Kovalam. And Beyond.
Twelve claustrophobic hours in that glass box called the Volvo be better worth it. Trivandrum isn't near from Bangalore, not on the week before Onam anyway. My manager recently told me that the reason the sands at Kovalam were black and sticky was due to an oil spill that occurred in the region some years back. Well, that and the other fact being that Kovalam in the evening does look like Bangalore’s Brigade road with attached beach, doesn’t exactly endear itself to me – considering that I had Gokarna to compare it with. Then again, where it scores is the lighthouse (an edifice that’s better seen from far than visited and endured), and the sheer power of the waves that just mesmerizes in the early hours of the day. It does pay to wake up early in these parts, just to witness the sheer majesty of the 20 foot high waves crashing on the rocks jutting out from the sand bars. Kovalam is 30 kms from Trivandrum, easily accessed by town bus or autorickshaw from the city. Once y