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2023 - The Year That Was

Places impact you for a variety of reasons. And the same place impacts different people in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to spiritual experiences, where every single person’s experience is unique. And personally, every spiritual experience is unique, the same person can have different deeply spiritual experiences at different places, at different times. This thought has emerged because of my own experiences over the years, but especially so this year, with different and unique experiences at various places I have visited recently. I began this year with a visit to Baroda (Vadodara) with friends. It was meant to be a relaxed trip, a touristy trip, with our sons. We enjoyed ourselves to the hilt, but the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Lakulisha temple at Pavagadh. It was the iconography of the temple that I connected with, and I spent a few hours simply lost in the details of the figures carved around the temple. There was an indefinable connect with
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A Proposed trip to Mangalore

Writing a travel blog is tough at times. I have written about travel experiences that were fresh in my mind, and now have nothing much to write about. Memories of older tours are faded, and I am not confident of doing justice to them at this point, and as of now,school's in full flow, and there is no chance of travelling anywhere.
And yet, I cant seem to manage without writing something... So here goes....
My sister in law asked me to make a travel plan for temples around Mangalore during January, and I have done my best by researching all the places on the net.
Now, I am putting my plan up online, so all of you out there who have been there , done that, can look over it and tell me if it is possible to cover all the places, the way we have planned.

SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME

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  1. AnonymousApril 23, 2008 at 2:35 AM

    Mangalore journey is incomplete without visiting Jog Falls, Mangla Devi Temple and Udupi Krishna temple!

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  2. Anuradha ShankarApril 23, 2008 at 3:25 PM

    Thanks a lot. i have included both, Magala Devi temple and Sri Krishna templ in my programme, but Jog falls we have left out because of lack of time. But yes, I agree that it a very beautuful place, and a tour of Magalore would be incomplete without it.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2008 at 1:37 PM

    hi

    so did you undertake this journey?
    if so please post the travelogue.
    i have been planning to do this circuit since ages

    thanks
    subbu

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  4. Anuradha ShankarSeptember 17, 2008 at 7:53 PM

    HI Subbu,
    yes, I did undertake the journey, and have written about it in my later posts.... please do look at http://anushankarn.blogspot.com/2008/05/coastal-karnataka-temple-tour.html
    and later posts

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  5. AnonymousMarch 20, 2009 at 6:08 PM

    madam

    please let me know some travel companies or contacts of travel persons/ driver whom you regard as reliable and knowledgeable.

    that will help me in travel as i am travelling with my family and will not be taking any bus.

    subbu

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  6. Anuradha ShankarMarch 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM

    Hi Subbu,

    Since I did not hire a car from Mangalore, i regret that will not be able to help you in this matter..... If you can send me your e-mail address, I can try and check out from a few people and let you know... otherwise, please keep checking my site.. as sooon as i get the info, i shall put it up
    Anu

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  7. AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 5:35 PM

    hi madam

    my e-mail id is v_subbu14@yahoo.com.

    please send the information to this e-mail id.

    thanks
    subbu

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  8. Subramanian vsApril 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM

    hi madam

    thanks to your excel plan , I was able to tweak it and planned according to my travel needs and leave plans

    i covered managalore temples, beaches, bekal fort

    day 1: subramanya and dharamasthala

    day 2 : sringeri full day, missed out on horanadau

    day 3: udupi darshan and kollur and beaches

    day 4: early morning darshan at udupi and nearby places and back to mangalore in the evening

    thanks for your support and insights

    regards
    subbu

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  9. UnknownDecember 5, 2014 at 6:21 PM

    Hi Anuradha,

    Thanks for sharing information about Mangalore tourism. This will help me to plan my trip accordingly.

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