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The Konkan Railway has launched coastal Karnataka economy tours as a premier effort to bring unexplored coastal Karnataka on the tourist map of India.
The four-day tour begins from Mumbai and provides accommodation arrangements at Three star Railotel at Kumta near Karwar. The hotel has twin-bedded rooms and full-fledged restaurant. The Railotel is base station from where the entire tour is organized.
The tour fare is priced at Rs.6,000 per adult and Rs. 4,000/- per child, inclusive of train travel, AC bus travel to various sites, hotel accommodation, meals for four days, entry fee at sites and well-trained English and Hindi speaking Tour guides. The trip ends on the fifth day at Mumbai.
Tour fare can be booked through online banking. This is first of its kind on Indian Railways. Payment for the tour can be made by Internet Online Money Transfer or by cheque or Demand Draft or Pay Order. Depositing cash at a nominated current account of ICICI Bank is also another mode of payment.
Coastal tour is something that one looks forward to. A relaxing time in the company of splashing waves of the sea, beautiful golden sand of the beaches beckoning one and all, the shades of coconut trees and famous places of worship. Surrounded by the Karavali coast on one side, the Deccan plateau on the other and Sahyadri ranges on the third side, Uttara Kannada and Udupi districts are of immense natural beauty and eco-tourist paradise.
The tour takes one to the famous Gokama Temple and beach, the highest Jog Falls, gigantic rock formations of Yana, tallest Shiva statue of Murudeswar, Marvanthe beach, Udupi, beautiful Om beach etc. Eighty kms. North of Udupi, the Moogambika Temple located at foothills of the Kodachadri hills, is one of the most important centres of Shakti worship in South India. Sri Adi Shankaracharya is said to have consecrated the deity – Moogambika, slayer of demon Mookasura, on a Sri Chakra, which is installed in a copper roofed, gold crested temple that is said to be 1000 years old.
Details of the tour can be had from < a href="http://www.konkanrailway.com">www.konkanrailway.com
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