Mangalore: Europeans, Americans Find City's Veg Market 'Amazing'

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje 
 
Mangalore, Apr 26: The city is proving to be magnetic, attracting tourists and travellers in groups towards it, this time of the year. On Friday April 25 at 7 am, a cruise liner called 'Nautica' owned by Oceania Cruises (SM) called on at the New Mangalore Port. On board were around 660 passengers, an assorted mix belonging to different nationalities mostly America and Europe.  

Their important point of destination among the must-see places in the city, was a visit to the main vegetable market. After which many of them paid a visit to a typical Mangalorean’s house on Sturrock road. Both the market place and the house captured their imagination and they described the experience as 'amazing.' 

The tourists seemed to be deeply impressed by the large traditional structures located in the city, with the Mangalore tile ceiling and modern facilities.

Eulalia D’Souza of Lia travels and tours was the tour operator for them here, who took a 300-member group around the city. Many of them had several questions and wanted to know about the daily life of Mangaloreans. They even went to a local vegetable market and textile shops in the vicinity.

Moreover, they visited a cashew factory at Baikampady and Jain temples in Karkala and Moodbidri and Gokarnatheshwara temple in Kudroli. However, there were some dissenting voices too, with some of them ruing about the bad state of the roads as being “bumpy”, being too narrow, and traffic congesting the roads.

Finally the tired and travel weary tourists sailed back to their destinations at 6 pm on the same day.