beautiful mountains all around, lush green and a narrow black stream of road, so picturesque. Then slowly everyone woke up and finally we reached our destination "Gow Karna - GOKARNA" we hired two auto's the lean ones that is Tina, Paran, Karishma and Rakesh got into one auto and Me, Didi and Gangnum got into the other. Initially lovely uphill and downhill roads and then came the bumpy ones, Felt that the auto can just get scattered into pieces any moment. Anyways we reached a plateau a barren land with no signs of sea or beach anywhere but the air was sultry ;) which was a hint that i was near. We started walking well lets say climbing down the mountain and all of a sudden there i saw the lovely, serene, clean beach called "Kudle", Paran had spoke to a person who owns few shacks there so we directly went which was right on the beach, my body said go to the room and heart said leave it all just jump in the water, well i listened to my body and went to the room. It was beautiful, clean with western toilets and a HUGE bed, well ventilated with millions of mosquitoes. We quickly changed and got into some skimpy clothes and we all went to EAT.
The shack served great Israeli food, i ordered baked beans breakfast with lemon tea and rest all ordered different stuff, we all dug into each others food. Gawd let me just state once for all that one you eat there you just cant eat anywhere else the food is so damn good. I wanted to touch the water so i finally went running touched dipped my feet and then came back, me and gangnum went to play Frisbee for sometime in the beach and it was just play time from then on. After sometime we all were in the water playing the "Monkey in the middle" and what not! It was absolute gala time. We returned took shower and went to eat lunch it was a beautiful place with nice seating joints walls painted with Shiva and full of fire ants (fortunately they din bite us) we kept planning what all we have to do for three days, well to start with we went for Shopping :). Suggestion to all, if you go to Gokarna you must shop.
