Udupi, India Travel Blogs

The time machine, The Darkness and The Light. .
Apr 18, 2006 (5 photos)

... and be on good behavior. These are good people, they work hard to make things as nice as they can, and deserve respect. Palolem and India in general may be like a frontier town in many ways, but that is no reason to act like a cowboy. If you want to do ...

Going Native
Apr 21, 2006 (5 photos)

I leave tomorrow at dawn, though Mama and the family keep encouraging me to stay until the 25th. My travelling "feet" itch so badly that for a time I thought I had tinea pedis, or something. They love me here, this family, and they are good to me. ...

Leaving Palolem. .
Apr 22, 2006 (5 photos)

... made it hard to leave, also some apprehension about riding solo into the heart of Karnataka and the real hard core India. So I dawdled until noon, checking e-mails, making sure Rocinante was in good working order, stocking up on water and cigarettes, ...

Scams advice, and "The Crew". .
Apr 13, 2006 (5 photos)

... in about a thousand words or so, and even saved in wordpad. Then suddenly the power went out, as it is wont to do here in India. Unfortunately there was no battery backup at the internet caf I was at. . "Broken" they told me. I thought that, ok, no ...

Rocinante gets to gallop
Apr 6, 2006 (5 photos)

... packed the night before, and loaded up Rocinante with my guitar sticking up on the sissy bar, bungee corded and chained up. Driving in India is not for the faint of heart. Though the Enfield is one of the fastest things on the road, there are so many ...

Itchy feet and fading smiles.
Apr 9, 2006 (5 photos)

Palolem is considered to be the most beautiful beach in Goa, and truly it is a wonderful place, but the half-life of beach towns is growing smaller for me, there is only so much relaxation one can have, and even the nicest ways one can spend a day-- ...

Udupi
Nov 7, 2008

... reason we were not going to do this was because we didn't believe.  The astrology side is intriguing, but I think because Udupi is a place of pilgrimage for many, these holy men (they would call them 'business holy men' in Varanasi) take advantage of ...

Udipi, home of the Masala Dosa
Dec 18, 2006 (4 photos)

Just a quick one this time, to record that we were here.  There's not much to say about it.  We had a bit of an argument with the taxi drivers at the station about how much we should pay to come into the centre.  They were telling us the ...

Udupi
Nov 8, 2008

... rubbing their heads with pleasure/pain....that's it, maybe it's the pleasure/pain principle at work. The rest of Udupi involved eating and nothing else: fried plaintain chips, pav bhaji (little fried dumplings) with coconut sambol, butterscotch ice ...

2 days in the wet, kissed by the animals
Jul 2, 2005 (12 photos)

Sometimes traveling can be hard. I dozed a bit on the bus ride to a place somewhere in between Agumbe and Hebri. At this time I even was not sure where about these small villages are situated, Namit and his friends organized the whole trip. I am already ...

Temple ferver in Udupi
Mar 13, 2008 (15 photos)

... exciting and entrancing. That night the heavens opened and a massive storm and unseasonal rain unleashed itself on Udupi and the whole of South India.... people died in Kerala and crops were ruined across the country.  With the monsoon not due for ...

Udayavara Beach-Udupi district-Karnataka-India
Apr 7, 2008

One of the "bestest" beaches  in  India. This beach is unexplored by many. One has to cross a big backwater in a boat and then get to this beach.