Amrutheshwara Temple
One must admit the fact that the Hoysala dynasty is the major contributor to the heritage richness of our Karnataka state. They built hundreds of beautifully carved temples around Bangalore. No technology of present...
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Kemmannu Hanging Bridge
As I mentioned before, this post shows yet another example of how some beautiful places around us are overlooked by us until we go out and explore with the open aspect. But often we...
Delta Beach
Delta Beach or Kodi Bengre Beach is one of the unique beaches in Udupi where the confluence of the Suvarna river and Sita river merges with the Arabian Sea. The unique feature of this...
Hangarakatte Ferry Point
How many of you have sailed across the river by Barge? Barge is a kind of ship which is usually used to transport vehicles along with the passengers across a river crossing usually in...
Kukkude and Honnala
Kukkude is one of the many delta regions around coastal town Udupi. Honnala is another coastal village adjacent to Kukkude. Both are just 2.5 km away from each other. When searching for a getaway,...
Kallu Ganapathi Temple
Kallu Ganapathi Temple is one of the beautiful temples hidden inside a small village called Shiriyara of Udupi district. This temple is unknown even to many natives of Udupi, and it makes a perfect...
Mekkekattu Nandikeshwara Temple
Mekkekattu Nandikeshwara Temple is one of the very distinct temples in Udupi with the presence of hundreds of mysterious wooden dolls inside the temple. Close to a historical place Barkur, this temple is one...
Heroor Hanging Bridge
Located in the Udupi district Hidden and unknown even to locals of Udupi, Heroor hanging bridge place makes it into the second episode of Udupi Unexplored. This place is 13 kms from Udupi and...
Aroor – Udupi Unexplored
Usually when a place gets famous as a tourist destination, slowly and steadily that place changes to accommodate the tastes of the visiting tourists. Over the period of time the place loses its original...
Udupi Unexplored
What comes to your mind when you think of Udupi? Slowly disappearing Sun at crowded Malpe beach? Spiritual feel at the famous Krishna temple or numerous divine temples spread across the district? Aerial sea...
Bhoga Nandeeshwara Temple
Hidden Gems We talked about how a place gets sidelined because of a more popular place located near it in our previous post on Gommatagiri. This post is yet another classic example of another...
Kaveri Nisargadhama
When you are traveling from Mysore to Coorg, right after Kushalnagara, you wouldn’t miss this place with some tourist activities around and a beautiful forest area bit away from the highway. That place is...
Gommatagiri
It is common that when something shines brighter beside a tiny piece of treasure, it gets ignored or gets less attention. Tourists visiting Mysore usually fill their places to visit list with Chamundi Hills,...
Panchapalli dam
After a week-long of sitting at home/office, when the urge is too much to get out and explore around a bit, how do you look out for suggestions for the weekend outings? Do you...
Banavasi Madhukeshwara temple
Reaching Banavasi Sun was slowly setting at the west and so was our hope to see Madhukeshwara temple in daylight. It was already 5:30 pm. We were still at Sirsi town and Banavasi was...
Sirsi Marikamba Temple
After spending relaxing time amid nature at Magod Falls we got into the car and headed towards our next destination Sirsi Marikamba temple. Even though we two had visited the temple earlier for my...
Magod Falls
Sonde to Yellapur It was already 12:30 PM and in the next 6 hours we had to drive to the Magod falls via Yellapura with zero ideas about road conditions and come back to...
Sonda Vadiraja Matha
Unlike Sahasralinga which we both had visited before, Sonda Vadiraja Matha was a black box for us. We knew there were some religious rules to enter the mutt formally or to perform certain rituals...
Sahasralinga
The Plan It was day 2 of our Uttara Kannada Sirsi trip. We got up early and started early in the morning by 7-30 by checking out from the hotel we stayed in Kumta....
Yana Caves
After Mirjan Fort After spending around 1 hr at Mirjan fort, we headed back to Kumta at 1 pm. The plan was to check in to the hot Mahalaxmi comforts at Kumta (where we...