We left Hampi on an overnight sleeper bus to the coastal town of Gokarna, Karnataka. At around 2am the bus stopped and everyone who wasn't continuing through Karnataka to Goa was told to get off. We were then told another bus was going to pick us all up and drive us to Gokarna. We waited for about an hour in the dark next to a lamppost on the highway until the next bus showed up and then dumped us at the Gokarna turn-off to the beach, which was still about 4 kilometers away. So we found ourselves dragging our bags down a steep cliff trail to the beach at 4:30am with a cell phone flashlight. When we got down to the beach all the guesthouses were of course, shut up for the night, so we snuck inside the gated patio restaurant of the nearest guesthouse and laid down like miserable hobos with our stuff on the floor until around 8am when we were finally able to check into a room.
We had planned to stay for 3 nights at the beach in Gokarna but ended up staying for 6 because we needed to do...nothing. It was the best vacation from a vacation I've ever had.
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