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A
pleasant pilgrimage town on the way down the coast, Udipi (or
Udupi) is popular amongst Indian pilgrims for its Krishna Temple.
It's nice enough to just sit around the temple area or near
the temple pool and watch the world go by; waiting for some
elephants to trundle past, watching people busy buying flowers
for religious offering at the stalls lining the way up to the
temple, or sitting in one of the numerous dhabas gobbling down
one of the huge masala dosas - according to the Lonely Planet
guidebook, masala dosas were invented in Udipi.