Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The coolest little beach town ( except for the cliff)

Celias View : Varkala, India 2006 December


We had pretty much come to Varkala, a little beach town built on a cliff on a whim, basically to fill in some time before heading to our ashram but without any doubt it has become our favourite place on the entire trip.

Theres nothing particular about the place ....It is just a simple beach at the bottom of a big cliff but its just one of those places where everything just clicks into place....

For instance....

We got a great room for the three of us, for no more than the double price, in a funky little bamboo hut but that was really nice on the inside....

We found a great little juice bar almost straight away that made yummy chai masala, great beetroot apple and ginger juices as well as many others, healthy wraps or muesli and yoghurt and.......vegemite on toast. All very cheaply. Not only that but the owner Umesh lets us borrow his full India lonely planet and helped us out as much as possible.

The beach had great waves, just big enough for Curt to still be interested and just little enough for Netty to go further than she ever has in the sea before and even manage to catch a few waves!

The weather was picture perfect , not too hot but definately hot enough to tan, swim and play in...

Cute puppies and kittens ran about on the cliff and our little bamboo hut had a pathway that was well suited to firetwirling practice ( except maybe for the coconuts above)


The only real problem was my new found fear of heights ( completely connected to my new fear of flying and of trains and tubes ...obviously excellent timing since we are travelling on all of them ) was getting completely out of control. It meant I couldnt walk along the cliff path without help, suffered from vertigo really and diziness and sometimes tears just cause we were so close to the cliff edge.

Aside from that it was the perfect little beach town!

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