Mangalore (Karnataka), India - December 12th, 2006

I travelled to Mangalore, 4 hrs. south of Goa. It is a center for coffee and cashew nuts export. In this city, the streets that aren't asphalted have very red soil. That is why the place is famous for terracota roof tiles production.
In the northern part of this state of Karnataka there are impressive relics of India's Islamic past, and enormous Jain scultures are found on the southern part. There are a lot of elephants in the mountains of Kodagu Region, in the very southwestern part of the state.