Varkala, India Travel Blogs

road trip
Dec 31, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 return ...

Varkala
Mar 27, 2006 (7 photos)

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
Jan 1, 2008

... 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 might add ...

Thailand?Italy?Nepal? I've been here before
Jan 25, 2007

... 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 7$, ...

Train's and cricket
Nov 2, 2006 (10 photos)

... . 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 more ...

Yet another beach..but this one is very different!
Mar 28, 2007 (8 photos)

... to get 2 buses but wasn't too bad, I got the bus with Luke, the Aussie guy from the boat.  We arrived here in Varkala and got a rickshaw up to the cliff, which is where all the accomodation and restaurants etc are. I like it a lot here, it's ...

On the road again...
Jan 9, 2007

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
Nov 15, 2008

... 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 ...

Varkala
Jan 1, 2007 (2 photos)

... local produce and spices and of course the local ayurvedic products.  This part of the trip was all about decadence.  Varkala beach  is a large white sand beach with gentle clear water. There is a cliff which surrounds the beach where all of ...

Mal Pause machen!!
Feb 17, 2009 (10 photos)

... 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!
Jan 12, 2008

... 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 ...

The final stretch
Dec 27, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Varkala
Dec 8, 2009 (27 photos)

... hunt around for some accommodation and found a place for 300 rupees on North Cliff just back from the beach, nice enough place. Varkala is a beach town in South Kerala, all the shops, restaurants and hotels line the cliff which the beach below, the place ...

Full Circle
Mar 17, 2009

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 ...

Kerala
Aug 9, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 stimulation ...

Farewell India
Mar 26, 2006

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 ...

Happy New Year!
Jan 3, 2007 (4 photos)

... for an indefinite amount of time without going into debt. Still can't imagine coming back to the States. Being in Varkala, which is absolute paradise, has allowed me to relax and take the much needed time to understand and appreciate the Indian ...

Cruising the backwaters in style
Mar 5, 2007 (21 photos)

... then take photos of me doing so. I think they'd definately have to pay me for that priviledge. On to Varkala that same afternoon, a spectacular beach encircled by red cliffs which support a long line of shops, restaurants and guesthouses. The two ...

Cliff hangers in Varkala
Sep 5, 2008 (14 photos)

... perhaps does not compete with its Thai equivalents, but for us represented the resort that we have been looking for. Varkala (and India in general) seems to attract a much more diverse crowd of travellers of different ages and nationalities, so it was ...

Varkala
Jan 22, 2007

Varkala

Travellers Varkala
Apr 2, 2007 (25 photos)

... crazy cab for the two hour trip to Varkala. Feeling lucky to be alive we soon settled into traveller's mode in the laid back Varkala. The accommodation, shops and restaurants hug the top of the cliff in a long line, with a great beach at the bottom.  ...

Harris's Travel Entry
Feb 16, 2008

... with you all. I need to go body surfing in the Arabian Sea right now, because it is really hot in Varkala, Kerala! I'll try to write again before we return to the U.S. P.S. There was a two-inch long cockroach in the bathroom of our ...

Hanging out in Kerala
Nov 15, 2008

... 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 ...

Headphones, Hampi and elephants
Feb 6, 2009

... our 38 hour journey to southern Kerala, it shouldn't of taken quite so long but our last train didn't bother to stop at Varkala, the Indians found it quite funny that a) we were sitting on the floor in the corridor with the cockroaches because we didn't ...

Varkala
Nov 4, 2005

... quid each. Tracey can spend that on shopping instead now, hooray. We've just realised we have spent most of our time in India by the coast. Suppose if we spent our time in city centres it would be a bit wierd, the lovely pollution and urine stench ...

Varkala
Sep 13, 2007 (15 photos)

We were only meant to spend three days but the beautiful beach, fabulous food and great people we met kept us there for a bit longer.....nearly three weeks!

the art of asking for directions
Jan 31, 2007

... the very southern tip of the subcontinent - and made our way slightly north to a little speck on the map called varkala. a grand tour of india by plane, train, bus, rickshaw, taxi, and, occasionally, foot.  travelling in india - like, actually moving ...

time for more of the beach
Mar 23, 2009

... and presently surprised when we witnessed teams of people walking the beach to clean it, however we were soon brought back to India as all the rubbish they had collected so methodically was taken to the back of the beach and dumped behind the rocks only ...

Further down the western coast
Sep 27, 2006

There was plenty of warning that India was an unpredictable country so it wasn't too big a surprise when, during the daily stroll in search of breakfast, a bus-load of police arrived in Palolem. They came to enforce a previously ignored licensing law that ...

Wickering in Varkala
Nov 12, 2005

... the cliff. Watching the waves from high above and being hypnotized by the rhythm of the ocean was unforgettable. The best part of Varkala was our company. Big shout-out to Andrew and Phil (our Aussie friends) and Sophie (our Kiwi friend). Five days in ...