With over 800 shipwrecks along Goa’s coastline waiting to be discovered. There’s one that you can explore and take pics with. The ‘SS Mary’ among some corals and reefs around Grande Island and Bat Island make for interesting dives for both first timers, students and fun divers. Treat yourself to a Goa thats Beyond Beaches and experience what this tiny blessed state filled with amazing biodiversity has to offer. While the islands have the iconic coco trees, one is not allowed on them.

This temple town in Karnataka, not only attracts a gazillion Shiva devotees a year but has throngs of ocean loving and sea goddess worshipping folk that travel far and wide to duck under at this literal heart shaped island of Netrani, You can expect to glide through walls of fish, grin at the flamboyant and mesmerising display of courtship between cuttlefish, spot an octopus or turtle even. The boat ride here can take hour and half one way and is sometimes accompanied by dolphins. Dive days here can be long and tiring but it’s absolutely worth every wave and possible queasy feeling along…

Popular amongst the students at Manipal and Udupi to locals from Mangalore this quaint little lighthouse beach village is every bit of slow travel and laid back tropical vibe with chilled Toddy and Fried fish to quench that summer and not so summer thirst. Mingle with the locals outside tiny taverns and grab some scrumptious meals amidst wide smiles and cycle bells. Not many know that this Gorgeous Lighthouse beach of Kapu can also have you scuba diving and exploring rocks and wrecks in the blue beyond…