Malpe beach is around 6 km from Udipi and is an ideal picnic place with its virtuous beach. The interminable unfold of golden sand with gracefully swinging palm trees and the clean blue sky with the ripple of the sea is an ideal place for spending one's vacation. A perfect holiday resort for boating, fishing and bathing. It is a very famous fishing harbor with tourist ferryboats.
The Maple Beach is quite different as it is a long and broad town beach which is yet to develop.
Murudeshwar of Bhatkal taluk in Uttara Kannada district is around 165 km from Mangalore on the National Highway attracting lot of devotees and tourists to the place. This picturesque place situated between Honnavara and Bhatkal. Bounded by the Arabian Sea and rolling hills of Western Ghats, the place is a favorite picnic spot. Probably the finest beach, temple, restaurants, guest houses, resorts & beautiful garden in coastal karnataka and the most popular.
The sea is an intrinsic part of the temple scape at Murudeshwar. The sea on three sides surrounds the temple towering on the small hill called Kanduka Girion three sides. Two life-size elephants in concrete stand guard at the steps leading to the temple. As one ascends the hillock, there is a shrine of Jattiga seated on a horse. There is a huge fort behind the temple, said to have been renovated by King Tippu sultan of Mysore. Evening visit to see sunset at sun set point is real fulfilling experience. View of small boats and fishermen coming back to their houses from quite distances and different sides in the sea make every body feel the mesmerizing evening.
The main attraction of Murudeshwar is Shiva temple, this sacred place presents some beautiful carvings and statues, which has a history that dates back to a few centuries (Threthayuga). The temple which embodies a Shiva Linga is believed to have erupted when Ravana (Demon King of Lanka) flung the cloth covering the Atmalinga at Gokarna while lifting it. Lord Shiva, following a complicated sequence of events, declared that Murudeshwara should be one of his five holy places.
In Mysore, Dussehra is
easily the most popular festival. It is celebrated on a grandiose scale here.
Elephants are decked up with robes and jewelery and taken in processions
through the streets of the city. In fact, many people visit Mysore from all
over the country to watch this colorful event. There is also a floating
festival in the temple tank at the foot of Chamundi
Hill and a procession of chariots around the temple at the top.
The Dussehra of Mysore or Mysore Dassara as it is famously
called is a 10-day long festival. On the day of Dussehra, a procession of
caparisoned elephants carrying the idol of goddess Chamundi is taken through
the city. The festival is celebrated in a grand style with scores of cultural
performances in the great Durbar
Hall of the Maharaja's Palace. On Vijaydashami, the 10th day of the
festival, a colorful procession featuring caparisoned elephants winding through
the gaily-decorated streets of the city, mark the occasion.
Mysore Palace Illumination Timings
07.00 pm - 08.00 pm
Only on Sundays, National Holidays and State Festivals.
During the Dasara Festival Mysore Palace is illuminated between 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Mysore Dasara 2010 will be celebrated from 8th to 17th of October.
Mysore Palace Sound & light show is not a launched.
