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Gokarna Slideshow
Gokarna
Travel Blogs from Gokarna, India
The Road to Gokarna
... in the guidebook that some of the locals are resentful towards western tourists increaingly coming to Gokarna, one of the holiest places, for Hindus, in southern India, so I wondered if we were experiancing this prejudice. It seemed that travellers tended ...
Kaunis Gogarna
Sopivassa suhteessa lepoa ja kuntoilua. Siina on jo aika pitkalle hyvan elaman edellytykset. Ollaan nukuttu 11 tunnin younia ja kavelty joka paiva johonkin suuntaan viidakkopolkuja. 10 paivaa on kulunut rattoisasti ja hyvin nopeasti taalla kauniin ...
Gokarna's Beaches
What do you expect from a place called 'Cow's ear'? That's the translation for the town 'Gokarna'. Well, I do not know why but it is supposed to be a very holly place. So holly that even lots of temples have a small sign saying: 'foreigners prohibited'. ...
Kochi and Gokarna
There really is no escaping perfect beaches in this neck of the woods. I'm now in Gokarna (also known as Gokarn), on the coast at the northern end of Karnataka, just below Goa. The place is full of temples, and is of great spiritual significance to ...
Om Beach
A welcome rest after a long week of travelling from one town to another, day after day. Om Beach is beautiful and a great place to recharge the batteries and unwind. There is nothing at all to do here other than sunbathe, read, play cards and cool down ...
Omming it up on Om Beach
So this is the second half of this double post - coming down from Patnem to Gokarna, I had little idea of what to expect, except that Ali had told me that I've got to go to Gokarna and to Om Beach. Arriving and coming over the headland, I began to ...
Sad..............
... ! Everyone seems to be stuck and everyone seems to find ways of keeping themselves busy, just like normal life with all the extras, by far the best place in India so far and probably all of, but we will see what goa has to offer! Moving on to Patnem! ...
We are stuck!
Day 25 ; Arrived at gokarna by train, which we travelled 2nd AC it was goooood! we actually had our own bunk, it was pitch black and the train station was miles away from where we wanted to be so all piled in a bus and when I say piled I mean I was sat on ...
The art of doing Nothing
... my problems. I can't think of any others, and it feels great! I'm at Mabla's place, where I stayed last time I visited Gokarna. It's a relaxed, friendly place with several regulars who spend every season here. We spend our days between home and town, ...
Some time at the beach
... was at the end but in our view the weather was perfect still and it was nice with not so many tourists around. We traveled to Gokarna staying in the town for a night before heading to the beach side. We stayed in one of the little guesthouses on Om ...
And now, the News
From the Vijay Times, Wednesday 16th November: SHOW A TOILET AT HOME TO GET A DRIVING LICENCE Bangalore: Possessing a valid driving licence and other documents relating to road-use alone may not prevent you from being hauled up by the traffic ...
xmas in india
Just had Christmas on the beach in Gokarna. Lovely place, lovely time. I love India, you can get anything done, no problem. Just want to say thanks to the people I spent it with who made it so great away from home, they're in this picture. ...
Shivaratri Festival in Gokarna
... and Gora alike. Banana vendors did good business yesterday as their product was in great demand ... the custom during Shivaratri in Gokarna is to throw small bananas hoping that they enter the immense chariot. Successful throws are then coupled with a ...
Om Beach, Gokarna
... , as I couldn't imagine making that trek alone. Esp. when Anette had a flashlight (I quickly bought my own). Gokarna is known for it's unspoiled beaches, which means accommodations are as basic as you can imagine. Bungalows are literally ...
Same same - but different.
... a drop of several hundred feet to one side. After four knuckle whitening hours we arrived at the dusty, derserted bus stop of Gokarna village. Managed to get both of us, our four bags and two random italians and their four bags into the back ...
Último destino, no podía ser mejor
... ocasiones la concentración de ellas por la noche era tal que no podíamos ni pasar al chiringuito! En definitiva, resumiría Gokarna como un sitio muy muy tranquilo, para descansar y disfrutar de buena comida. Y las playas son maravillosas. Nuestro ...
Heading North to Gokarna beach
I arrived in Mangalore at 9:00am and had 6 hours to kill before getting my connecting train to Gokarna (another beach town). Remember those 2 girls from the Ashram who don't travel with guide books? I was envious of them and they're ability to ...
Hanging with sacred cows on Om Beach
... of Indian cities ... and we are hanging out with them on Om Beach. We're planning on spending the week here and attending Shivaratri Festival which takes place in the village of Gokarna from Thursday to Saturday, before heading up to Mumbai ...
Not Quite Goa
... a quiet, intense moment that I savored. But we were not going to Goa, not this day anyway. Behind us about 40 kilometres was Gokarna, and Om beach, shaped as it is like the auspicious Hindu "Om" symbol. For the time being Om beach was our ...
Life's a beach
Namaste It was a few short hops on a few buses to Gokarna, but it still took us most of the day. We weren't sure what it would be like as backpackers tend to sometimes have an objective view on places that are 'amazing'. What we ...
Na svatym miste
Prave sem se vratil z baru, jak pravil nas prvni delnicky president. Manzelka muj navrh prijala.....Vymyslel sem variant jinou, levnejsi a blize k tomu abysme se dostali do Gokarny kolem poledne. Chlapci na baru mi rekli, ze je blbost cekat do trech ...
Paradise and Why I am Never Leaving Again
My main reason for coming to Gokarna was to see Jog Falls, the highest waterfall in India. I had not factored in just how much I would love Gokarna though. It plays host to hundreds of Hindu pilgrims each year and has a vast and beautiful beach bordered ...
The Cow's Ear
... up the attractions for tourists in this holy town, beside the pleasant atmosphere. But this is not why tourists usually come to Gokarna. The main attraction lies beyond the cliff, which is only one in a series of many very large lumps of rock portruding ...
And it burns burns burns like a foot of fire...
... usual Indian rubbish) - a few cafe/bars along it and thats it and hardly any people. Didnt make it on time to get onto Gokarna beach (just as far as the edge of the headland overlooking it) but also looked quite long and isolated - nice place. I ...
into Goa, OM Beach
On the way up, we stopped short of the imfamous party city of Goa in smaller, holy town of Gokarna.. There I had chance to ride a camel on the beach. It was relatively ...
Time for some chillin on the beach
It looked like we had arrived in the middle of nowhere (hope the guide book recommendation was good). the area has 5 beaches - the main one where the town (or village?) is wasused mainly by Hindus for some religiious bathing. Kootlee beach was a bit more ...
Gokarna
... any photos of it and it was on the way up to north Goa, where we were catching our train to Mumbai. The train journey from Gokarna to be to Benualim was crazy, the train we caught was only stoping at the station we were at for bout 10 secends it ...