Monday 15 May 2023

Road trip from Pune to Goa, Karwar, Gokarna, Murudeshwar, Udipi and back in April 2023

Ravindra Narayan Kale drove from Pune to Goa and onwards to Gokarna, Murudeshwar, Udipi and back in April 2023. 

Day 1: Start from pune рел am. Reached Madgaon at 3 pm after lunch in Panjim. 
Pune - Kolhapur - Nipani - Ajara - Amboli - Sawantwadi - Panjim - Madgaon. 
Stayed at Hotel Nanutel Madgaon. 

Day 2: Left Madgaon for Gokarna (3 hrs drive with halts) after breakfast. 
Stopped at Karwar to visit Naval Museum. Also stopped for a while at Idagunji Ganapati Temple. 
Checked in at Hotel Namaste Samudra, Gokarna.
 
Day 3: Gokarna to Murudeshwar (2 hrs 30 mins). Stopped at Mookambika Temple, Murudeshwar Temple enroute. 
Stayed at Hotel RNS, Murudeshwar. 

Day 4: Murudeshwar to Malpe, near Udipi. 
Enroute stopped at Maravanthe Beach with Arabian Sea on the right and river on left. 
Checked in at Hotel Paradise Isle Beach Resort, Malpe for 3 nights. 

In Udipi there's Shrikrishna Temple.  
From Malpe drove to and fro Shringeri Math on Day 5 and to and fro Dharmasthal on Day 6. 

Day 7: Malpe (Udipi) - Murudeshwar - Gokarna (took ROR at Gokarna) - Yellapur - Kittur - Belgaum - Kolhapur.
Checked in at Hotel Vrushali in Kolhpaur. 

Day 8: Kolhapur - Satara - Pune 

Most of the temples had dress code for men and women for entry, viz. white lungi for men and saree/ churidar kameez for women. White lungi can be bought at the entrance of temple in Gokarna. 

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