KREC beach, Surathkal

This is a very nice place to spend your evening. There is a Shiva temple too near the beach and a light house. You can take Darshan at the temple and then go to the top of the light house and have an aerial look around the place, which covers KREC campus and temple and surrounding places. You have to pay a little entry fee for this tower and they will allow you only before 5.00 PM, not sure if they have changed the timing these days.

The beach is very beautiful, but very risky one as it gets deeper soon and there is no much flat land where you can get into water and enjoy, so better not go much into water, rather just wet your legs and enjoy outside water. This is not much developed commercially as compared to Malpe, as you don’t find any wave runner or parasailing. This beach is actually the property of KREC and a kind of un-touched beach, where one can enjoy the natural beauty of the sea. Crowd is not that heavy.

There is a Ghost road, which was so scary in our college days, this road starts adjacent to the KREC STEP, and joins you to the beach, but now they have cut all the trees on the side of that road, and it no more scary, I have put a picture of the same for your reference here.

To reach here, you need to get down right in front of KREC, engineering college and walk some distance towards Mangalore until you find the fifth hostel block gate of KREC, and right in front of that is the road which leads to the Shiva temple and right beside the temple is the road leads to the light house and the beach. It won’t be that difficult to find the way, you can ask anyone there, people are so kind by heart and anybody would help you.

Maravante, Kundapura

This is a beautiful beach to enjoy your evening with, it’s few Kms after Kundapur towards Kollur. You can reach this place may be after visiting the Kollur temple on the way back to Kundapur, so that an evening can be spent here. This place is special because of its geographical location where the national highway separates the river and the Arabian Sea. Amazing view, and a must visit place.

Saint Mary’s Island, Malpe

This is one of the wonderful places to see in Mangalore, a Natural Island, said to be visited by Vasko-di-gama when he visited India for the first time. There is plenty of sand covered area where you can enjoy your visit, they normally do not allow you to get into water, but then you can always get into water for some time when they are not around. But the place is not safe to go far in water. So be careful and stay close by.

There is a boat facility which takes you to this Island from Malpe beach, you may have to pay some 70/- for the same. You may not enjoy the travel as they play some crap music aloud, but when you land in the Island it’s worth tolerating that music for that while.

You get nice sea food cooked in front of you, when you visit never forget to taste few fishes, to have a feel of Mangalore. If you wish to have some more Mangalorean fishes don’t forget to visit a Restaurant “Fish Land” in Manipal, a city 3Kms from Udupi famous for its medical institute and hospital, the Restaurant is just on right side when you are about enter the city from karkala side. On the other way when you are about to leave the city to Karkala.

Malpe Beach, Udupi

A place very close to my house around 20-30 minutes drive from my home, a 10 minutes drive from Udupi, nearby city and district capital. On NH-17 near Karavali by-pass is the road which leads to this wonderful beach, which these days have been developed to attract tourists provide a class resort facility, wave runner, parasailing, beach side huts and restaurants. Evening time is the best time to visit this place, there will be moderate crowd on weekends. There is paid parking space near the beach.

Saint Mary’s Island can be reached from here, they have a boat facility, was costing some 70/- at the time I visited.