Bengaluru To Goa: Road Tripping Through Karnataka (And Beyond!)

21/11/2022.Reading time 54 minutes.

Palm trees line a beach with fishing boats upturned. In the foreground is the garden of a beachfront villa.

All about our Karnataka road trip from Bengaluru to the coast via Belur all the way to Goa with tips on best things to do and where to eat and stay.

Evolve Back Safari Lodge – A Kabini River Romance

14/09/2017.Reading time 11 minutes.

This is our first time in Kabini during the rains. Our two previous visits were deliberately planned around the dry period between February – April, when the parched land forces its wild denizens out into clearings around the river, almost guaranteeing big cat sightings. This time it is the jungle that is the hero, in […]

Ekadanta – The Single Tusked One

12/09/2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A chance encounter, for me as sublime as if I had come face to face with his divine namesake! This was my first time on a boat safari…thanks to Evolve Back Kuruba Safari Lodge. Back soon with more from Kabini. Stay well.

Evolve Back Hampi – Experiencing The Spirit Of The Land

06/01/2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

Where to stay in Hampi? You can’t do better than Evolve Back Hampi to fully experience the spirit of that enchanted land. Read full review.

Hampi, India – The Echoes of Glory

24/10/2016.Reading time 16 minutes.

Hampi, India, and its temples and rock studded landscape make it one of the most atmospheric UNESCO Heritage Sites in the country.

Postcards From Kabini

31/03/2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Indian safari model prohibits the entry of private vehicles into national game parks. Even highways cutting through the large parks are sealed from 6pm to 6am. While we spied several vehicles piled up at the barricades across the main road through Nagarhole National Park well past six, and are certain that a few of the drivers huddled around the rangers […]

The Lesser Denizens Of Nagarhole Park

06/06/2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

In my excitement over the charismatic Mr. Leopard and the elephant family, I neglected to introduce you to the less elusive inhabitants of Nagarhole National Park These creatures might not recieve prominent billing in the star cast of the jungle, but they are no less delightful, and we later regretted not spending enough time with them in our futile hunt for the tiger. […]

A Tryst With Divine Spirits!

12/05/2014.Reading time 7 minutes.

The literal meaning of Bhuta in Tulu – my mother tongue and also the predominant language of South Kanara district in coastal Karnataka – is ghost. But the Bhutas of the ritual worship called Bhuta Kola that take place annually in ancestral homes across the region are not the restless spectres the word conjures up. They are divinities…deified […]

A Wild Weekend!

25/04/2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

To see a tiger in the wild has been a lifelong dream of mine and when a dear friend invited us to join him for a safari at the Nagarhole (Kabini) reserve near Mysore, R & I readily agreed. Mr. Tiger stubbornly refused to make an appearance but we were amply compensated by the sight […]