Gokarna- A little piece of paradise

Hello there,
First time ever i have heard about Gokarna is from some travel blog. In description , it totally looked like my kind of place so ever since this place was on our travel list. Finally on Jan 2016 long weekend we finally stepped there and yes it was way prettier than how it was described.

Place Details:
Those who have never heard about Gokarna, it is a sleepy small town in coastal Karnataka(close to Goa). It also has pilgrimage site of Murudeshwer nearby.

Things We Loved :
Well to the people who just want some nice, beautiful place away from regular life. This place is perfectly for you. People who want a very happening time i don't think Gokarna promises that.Water is perfect  blue and beaches have fine sand and very clean( at par with beaches from south Goa & 1000 times better than Calangute/Bagha). It's not jam packed place. Most of the tourists there are foreigners.

Cons:
1. Infrastructure is not very developed. You can't find many resorts kind of things(There are few you can checkout in google). Set ups are basic hut.
Food was amazing and eating itself is too much fun.
2. Connectivity is poor(at least i think that). For us it was train journey from HYD-HUBLI. then bus ride to Gokarna covering few places of interest on the way. Thanks to the Jumbo group we were travelling with,this journey felt like breeze. If we would have traveled alone journey itself might have frustrated us.
3. Few Beaches: Please don't think it is just like Goa. In Goa in every few kilometers there are beaches and options are many with individual preference. Here Its just 3- Kudle Beach, Om beach and Gokarna beach. The last beach is mostly crowded with people of spiritual thirst. Kudle and Om beaches are perfect for other tourist. There are two more beaches named as halfmoon  beach & paradise beach which you can reach after some hiking. They were ok not something amazing.

My Recommendation
I loved stay and food@ Kudle beach.

Here are photo journey:

Sunset @ Paradise beach

Top view of Paradise beach

Few Yoga enthusiasts

Kids getting ready for the game

Top view of Gokarna Beach

Just me

Me and Hubby trying hard for a nice selfie

Please let me know by comments if you like my piece.
Stay Healthy, keep travelling and happy blogging

XOXO
Mini

Glipse Of My Nomadic Life

Hello there,

I don't call myself a traveler but it does stand a unique lifestyle to me which i am always inspired to live.
I love the feeling of being on road where vistas changes every kilometer.
Food on highway dhabas taste divine to me. It lets me venture out my restricted hygienic food criteria.
And most precious treasures on different road are the people with different stories. 
There is hell lot of things to learn and also to unlearn. It's not wise to carry the load of everything happened in our life. we need to empty the bucket sometimes to fill it with new experiences.

Here are glimpses of our nomadic life (which occurs few times in an year)
Pics are taken during our trekking to Annapurna Base Camp, Nepal.

@ New Delhi airport, while taking flight for Kathmandu, Nepal

@ A restaurant on the way to Pokhara, Nepal

@ Pokhara, the foot town for all trekking expeditions.

@ Annapurna Base camp

No doubt life is most beautiful when you keep doing what you are passionate for.
I am not a full time traveler. I have a full time job which i love from bottom of my heart and yes money matters to me. So as of now leaving my job and taking travel in full swing is not in plan.   
( Though  i have been inspired to do so after reading many successful blogger and full time traveler)
Hope i will keep on posting regularly.
If you like my write up, do post comments. If you have suggestions i would be more than happy to incorporate.
Stay Healthy and Happy Traveling. 

XOXO
Ranu

Office.....

Sometime your workplace become very challenging like today for me. Things go wrong one after another leaving you skeptical about your capabilities. I am an aircraft engineer where Female to male ratio is very very low. Action from my end is mostly overcompensating for me being woman. I am always extra careful in my work so that no-one can raise a finger on my compatibility with my profession. Yet today few mistakes left me disheartened. Well i think i take it too personally. When things go wrong I take it too much on my self respect which actually deplete my self confidence. I know "To err is human". But i am not sure when will i be able to learn to take it normally..

P.S. - Here attaching one pics of happy days in workplace.

Lonely.......

