VANAMCOVE 🌴 Beaches & Coast weekends
Sea, sand and slow coastal mornings.
The weekend you'll talk about all week is closer than you think.
Alibaug
Kolaba Fort in the surf, long sandy beaches, seafood shacks and heritage bungalows — Alibaug is Mumbai's beach…
Andaman Islands
A coral archipelago in the Bay of Bengal: the Cellular Jail's history by night, Ross Island's ruined capital b…
Dahanu & Bordi
Chikoo orchards, quiet beaches and one of India's last Parsi villages — three hours north of Mumbai, past the …
Daman
A Portuguese outpost on the Gujarat coast: churches from the 1500s, a fort over the river mouth and quiet beac…
Dapoli
Dapoli sits high above the Konkan coast — cliffs, not beaches, with steps down to tiny coves. Murud, Harnai an…
Ganpatipule
A Swayambhu Ganpati temple on the sand, a long clean beach and the Konkan's gentlest resort town — six hours d…
Goa
The weekend flight Mumbai was built for: 50 minutes to a different country's worth of food and coast. Go with …
Gokarna
Om, Half Moon, Kudle — a string of beaches connected by cliff trails, with a temple town at one end. Gokarna i…
Harihareshwar & Shrivardhan
Two of the Konkan's gentlest beaches a few kilometres apart — Harihareshwar's temple town on one shore, Shriva…
Karwar
The unpretentious sibling of Goa — palm-fringed beaches, a historic port town and seafood eaten metres from wh…
Kovalam & Varkala
Two famous beaches an hour apart: Kovalam's crescent coves and Varkala's cliff-top promenade with the Arabian …
Lakshadweep
India's only coral atolls — 36 islands, turquoise lagoons, and a permit system that has kept them pristine. Th…
Malvan & Tarkarli
Sindhudurg's sea fort, snorkelling over coral, a river that runs crystal clear into the sea and the Konkan's s…
Mangalore & Udupi
Two coastal cities, one weekend: Mangalore's port-town energy and Udupi's temple-town calm, joined by 60 km of…
Murudeshwar
A dramatic temple town on the Konkan coast where a 123-foot Shiva statue keeps watch over the Arabian Sea, and…
Pondicherry
White-town lanes, Auroville's silence, and the long Coromandel coast — Pondicherry is Bangalore's favourite se…
Puri & Konark
Two wonders on one coast: Konark's 13th-century Sun Temple carved as a stone chariot, and Puri's Jagannath tem…
Ratnagiri
The Konkan coast's food capital — alphonso mangoes, kokum, fresh catch and beaches at Thibaw, Mandvi and Bhaty…
South Goa
The quiet half of Goa: Palolem's crescent, the cliff coves of Agonda, Portuguese-era churches and seafood cook…