Varkala: The Cliff at Sunset

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1. Your date and who is joining

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2. The practical arrangements

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The experience outline

The plan as the operator runs it. Start times and pickup are confirmed for your date.

1. Step 01

   The Evening

   Three hours timed for the end of the day, starting inland at the Janardanaswamy temple, which is around two thousand years old and is the reason the town exists; non-Hindus may visit the grounds rather than the sanctum. Down to Papanasam beach below it, where a mineral spring runs out of the cliff onto the sand and the name means destroyer of sins, which is why families come here to perform last rites at the water's edge. Then the north cliff path, which runs along the top of a red laterite bluff directly above the Arabian Sea with cafes and shops strung along the landward side. Varkala is the only place on the Kerala coast where cliffs meet the sea like this, and the sunset from the edge is what the whole town turns out for.

What this package lists

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