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This tinsel town offers you umpteen opportunities to shoot life on the streets. So today after breakfast we just set off to explore this town on our own by walk.  Before we begin this journey, I want to give you all a background about this place so that you will be able to relate this with the rest of the content in my blog.  Here goes the Legend :  Ramayana’s very famous character Ravana (Demon king of Lanka) performed severe penance in Mount Kailash to bring Load Shiva’s Atmalinga for his mom to worship. Lord Shiva gets impressed with his penance and gives him his Atmalinga with one condition that it should never be placed on the ground till he reaches the designated location. In case if he places it on ground, it will remain rooted on the spot and will not be able to take it out. With that Ravana started his journey to Sri Lanka from Mt Kailash. All the gods will be worried now since with this boon, Ravana will be even more powerful and unstoppable. They pray to Lord Vishnu and Lord

Gokarna which was once a center of pilgrimage has been off late famous for its beach treks and Yoga relaxation centers as well. In this blog, I will take you through some of the offbeat and less crowded places if you are looking for a relaxing and peaceful getaway.   We booked our stay at Kudle Ocean front resort this time since most of the places I had listed down were closer to this resort(Kudle Beach road) and also after a day long of tiredness in the evenings we could just take a relaxing  stroll along the Kudle beach. We asked at the resort front desk to arrange for a vehicle and a knowledgeable driver who is well versed with all the routes and can take us to all these places around.  Mallikarjuna Temple at Ashoke This temple is the first spot we visited. AS you start driving on the Kudle beach road towards Gokarna town, you just need to take a right towards Ramachandrapura Matha side. Keep driving along this road and then you will see signboard of this temple with a gate which is