WHAT A STORY!

Sometimes, to become the main character requires jumping into a car and driving straight to the enticing heart of a kahani.

- Ambika Muttoo

The next time you're getting off a plane in Goa, drive through the state for another four hours, approximately, till you get to Gokarna in Karnataka.

The landscape ricochets between villages, paddy fields, winding roads and snatches of wide coastline. If you're not prone to staring out of windows, it's the ideal amount of time to catch a solid nap to wake up just in time for... paradise. Kahani Paradise, that is. Or what we'd like to call Gokarna's best-kept secret.