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Places to visit near Goa
Gokarna
A Karnataka temple town that doubles as a quieter Goa: pilgrims fill the ancient Mahabaleshwar shrine while a cliff path links half-moon beaches named Om and Paradise. Empty sands, sunset walks and a slower coast: Goa without the crowds.
~120 km as the crow flies
Murudeshwar
On a spit of the Karnataka coast stands one of the world's tallest Shiva statues, gazing out to sea from Kanduka hill. The draw is the jaw-dropping view, and a selfie beside the giant Shiva.
~170 km as the crow flies
Udupi
A small coastal town with an outsized culinary shadow: the Udupi restaurants found all over India take their name and their vegetarian repertoire from here. At its centre is the 13th-century Krishna Matha, where the deity is seen through a silver-plated window and eight monasteries take turns running the temple.
~260 km as the crow flies
Hampi
The ghost capital of the Vijayanagara empire, strewn across a boulder moonscape on the Tungabhadra: temples, bazaars and a famous stone chariot left mid-sentence five centuries ago. One of India's most spectacular ruins, with boulder-top sunsets over the whole vanished city.
~280 km as the crow flies
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