Benaulim, Goa, India Travel Blogs

Relaxing on the beach
Apr 5, 2005 (2 photos)

Goa After sweating it out in Hampi we headed to the coast for some relaxation by the beach. Goa is one of India's smallest states, controlled by the Portuguese for a long period, with a sweaping coastline and a variety of beachside locations to choose ...

Moving up to Mumbai
Feb 28, 2003

Days 31 - 32 - Benaulim They say you'll experience some truly awful journeys while travelling and I've heard some stories that make me gag! Normally they involve bus travel (but undeterred, as I write, I'm sat on a 'luxury' sleeper coach on the 14hr ...

Last days in Goa
Feb 28, 2003

Days 29 - 30 - Benaulim For the first time since we left I'm pissing clear! I'd like to say it's because I'm realising the significant importance of rehydration but in reality it's because I've had copious amounts of Belo (Goan beer) to drink. We've had ...

Goa - India
Feb 28, 2003

Day 28 - Benaulim Goa gets a rough press in the likes of the Lonely Planet and the Rough Guide for being touristy etc. While I have to admit that today I saw my first pair of Union Jack swimming shorts (obviously accompanied by the mandatory milky-white ...

What a way to Goa
Feb 11, 2009

... dared try one yet! Boy did they have some staff - the second biggest employer in the world 1.6 million staff to handle 16 million passengers a day. Finally we crawled into Goa's main station - our first 765 Km under our belt , we were up and running.

Goan Goan Gone
Feb 12, 2009 (5 photos)

... don't step out in front of you. We went further south away from the development - we had heard that the central Goa coastline was packed with hotels and although there were still fishing communities where we were, hotels were being thrown up double quick. ...

The attack of the killer crows
Mar 24, 2004 (5 photos)

... close enough to a Tiger that one giant leap and he'd have been eating breakfast earlier than intended. At our accomodation in Benaulim we're (alledgedly) three hundred yards from a python infested paddyfield. We've gotten on and off camels that are more ...

romance : Benaulim, the craddle of our love ...
Jan 10, 2007 (19 photos)

Yep ! that is where it all happened 8 years ago... a paradise then, a paradise now. A few shots, so you can picture what it was / is like.

Almost home
Dec 5, 2006

35 degrees two weeks before Christmas is strange but we are coping! Next stop Delhi, but not until the 19th, for a few more sights before heading back on 22nd. Hope you all are enjoying the Christmas parties...see you soon!!  

Benaulim Part II
Dec 24, 2007 (4 photos)

... ve also promised to send him cards from our other destinations - apparently if you address a card to "Shiva the Postcard Seller, Colva, Goa, India" it will get to him.  We parted with much hand-shaking  and him conferring on me the name Andy Cap. ...

Christmas Day in Benaulim
Dec 25, 2007 (5 photos)

... walk back...! Back at the guest-house, we had a great natter on the balcony about our time here.  It was a summing up of India really as we both came to terms with the fact that we were to leave shortly.  It's been a fantastic time so far; ...

Going from Goa with Go Air
Oct 10, 2007

... to have taught me that you can take the girl out of Glasgow......At this point in time leaving the sun drenched beaches of Benaulim for the drenched streets of Dharamsala makes perfect sense. In my favour if I continue to carry a brolly, wear too many ...

Happy Christmas, this is the beach calling.
Dec 23, 2004 (18 photos)

We hope you are all having a wonderful run-up to Christmas, we've finally arrived in India and have hit the beach in Goa. It's everything we hoped for- white sand, clear blue skies all day long and dirt cheap. We've found ourselves a place just 5 ...

Gone to Goa
Feb 21, 2005 (12 photos)

... . (3 hours just to get out of Mumbai traffic) Definitely worth the trip. (see ecstatic photos) We are now staying in Benaulim, in a small, near-the-beach hotel. The weather is beautifully warm, the water inviting, and the people very friendly to the ...

Stepping Back In Time With the Fishermen
Feb 16, 2009 (20 photos)

... . I might have gone along with Salazar. The Blue Corner consists of a restaurant and nine thatched cabinas on Benaulim Beach in south Goa. I asked Sanjay, our maitre'd/waiter, why it's called Blue Corner. He looked proudly towards the Arabian Sea, then ...

