Udupi/Udipi

-"Vasco da Gama has set his foot first here." -"Wait. What?" -"Yeah." To escape the bleak January evenings of Pune, we made a quick weekend gateway plan to Udupi/Udipi, a beach town in Karnataka. Udupi is 60 kilometers away from Mangalore and is 700 kilometers from Pune. The beauty of the journey was some part …