Day trips · 30 km south
Murudeshwar, 30 km south of Honavar, is a seaside temple town with a giant 37 m Shiva statue, a towering gopura and scuba trips to Netrani Island.
Murudeshwar sits on a small headland jutting into the Arabian Sea. A giant Shiva statue (about 37 m) looks out to sea and the temple's 20-storey gopura has a lift to the top for an extraordinary view of the coast.
From November to May, dive boats leave Murudeshwar for Netrani Island, the best scuba site on India's west coast.
Photos: Hegde Neha (CC BY-SA 4.0), Starstuffseyyon (CC BY-SA 4.0), Outlander07 (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
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