Mangalore, India

This is our second time in Mangalore. We did temples and city on our first visit, so today our tour took us away from Mangalore. The city we visited is Karkala. It’s located 60km from Mangalore which took us 1.5 hours. Not too far, but driving in India is let’s say challenging,
Today’s tour was organized by Erin. We joined them and Pat and Norm. All friends from 2017.

Karkala dates to ten century. Our first stop was to see 42 foot tall statue from 15th century, curved from one piece of granite. It is a religious site for Jain worshipers. That is the religion from this area.
That was the furthers point from the port we would go. On our way back to the ship, we stopped in Moodabidri town. We visited Soans Farm.

It is a farm/botanical farm with lots of tropical exotic fruit trees and plants. We had a chance to try some of them and also purchase more mangos.

Then after that, we went to the the Jain Temple. Another worship site of Jain religion. It was also build in 15tg century and know as 1000 pillars. All pillars are different. The temple is considered an architectural wonder and is a major attraction of Moodabidri.

Our last stop was a market. No purchases made there.
Nice shower after hot day and dinner in the Main Dinning RoomRead more