EP 15 Yellapur to Murudeshwar | Yaana caves, Vibhuti falls, Kumta handicrafts

This is episode number 15 of our Coastal Karnataka tour, we started this journey from Mangalore and went up to Yellapur and then returned back to Mangalore.

Just in case if you have missed the series, it will be better to see the Karnataka series from 1st episode, link below:

EP 1 Mangalore tour: https://bit.ly/3s4C4xv

Just in case if you have missed watching the previous episode you can check out the link below:

Yellapur Siddi community interaction:  https://bit.ly/3ePhpcZ

Siddis are people of African origin, they came to India about 400 years back with Arabs and settled in India. As of now there are about 50k Siddis in Yellapur region of Karnataka.
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Key information with regard to this tour ie journey from Yellapur to Murudeshwar

Vibhuti falls - our first halt was at Vibhuti falls, you have to walk 1 km to reach this falls, nice place but you can’t go near the falls, you have to look at it from distance.

Yaana caves - Though the distance from Vibhuti falls to Yaana caves is only 8 km but it took us 40 min to reach there, as the road was not good. You have to walk half a km to reach Yaana caves from the parking lot. Caves are really beautiful, if you are at yellapur and following the same route, then you will have to put yaana parking lot in Google maps to reach this location and follow the route we followed.

Mirjan fort - This fort comes just before Kumta , you just need to take a diversion for half a km to visit this fort, if you are travelling on the same route, you can visit this fort.

Pandurang restaurant - Kumta - We went on to have our lunch at this restaurant - nice food, we had thali at this place, it costed us Rs 95 per person.

Kumta handicrafts - Mahalasa handicrafts is an old shop in Kumta,  though there are many other shops in Kumta where you can see and buy traditional handicrafts.

Keremane shabhu Hegde Rashtriya Natyosava - They started this venture about 88 years back and they promote Yakshagana across various regions of coastal karnataka, they have a Gurukul as well. It was a lovely experience to meet the owner of this institute

Gunvanthe restaurant - This small eatery is at a walking distance from the above mentioned Keremane institute., Thuppa dosa of this mall eatery is famous.

Idagunji MahaGanapthi temple - This temple is about 20 kms short of Murudeshwar. It was really a great experience to visit this temple, you will do darshan of Lord Ganapathi in standing position at this temple.

Night stay at Murudeshwar - we stayed at hotel RNS residency at Murudeshwar, nice hotel, tariff on double occupancy sea facing room rs 3000.

Hope you enjoyed watching this episode, if you  have any suggestion or query, pl. Feel free to write to me in comments below.

After this episode you will see one more episode of Coastal Karnataka, which will be about local Murudeshwar tour then you will see we proceeded for Mangalore and upon reaching there we got chance to see Yakshagana.

After Coastal Karnataka tour you will see Mathur and Vrindavan series, there are about 6 episodes in this series.

Thanks
Harish Bali