Uttara Kannada District
A coastal and forest district with beaches like Gokarna and Western Ghats waterfalls.
Gokarna Mahabaleshwar Temple
Uttara Kannada
A Shaiva pilgrimage temple on the Karavali coast, believed to house the Atmalinga described in the Ramayana — the spiritual anchor of a town whose crescent beaches later made it one of India's best-known backpacker destinations.
Stamp at: Gokarna Post Office
Karwar Rabindranath Tagore Beach
Uttara Kannada
A crescent Arabian Sea beach at the mouth of the Kali river, renamed for Rabindranath Tagore, who visited Karwar as a young man and later drew on its coastal scenery in his writing.
Stamp at: Karwar Post Office
Murudeshwar Shiva Statue
Uttara Kannada
One of the world's tallest Shiva statues, standing over 37 metres on Kanduka Hill above the Arabian Sea, built in the early 2000s beside an older Murudeshwara temple linked in legend to the Ramayana's Atmalinga story.
Stamp at: Murudeshwar Post Office
Yana Caves Black Limestone Formations
Uttara Kannada
Two towering, jet-black karst spires — Bhairaveshwara and Mohini Shikhara — rising abruptly from Western Ghats rainforest, a rare crystalline-limestone formation that has drawn pilgrims and geologists alike for centuries.
Stamp at: Kodambale Branch Post Office