Sunrise drive at Udupi (6.00 am) On some days, we need to start driving even before the sun rises. That's because we want to see sunrise from a particular place. We were at the east side of the backwater. Only if we crossed over to the strip of land and looked east, could we see the sunrise over the backwater (see map below if all this sounds like Bertie Wooster's conversation before his first cup of tea). Yesterday we had crossed by boat. Today we decided to take a long drive through the dark bylanes of Udupi, and over a bridge, which was pretty nice. And so was the sunrise. Breakfast and drive out (8.00 am) We would be doing around 200 km today, so we wanted to get going. The hotel had promised free breakfast, so we came back after our sunrise drive for some neer dosa (no kitchen in the hotel, so they swiggied it in - can you imagine the dedication?). We moved out around 8.30 am, onto NH66, which goes str...
A month long travel through the southern states of India.