Karwar
Travel Blogs from Karwar, India
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Lazing on the beach
... place we are staying is made up of about 20 tiny little individual huts made of plywood walls and tiled roofs (insulated with India's most common building material - blue camping tarps). There is about a one-foot space between the top of the wall and ...
'Wantaj, Wantaj'
... off. Yippee. *********************************** Flash news! Dear comrades cheer up! It is time to celebrate! Government of India has agreed and constituted 6th pay commission. Proposed strike by central government employees have been called ...
Lazy days in Arambol, Goa
... the "guitar." Apart from weighing as much as a similar sized block of concrete, it looked like a warped version of what someone in India might think a guitar should look like, made from a crooked line drawing. The neck was as big and square as a 2 x ...
Language theory, and so many choices.
... of round the world. (this is not a blatant plea for donations, at least not yet.. haha. . .) People get stuck here in India, and I can see why they do. The easy pace, the simple understandability of the country, the hospitality and good-naturedness of ...
sometimes, you gotta take a punt..
... over night. The "Railotel" was brilliantly clean, nice bathroom and pretty damn cheap for the standard.... Good south india resturant downstairs, cheap thalis (sounding more and more like bekal).... it was all looking pretty good, now just ...
The 44 day reward
... ? Co2 level were too high, you see." "I see Lad," I said, not seeing at all. · Impenetrable We´d almost forgotten that India suffers with mosquitoes. That was until we got here to Palolem Beach. Our room has mozzie nets over our beds, ...
Rocinante! The Harley of India. . .
... rider. The Enfield is not only the top of the pecking order for motorcycles here, it is just about the fastest vehicle going in India. And Rocinante is in mint condition, a fine example of her breed. I've been riding around for a couple of days now, ...
Let's get the party started
· Palolem Beach, Goa, India · GMT +5:30hrs 2 down, 4 to go God damn Indian train food. Remember how I commented a few entries back on the fact that we were probably tempting fate by getting a lot of our recent sustenance from those little tinfoil ...
Life's a beach!
Feeling slightly exhausted after an action packed week, which includede several over night journeys, we headed to Goa in search of a bit of chill out time. With so many beautiful palm fringed beaches to chose from the most difficult task was deciding ...
Fastforward to an inundated Day two
They said it'd be raining, but man o man is it raining! They also said "Yes boss. 100 % waterproof". Come to find out, my haversack, my tank bag, my bike panniers, my raincoat, my helmet and my freaking shoes have a breaking ...
My First Beach Hut
... Our bus however was to turn up late and pretty much falling apart, it was easily the worst condition bus I have taken in India. I despite assurances that I would have my own sleeper ended up sharing with some random guy that took up the entire space. Tim ...
Ahhh, GOA!
... that had to be the craziest thing we've experienced. The remainder of the week was chilling by the beach, eating seafood and enjoying India at a much more relaxed pace. We would end up going back to Mumbai, but only for one day prior to our flight ...
Goa
... on rented bikes and a herd of long-horned oxen,) stand Old Goa, the capital of the Portuguese colonial power in India. A gateway at the river port opens onto the main avenue between proud white washed churches and a secretariat. A tall cathedral and ...
Bumming Aboot on the Beach
Not much to say really/ Much of the day was spent chilling on the beach as we had to catch a night bus so we weren't able to wander far. We did spend a couple of hours on one of the fishing boats bobbing about in the water and trying to catch fish ...
Gorgeous Goa
We got up really early and caught a bus from the bus station to a town called Margao from where we had to catch another to our destination Palolem in south Goa. We wanted to get tickets for the train to Cochin for the next night, but all the tickets ...
Glorious Goa!
... coco-hut on the beach, very basic accomodation that costs a basic 2 pounds per night - can't say fairer than that guv! We intend to do very little over the next few days, this is our holiday time before heading back into India proper and then on to ...
Hippienes siste paradis...
... tropiske deler av India, men litt tommeltott, pekefinger osv-telling har resultert i den planen jeg har for mitt opphold i India kan fremprovosere tidsnoed. Jeg maatte sikkert ha spist hatten min om jeg hardnakket naa hadde paastaatt at denne planen ...
On the road with nothing
28th December 2008 Anand Lodge, Karwar, Karnataka, India Very hot Paloloem - Karwar (44kms) Another short day, we left Palolem early and arrived in Karwar before 11am. We firstly tried the Om Hotel but it was full, ...
A score settled
In direct confliction with the words of my travel agent, I was rather unceremoniously kicked off the bus at 3am in the middle of nowhere. 'Luckily' the bus driver's mate was on hand to taxi me the further 30 Km to Gokarna for a mere 500 Rupees. I ...
Day 4: Surprise Calmness
... resting, almost meditating. This place had ayurveda camps, massage training centers and a number of converted Hindu foreigners. Thank you India! We walked across the beach to reach a shack which served some beer. The shack was owned by a long haired, ...
Beaches, Birthdays and Bribery!
After Mumbai I stopped briefly in Goa to collect my traveling companion Laura and a scooter (its OK mum no motorbike as yet, just a moped....with no helmets! lol) . We then headed down to Gokarna in Karnataka state for a balmy beach birthday bonanza, as ...
Lonely Pollem
Ausflug an ruhigere Bucht. Mit dem Bus fuhren wir heute nach Polem, eine kleine Bucht mit Strand. Es gibt dort ein Restaurant, sechs Cocos-Hütten, ein paar Fischer und kaum Touristen. Schon cool wenn man die Beach quasi für sich alleine hat. ...
India so far!! Bangalore, Kerala, Kochin and Goa.
A random selection of pictures from India so ...
Chorizo and Vegetarian - What a match
... mixture of Indian cultures with Portugese influences set along a palm covered coastline. At times Virginie has felt that we weren't in India at all but in a European town. Goa was a Portugese colony and a major stop during the spice trade. This has ...
Reflections on India
... than to look out of the window. At the border there was first (fist)fight for us, rikshaw customers. Unforgetable entering India. We proceeded to Varanasi, afterwards New Delhi, where we were grounded for couple of days due to the effects of Incredible ...
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