Gokarna
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After new years we hung around Pallolem for a few days but then decided that we had had enough of the same place. We looked at the map and the next set of beaches to the south was in Karanataka provence, a place called Gokarna. We had never heard of it but it was only a 3 hour train ride from the train station in Pallolem. The night before we left we met Lilly and two of her friends that she had met on the train, two girls traveling with thier families from Cork. They had headed out on thier own for a bit and had met Lilly. We all hooked up and had some food on the beach and a few drinks. I had a giant Hookah bong (filled with apple tobbaco) at the same place a few nights before and it was lovly.
We chatted and and wandered down the beach looking for some action but found bugger all. Dee was feeling a bit ill anyway so we split for an early night.
The next mornig we packed had breckfast on the beach and left for the train station in a Rickshaw as the station is a few Km outside town. It was boiling hot at the station and the train was an hour late. It was also packed to the gills and we squeezed on with our packs and I ended up hanging out of the door for the journey which was great fun if a little scary sometimes. Also after the fairly liberal attitude in Goa it was a bit of a shock for us, Dee really, for all the men just to be staring and perving at any western women on the train.
So after a few fun filled housr in teh pressure cooker train we pulled into Gokarna Road station.
We shared a taxi to the beach with an Irish girl and her spanish boyfriend who were sound. It took 30 mins to get to the beach and the sun was setting. We had to make it down a dirt cliff path and then we made ot to Om beach.
This area is known as Gokarna and south and north of the town there are a series of perfect beaches that are either completly undevoloped or have a few beach huts but no electricity. Om beach is the most popular but is also the most busy. Not busy like Goa but we could not find a bed once we got there. We decided to jump on a boat and head for a place called half moon beach a few Km south and only accessable by boat. The sun was setting when we pulled into the beach but we all could see that we had found paradise. If anywhere Ive been is like the movie 'The Beach' then this is it. Its absoultly picture perfect beach surrounded by jungle and NO buildings,roads, people, cars, cows. Also no electricity and the accomidation consisted of some bamboo huts pearched on the edge of the jungle that had to be reached by crossing giant bolders.
Thank god we have mozzie net and anti bug sheets to sleep on because you are pretty much sleeping outside in the jungle and there are a lot of bugs. That night we had a few beers with the couple we met and we all absorbed the place and its beauty. The starts at night were in thier millions and the moon seemed to hang above the tree line, giant and yellow.
The next morning the couple decided to leave as the could not handle the 'basic' conditions. Me and Dee ended up staying there for 7 or 8 days. Its was like our own private world, at night we were the only ones sat one the beach. It was a kind of solitude that is very hard to find in the world these days and we lapped up every moment of it. Our days just consisted of eating, swimming, sunbathing and the odd jungle walk up to the sunset spot. As you sit on the beach here dozens of dolphins splash about in the water in front of you. The whole place is like a Walt Disney version of a tropical Island, its all perfect.
Lilly turned up after 2 days so we had some company and one or two nights we had fire on the beach with the one or two other odd people that we staying there.
No electricity at night so we tended to be in bed buy 8.30 and up around dawn. Its wierd how your body locks into this natrual rythem when away from eletricity and disrtractions at night.
The most exciting thing that happended that week was a giant black scorpian walked through the middle of the place where we were staying and one of the local lads killed it with a big stick. giant hard looking thing it was like a evil toy. Nasty.
After new years we hung around Pallolem for a few days but then decided that we had had enough of the same place. We looked at the map and the next set of beaches to the south was in Karanataka provence, a place called Gokarna. We had never heard of it but it was only a 3 hour train ride from the train station in Pallolem. The night before we left we met Lilly and two of her friends that she had met on the train, two girls traveling with thier families from Cork. They had headed out on thier own for a bit and had met Lilly. We all hooked up and had some food on the beach and a few drinks. I had a giant Hookah bong (filled with apple tobbaco) at the same place a few nights before and it was lovly.
We chatted and and wandered down the beach looking for some action but found bugger all. Dee was feeling a bit ill anyway so we split for an early night.
The next mornig we packed had breckfast on the beach and left for the train station in a Rickshaw as the station is a few Km outside town. It was boiling hot at the station and the train was an hour late. It was also packed to the gills and we squeezed on with our packs and I ended up hanging out of the door for the journey which was great fun if a little scary sometimes. Also after the fairly liberal attitude in Goa it was a bit of a shock for us, Dee really, for all the men just to be staring and perving at any western women on the train.
So after a few fun filled housr in teh pressure cooker train we pulled into Gokarna Road station.
We shared a taxi to the beach with an Irish girl and her spanish boyfriend who were sound. It took 30 mins to get to the beach and the sun was setting. We had to make it down a dirt cliff path and then we made ot to Om beach.
This area is known as Gokarna and south and north of the town there are a series of perfect beaches that are either completly undevoloped or have a few beach huts but no electricity. Om beach is the most popular but is also the most busy. Not busy like Goa but we could not find a bed once we got there. We decided to jump on a boat and head for a place called half moon beach a few Km south and only accessable by boat. The sun was setting when we pulled into the beach but we all could see that we had found paradise. If anywhere Ive been is like the movie 'The Beach' then this is it. Its absoultly picture perfect beach surrounded by jungle and NO buildings,roads, people, cars, cows. Also no electricity and the accomidation consisted of some bamboo huts pearched on the edge of the jungle that had to be reached by crossing giant bolders.
Thank god we have mozzie net and anti bug sheets to sleep on because you are pretty much sleeping outside in the jungle and there are a lot of bugs. That night we had a few beers with the couple we met and we all absorbed the place and its beauty. The starts at night were in thier millions and the moon seemed to hang above the tree line, giant and yellow.
The next morning the couple decided to leave as the could not handle the 'basic' conditions. Me and Dee ended up staying there for 7 or 8 days. Its was like our own private world, at night we were the only ones sat one the beach. It was a kind of solitude that is very hard to find in the world these days and we lapped up every moment of it. Our days just consisted of eating, swimming, sunbathing and the odd jungle walk up to the sunset spot. As you sit on the beach here dozens of dolphins splash about in the water in front of you. The whole place is like a Walt Disney version of a tropical Island, its all perfect.
Lilly turned up after 2 days so we had some company and one or two nights we had fire on the beach with the one or two other odd people that we staying there.
No electricity at night so we tended to be in bed buy 8.30 and up around dawn. Its wierd how your body locks into this natrual rythem when away from eletricity and disrtractions at night.
The most exciting thing that happended that week was a giant black scorpian walked through the middle of the place where we were staying and one of the local lads killed it with a big stick. giant hard looking thing it was like a evil toy. Nasty.
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