Hiii there
Sometime in life we feel extremely lonely. I do it sometime and today is one of them. It's not i am scared of it but understanding it better helps me to get over it fast.
My understanding so far says many battles in life is meant to be fought solo. No-one NOT even your life partner can help you by any means. So STOP  complaining.  This is over expectation that someone has a magic stick and can solve your problem when you who has best understanding of the whole situation is struggling to get some light. I think we expect too much from our life partner or may be we are expecting minimum but they can't even acknowledge that. But being disappointed or frustrated can not solve problem, it may aggravate that. So i have made my mind No more Cry baby for not getting motivation and outside support for fitness, No more effort for trying hard to make me understand  correctly. No more stupid question if i am putting on weight or not and wait for approval. Like many other this is solo battle for being better and being happy.
Hoping for the best and the GAME IS ON...

P.S: Attaching  a selfie of thoughtful me which was taken in Virupaksha Temple, Hampi.

 

Thoughtful..............??

Hiiia Everyone

Happy New Year 2015 Amigos.

As January is about to pass what is the progress on your new year resolutions? Are your are in pace with them or slipping behind??

My observation so far about life is, it never flows in uniform speed. Either i am too high or too drowned, too excited or completely gone. I am not sure is it just me who has this issue or everyone has it one or other time. Taking benefit of doubt i think i have this manufacturing defect in me. Anyways as i am growing i am in the process of shorting this out.I have been more thoughtful these days. I have no intention to offend anyone but i have considerable dislike for self help books. My experience with them are that they will make you dreamy and do lots or promises. Which they fulfill obviously BUT very temporarily. That is the reason which make me picking biographies or random stories of interest instead of them. However i came across a book named "MiniHabits". Now a days busy reading it and surprisingly liking it too. So if you are also one who are slipping behind your new year resolution or frustrated for not meeting your self expectation  AND of course ready to spend INR 381 i believe one must give it a trial.

Happy Reading & Happy Blogging.

Here attaching image taken at Hampi, Karnataka where we celebrated our new year.

New Beginning At New Home

Last six months were hectic. Work place was demanding more than ever and our new coming house was taking everything else remaining. From saving every extra penny to working your heart out it was all.
Finally our new house is ready and we moved in. Now i can feel it does give joy more than it took toll on both of us. Watching lovely sunrise from our balcony is soothing so is the sunset completely mesmerizing.
Right now life is in complain-free zone. Workplace is relaxing and home stay  is meditating.As you all are my extended family and part of my joy, here i am sharing pics of my new home. It's been quite a job to make the woodwork done as per your taste when your budget is not as high as your dreams are. So we made carpenter do basic woodwork and i took the job to decorate it to our taste. Many lessons we learnt in this quest.
Detail story i will share some other time. So here comes my Home Sweet Home......

SUNSET FROM MY BALCONY

ENTRANCE CORRIDOR

OUR WORLD FOR TWO

GUEST ROOM

LIVING ROOM

OUR BEDROOM

SITTING SPACE AT BED ROOM

MY LUCKY BAMBOO 

DINNING SPACE FOR TWO

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STUDY ROOM CUM HOME OFFICE

 
Hope to keep posting more regular and till then Happy Blogging... :) :)
Mini

Is it only me- Materialistic pangs?

Hiii Everyone

It's been looong no?

Well finally after months of sloppy time,my life has come back to normal flow.Work place is no more haunting me. In fact pretty big challenges are in pipeline. I again started enjoying the 9.5 Hour of corporate life which passes in no time. Presently i am having  less complain regarding incomplete plans and lagging. So overall happy going :) :) :) 

Pic Coutesy:Google

It's Friday and i am not Friday night hangout person(except when i am travelling) i decided to clean my stuffs. Recently i had given away many of my cloths to the people who needs them more than I. But today once again i realized that i  have trunk full of more cloths  to get rid off(i mean it,seeing them makes me sick).Here comes my problem. I have really big number of cloths i wear occasionally.Even big number of cloths i see and wonder what the hell was in my mind when i bought them.Few are still bought back in previous century and still having price tag ON(exaggerated but you know what i mean :) ).But when you decide to give them away suddenly they start appearing  most promising.I doubt myself if i am most materialistic person on the earth or I need dose of some self help book for not shopping.Just to present it righly i am not a shopping person.In fact going to shopping mall is second last option if i need to kill my time(last one in list is watching TV).But yes i do love cloths and experiments a lot with it but also understand the futility of the happiness it gives.

So ladies please tell me, is it only me or you all go same or similar type of feeling in time or is it just a phase?
If you have overcome the problem please do share your experience.

Love
Ranu
Happy Blogging