A Joke of a journey !!

After being told before getting onto the bus that we were due to arrive in Gokarna at around Sunrise, we were blissfully unaware when we were woken from sleep by the conductor repeatedly shouting ‘Gokarna, Gokarna’ at 2:30am! We were then ushered onto a smaller and seriously crammed in bus to take us the final ½ hour journey! We were NOT expecting that! Then, even worse, it dropped us off into the middle of nowhere 6km away from our destination! Then after failing to negotiate a fair Price for a rick-shaw to the beach we arrived outside a closed resort begging them to let us into their restaurant so we could sit down and try and get some more sleep. Luckily he kindly let us and a group of us sat for hours then watching a beautiful Sunrise on the beach.

quiet beach

where we were in the empty restaurant

just as the sun was rising

taking a walk

early morning

the sunrise

Completely unaware of what our night of travelling would be like we did very little for the rest of the day. We managed to find some rustic but nice accommodation on the beach for 150 rupees= £2 for a night and settled ourselves there reading books for the day whilst Chris did some fishing on the beach.

Chris fishing

His luck was actually with him after not long he caught a catfish!

Chris proud of his catch

Chris killin' the fish

a zoom in on the fish so it looks bigger

The locals were amazed by this and they soon huddled round to inspect his catch!

written by

chrischarly on December 11, 2010 from Gokarn, India

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

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honestly, i am not surprised at all, that the journey was like this! i feel sorry you really had to go through this!!! relax and have fun in Gokarna! a big hug from icecold Switzerland, reggie :-)

written by regina wunderli on December 12, 2010

i like sea, thank you.

written by sara on December 14, 2010

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