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Varkala Slideshow
Varkala
Travel Blogs from Varkala, India
Kathakali time
... and Visa photocopied and a photo of me along with 220 Rupees to get a SIM card. Back in the autorickshaw and zooming back to Varkala beach, now I have all the necessary documents, and I tested the USB modem (which didn't work first time, fortunately I had ...
Stunning Kerala
... train to Varkala, organsied a taxi to the Cliff Lounge hotel which was spotless, the whole resort was exactly what we were after. Varkala is a very small place and visually stunning, sat on top of a large cliff with it's own private beach at the bottom ...
to the beach!...
... the location dot moveth once again. i can't be so close to the Indian Ocean and not find a good place to get in it. cue varkala. water is warm, waves are big, sun is hot, sand is clean, and ted is happy. let's see how this pale minnesotan skin reacts ...
Varkala cliff, another beach paradise
... propellor so far. Mind you the policeman on duty was dutyfully wistling at them every single time, but to no effect... Anyways, Varkala is an enchanting place to discover and a pity to leave, one of those few sheltered havens of India where you ...
Happy bendy birthday!
... hot and sweaty at the village, had average tea and coffee at a shack that resembled a sauna with cats then got the bus back to Varkala town, befuddled by the fact that women sit at the front of the bus and men sit at the back and that it was duly ...
God's Own Country
... fact that it is not Kovalam which is THE beach-town in Kerala. At Christmas time that means jacked up prices and huge crowds. Varkala by comparison is smaller, much less built up, and lacks any scene; it's a very chill out place and were quite at ...
Squeezy Love Pillow saved our Butts!
... ! Well we have finally found the sun and the beach and what a differenvce it makes. We are on HOLIDAY! We have just left Varkala, which is fab. It's a relaxed beach resort set on a cliff with lots of backpackers. We have found a good room with a ...
Bamboo hut on a cliff
... at a place that had bamboo huts to stay in for a really cheap price. It was the first bamboo hut we had ever stayed in! Varkala is a town that is situated right on top of a cliff looking over the sea. Because it was dark when we got there we ...
V for Varkala
... you wish to call it. For the last five days I have been pretty much bed ridden and instead of enjoying all Varkala offers; yoga, the wonderful beaches, fantastic restaurants and the company of two very interesting and beautiful ladies from Austria I have ...
Wieder draußen!
... Philosophie. Insgesamt kann ich sagen: meinem Körper geht es verdammt gut. Mir auch. Yoga gefällt mir. Jetzt bin ich in Varkala am Meer! Lasse die Beine baumeln und frage mich, wie ich ohne festen Tagesablauf klar kommen soll :-) Ein Fruitshake in ...
road trip
... a slight frown as I trudged past with my backpack slung over both shoulders. "No, just going for one day to Varkala," I replied with a smile. The answer morphed grief-stricken Indian faces to ones of extreme content, them knowing that I would ...
Varkala
The holiday has actually started finally. We're staying in Varkala, which is a lovely place. We're perched upon a cliff top which looks along a somewhat techouros sea. we went in briefly this morning but the power of the waves is incredible. Everyone we ...
New Years
... I thought id better come back and modify this entry as i had some comments back about my strange acronymic creation about. basically varkala just wasnt really my kind of place- it was super gringo-tastic and very touristy in a hippyish way i ...
Thailand?Italy?Nepal? I've been here before
... it was delux to so quickly progress from one place to the next, it set me up for another bit of culture shock. I'd heard Varkala, Kerala (waaaayyyy down south) was a good bet for some escape / beach time. I got here, found a guest house finally for ...
Food of the Gods
It does sound like Valhalla doesn't it. It wouldn't be the first time I'd visited somewhere based on the name and I still regret not visiting the Rann of Kutch on this basis. I'm pretty sure that this is it's Vulcan name, although I've been ...
Train's and cricket
... . Chatting to the guy who owns my hotel, he was saying how he's not really sure if he wants further development to happen. Varkala's a lovely place now, without any of the hassle you'd expect in a beach resort. As Gupta (for that is his name) said, if ...
Varkala... the promised land
... was plentiful. Although two of our dreams came true (unfortunately not hot water), it soon became clear upon arriving in Varkala that we were wrong about kochin...Varkala was our promised land. Varkala lends itself well to my personal skill of ...
On the road again...
After a very enjoyable 11 day stay in Varkala, it is finally time to move on. I have successfully recovered from the trauma of travel around Christmas and am once again ready to face the unknown. Besides, I am pretty much a local now and am well known ...
Hanging out in Kerala
... jewelry, colourful silk clothing and lashings of black kohl for some reason, even though none of the adult women wear it. Varkala is a well developed beach town with a strip of cafes, shops and guesthouses on a palm-tree lined cliff overlooking the ...
Gott nytt år!
Nu har jag skypeat med nästan hela familjen, kul! Jag fick hemlängtan, men nu är det nyårsafton och jag ska iväg och käka snart, sitta på någon restaurang och dricka någon öl och god mat. Får se om det blir något röj eller kanske den ...
Mal Pause machen!!
... so schlimm und nach knapp 2 Stunden waren wir in Varkala und nach kurzer Rikschafahrt dann auch an der Templejunction in Varkala Beach. Nachdem wir feststellen mussten, dass die Unterkuenfte die inmitten eines Palmenhains lagen nicht so ganz unseren ...
first impressions!
... a few last days on a boat in the backwaters of Kerala mean while I will continue the treatrments, yoga and enjoyable life here in Varkala. Possibly I will do some cultural touristing. Where I will head after this, I am not yet 100% sure, but it has to be ...
Arrived in Kerala!
... of rain when were in Goa and got away without so much as a drop of rain while we were there. As its the monsoon season Varkala's about 80% closed at the moment and feeling a little deserted. Its not been too big a problem as there are still places ...
The final stretch
... yet a few more days relaxing to get over the stressfullness of travelling. So along with Hiten and Dermish we toodled off to Varkala, a small beach and travellers 'hangout' in the far south of India. At first we thought we should make a quick exit from ...
From the Backwaters to the Beach to finish...
... for a fortnight, really relaxing. Once back at the office, we checked with the people whether the 15:30 train we'd booked to Varkala was definitely the earliest one as it would have meant that we would have had to hang around in Allepey for 5 or 6 hours ...
Full Circle
Here we are back where we started. We're having our final week on the beach at Odayam. Our original landlord has closed his guest house and gone back to Sweden as it's the low season now. He recommended a place just up the road called ...
Living in the edge
We arrived to Varkala it was already dark and realized that we had reached a little paradise. Varkala is situated in a cliff bathed by the Arabian Sea. The cliff has a long stretch of small shops, restaurants, hotels, cafes and spas which goes on for over ...
Kerala
... walk back, through the town and all the way along the cliff back to package-tourist-land. We stayed for the planned 2 days in Varkala. Secretly thinking that perhaps they were two wasted days. Two precious days in our last 2 weeks of india. We needed ...
Farewell India
Cochin was unbearably humid and so i am very pleased to be by the cool sea breeze again in Varkala. It's coming to the end of the season so it's very quiet here which i actually like. I have been having a relaxing weekend swimming and eating! Met up ...