Gokarna is a typical Indian town, it's not fancy in any way but the people are friendly and food and hotel were unbelievably cheap. We got the 7am bus to Kumta which then went up to Jog Falls. The Falls themselves were pretty impressive although not as much as the pictures the locals have of them before the dam was built upstream. Unfortunately the area around Jog Falls was depressingly bad, we had hoped to stay there and have a relaxed day but the places to stay were horrible and expensive so we found the next bus out of there was at 4:30 to Honavar back on the coast. To make matters worse it poured with rain. Once the rain had cleared we took some photos then met a couple of Swiss girls, Petra and Sebrina who are working in an orphanage out here south of Mangalore, so they were waiting for the same bus. Nightamre cut short, bus came at 5:30pm but was full, another bus came at 6pm, bus to Mangalore came at 11pm instead of 9:30pm and was the worst bus journey ever. The 'road' was a long line of pot holes with occasional tarmac.