The beach at Karwar is called the Ravindranath Tagore beach since the great poet wrote his Prakritir Pratishod while sitting at this beach - but i was not able to understand the reason for writing something called the natures revenge at a place like this - since its a really nice beach - overlooked by hills its a great view to catch - I guess anyone will fall in love with the beach...Just to quote the great poet - since its no use trying to frame my own words as i have the help of a nobel winner : "The sea beach of Karwar is certainly a fit place in which to realise that beauty of nature is not a mirage of imagination, but reflects the joy of the infinite and thus draws us to lose ourselves into it." Rabindranath Tagore,1916
The worst part was the fact that the weather was too hot even on the last weekend of december - so the beach was accesable only after 5:00 pm on both days of our stay - there is huge lot of people who come down to the beach after a days work and is one of the favorite meeting place for the locals- the other things of interest near the beach are : the toy train ride - called the dandakaranya toy train ride ; the INS Chapel war ship museum for a ride on a real warship as well as a video documentry; the Aquarium.
I believe Tagore called this place the Kashmir of Karnataka - didnt get to know the reason why though.
The karwar town is a very small place with few hotel - like the hotel bhadra , hotel paradise - and few lodges...
The two temples visited by us were the Maruti temple and a shiva temple. The priest at the Shiva temple was a charming young boy - its nice to meet a priest who had a smile on his face all the while we were there. There are things to learn from so many people - a young boy - had to open and offer prayer and opened the temple door for us to sit and rest a while - provided us with banana to eat and kept a smile on his face while we chatted in my broken kannada.
There were not too many shopping options even though the casewnuts were a option to bring back from karwar.
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