Surf's Up (Bit choppy during the Monsoon...)
Oct 1, 2006 (11 photos)

... Service 'til Eternity"! Twenty-seven hours later we waddled off the train at Margao and caught a taxi to the little village of Benaulim a few minutes down the coast. We'd decided to head to Goa even though it is very much the (monsoonal) off-season to ...

Dont You go to Goa (Alabama 3)
Oct 20, 2009 (7 photos)

... and then packed up all our gear and left by rickshaw for the train station. It was a lovely chilled out stay here in Benaulim in Goa and we toughly enjoyed our stay. Goa has other beach areas with more party scenes and hippies but we were happy to have ...

Feeling very hampi
Feb 15, 2006 (9 photos)

... I was well down the road to recovery from my tummy bug, we decided to head down to the south beaches of Goa to a place called Benaulim: a peaceful, rural village with a beautiful white-sanded, clean beach. On our arrival in Benaulim, Orla and Anna were ...

The Goa Tour - Benaulim
Nov 12, 2009 (11 photos)

A fourteen hour train ride up the west coast to Goa, the penultimate state i'll visit in India. I had a few days in Benaulim before a short detour to Hampi to meet my friends, Nick and Kirsty.  They've also ...

Pair o' dice
Dec 11, 2006 (4 photos)

... ; Somehow you just get used to doing nothing in style and the time passes.  We're staying in Anthy's guesthouse on Benaulim beach in Goa.  We did try to save money by staying somewhere cheap and cheerful on the first night but it turned out to be ...

Image and signs and Benaulim and Panaji and stuff
May 24, 2007

... if you do happen to be reading this blog, then get in touch and I'll bring some back for you when I return in September! Benaulim is a small town half way along Colva Beach which, at 25 kms in length, is probably the longest beach that I've ever lounged ...

Benaulim Like Beckham
Feb 12, 2009 (8 photos)

... they seemed to know what they were doing. Certainly more than I did anyway, and they invited me to join them on their trip to Benaulim which they assured me was superb. As you can guess, I jumped at the offer.   These chaps are called Mark, Joe and ...

On to Goa
May 13, 2006

... at the Reserve Ticket Office - but there was simply no available berths on the train - it was summer holidays in India and the trains heading south from Mumbai were packed with domestic tourists or folk visiting families back home. My only hope was to ...

Benaulim, Goa
Dec 23, 2007 (5 photos)

... the 4 days we were there), had waxed lyrical on the undiscovered delights and shere and blissful lack of shopping opportunities of Benaulim.  My heart had sank slightly but in the spirit of "keeping it real" i had nodded in agreement and we ...

Goin to Goa....
Oct 30, 2008

... of Goa we intended to go to, but keen to avoid the mass holiay destination places, we settled on the fairly small town of Benaulim in South Goa.  North Goa - the original haunt of the hippies when they first came to Goa - is primarily taken over by ...

Goa open your legs im on my way
Mar 2, 2006 (1 photos)

... . SO I pick the least Hoiking one, because I detest being spat on mid motorcycle ride. So we depart for the fee of just under 8 bucks to Benaulim beach. SO we are riding thru the nite, the air is clean, and were in the jungle as far aS i CAN SEE. Hmmm Im ...

Going Goa - In English
Sep 24, 2007 (5 photos)

... muslim cafetaria where we wash down prawn masala with orange fanta. Sunday, September 23rd In the morning we take a rickshaw to Benaulim Beach and check out Castello's Tourist Nest. I had spoken to Mr Castello from Bombay and negotiated the rate of ...

Goa
Nov 6, 2008

... In many ways it looks like a stereotypical tropical paradise, not at all what you think of when you think of India. This isn't just in my head, Goa is surrounded by mountains and so was largely cut off from the developing culture in the rest of South India ...

To the North via south Goa
Mar 27, 2009 (9 photos)

... of Goa that we had not yet explored before heading North to Rajhastan and saying good bye to the beaches. We arrived in Benaulim early (6am), and were greeted by a beuatiful empty beach except for the odd game og cricket and a nice temperature. After ...

Goa
Jan 1, 2007

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