VANAMCOVE 🌴 Tropical Coast weekends
Warm seas, palms and islands for the long weekends.
The weekend you'll talk about all week is closer than you think.
Agumbe
One of the wettest places in India — over 7,500 mm of rain a year — and the setting of the TV series Malgudi D…
Amboli
The wettest town in Maharashtra — 7,500 mm of monsoon rain a year — where the Sahyadri meets the Konkan and th…
Andaman Islands
A coral archipelago in the Bay of Bengal: the Cellular Jail's history by night, Ross Island's ruined capital b…
Dahanu & Bordi
Chikoo orchards, quiet beaches and one of India's last Parsi villages — three hours north of Mumbai, past the …
Ganpatipule
A Swayambhu Ganpati temple on the sand, a long clean beach and the Konkan's gentlest resort town — six hours d…
Gokarna
Om, Half Moon, Kudle — a string of beaches connected by cliff trails, with a temple town at one end. Gokarna i…
Harihareshwar & Shrivardhan
Two of the Konkan's gentlest beaches a few kilometres apart — Harihareshwar's temple town on one shore, Shriva…
Karwar
The unpretentious sibling of Goa — palm-fringed beaches, a historic port town and seafood eaten metres from wh…
Kerala Backwaters
A slow crawl through the palm-fringed waterways south of Kochi: houseboat, toddy shop, paddy fields that flood…
Kovalam & Varkala
Two famous beaches an hour apart: Kovalam's crescent coves and Varkala's cliff-top promenade with the Arabian …
Lakshadweep
India's only coral atolls — 36 islands, turquoise lagoons, and a permit system that has kept them pristine. Th…
Malvan & Tarkarli
Sindhudurg's sea fort, snorkelling over coral, a river that runs crystal clear into the sea and the Konkan's s…
Mangalore & Udupi
Two coastal cities, one weekend: Mangalore's port-town energy and Udupi's temple-town calm, joined by 60 km of…
Murudeshwar
A dramatic temple town on the Konkan coast where a 123-foot Shiva statue keeps watch over the Arabian Sea, and…
Pondicherry
White-town lanes, Auroville's silence, and the long Coromandel coast — Pondicherry is Bangalore's favourite se…
South Goa
The quiet half of Goa: Palolem's crescent, the cliff coves of Agonda, Portuguese-era churches and seafood cook…