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Goa Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Goa, India
India here we are!
This is a top pick! ... !?!?!? Scum class on the train! So Goa it was and this is where all our travel plans for India went totally out the window...... We arrived in Goa ago with the intention of staying a week to ten days. But just like a blink of an ...
South Goa
This is a top pick! ... our blanket. The sun was hot but there was also a perfect breeze drifting across the water. Jason's first beer in India was a big Kingfisher just before sunset on Patnem Beach. We enjoyed a candlelight dinner at a table on the sand. ...
Bedbugs and saints
This is a top pick! ... vibe about it. Some of the streets resembled Lisbon or Havana more than the views we were accustomed to in India. We also made the trip to Old Goa where we saw the somewhat dessicated body of St. Francis Xavier, who died over 300 years ago and ...
GOA
This is a top pick! ... at the train station at least an hour before (as is advised) bought goodies for journey and waited for The Goa Express!! India's version of express and mine are obviously two completely different meanings. We got talking to Rob a traveler from England ...
Beach bums
This is a top pick! Leaving Hampi and heading to the beaches of Goa. Let's get this party started! The first couple of hours we rode standing by the doors of the passenger carriage, eating peanuts and throwing the shells on the floor as the locals did. Then we transferred to ...
Fights and Fireworks. Classic New Years Eve!
This is a top pick! ... . I recon he'll be buying a house here:) I have a flight to Singapore on Jan 10th. I've had it with the sightseeing in India. There is a lot more to see of course, but I'm exhausted. I've seen a lot. I've had all the spicy food I can take. I've ...
Lobsters and white pointers
This is a top pick! ... I'm not into getting the white pointers out in public. Fine if you want to but I don't think it's acceptable in a country like India where their culture requires women to remain covered. I know, you might think I 've got double standards as I wore my ...
North Goa
This is a top pick! ... There were proper highways and orderly traffic. Surprisingly, we witnessed one of the few accidents we’d seen in India there. We crossed several long bridges over wide waterways, some with mangrove forests sheltering their swollen banks. ...
India? Or Portugal?
This is a top pick! ... hours behind in our travel time, but the scenery made up for it. As we passed from Maharashtra state into Goa, the landscape became increasingly greener, despite the dry weather, and high rises were replaced with brightly coloured adobe ...
Christmas in Goa
This is a top pick! We're now at the end of 10 lovely days by the sea in Goa! Spending Christmas in Goa is a real cliche of travel in India, but it had to be done! It was strange arriving here at first - after the towns we'd visited in Southern India, this was the first ...
Beaches, Burning Rubber and Burning it in!!
This is a top pick! ... feeling the best. I say almost veggie because there was a spider in the bowl with the Garlic Nan (Our first nan bread in India). Erica's Cheese Butter Masala was good thought!. Got back and drank a few beers on the Veranda, sweating like you have never ...
Lookey, lookey, lookey..............
This is a top pick! We went for an early morning stroll down the beach before heading for the travel agents who said they may be able to get us on a train if we pay them extra money for an even more restrictive secret travel agent risk. We have no option really and its ...
Another bizarre day on a Goan Beach
This is a top pick! ... front of our table, casually gathered up his parachute, sat down at the next table and ordered a large beer, if we weren't in India I might have looked twice. Heading back to our hut on the bike we decided to eat at the 'Seahorse' again ...
Bye bye Bombay, Bombay bye bye....
This is a top pick! ... seen him so cross as he told the man, amidst all the swearing, that he should wear a mask and hold a gun!! Anyhow we are in Goa now - the rain is displeasing us although we've managed to book into a great hotel with a pool for only 6 quid a night for ...
Kadama 41: Spices and Elephants
This is a top pick! ... shoes off and hopped aboard. What an amazing moment in my life. I have never ridden an elephant and it was obviously one of my India goals. The best feeling was the way her body moved with each step. She was so calm and graceful I almost forgot that I ...
Elephants, Saris and Perverts
This is a top pick! ... The market symbolises the impact package tourism has had on north Goa. The market was full of stalls selling overpriced tatty 'I Love Goa' T shirts, along with badly made jewellery, fake designer gear, very dodgy fags (it might say Marlboro on the pack ...
Bollywood Dreams & Goa Coconut Huts
This is a top pick! ... businesses that recycle just about every kind of material you can imagine. After Mumbai, the plan was to venture into central India and participate in a 10 day silent meditation course. Well, apparently the program is quite good at this because ...
Moo-ving, Just Keep Moo-ving!
This is a top pick! ... worried by my simplified sentences and 'East is East' accent!! Earlier this week saw the Twenty20 cricket World Cup final with India v Pakistan so we made a trip to the bar for that and Charlie's newfound cricket knowledge came in handy as we celebrated ...
Kadama 40: Backpacker's Paradise
This is a top pick! ... is rather funny because she did not get hurt. But honestly, who can say that they drove their scooter into a rice paddy in India? Shannon can. I loved riding the scooters! Growing up riding on the back of my dads motorcycle prepared me for how to drive ...
Chillin' in South Goa
This is a top pick! Well, here we are soaking up the sun in the former Portuguese enclave. Goa has totally different character to the rest of India, with whitewashed houses, lush palm groves and paddy fields. It is a great escape from the madness of the city and the long ...
A Tenner for a Henna?
This is a top pick! Our last full day in the peaceful palolem, we will be so sad to leave this place, the beach and our sunbeds (we haven't quite acheived the base tan Andrew has been so intently working on) and get those heavy backpacks on ...
Tsunami Disaster
This is a top pick! Hazel and I would like to thank all of you for your e-mails of concern. We both have been very lucky, as Officials said the estimated toll from the disaster now surpassed 80,000 dead. We have returned to Paoleum in South Gos where there has been high ...
What 's next?
This is a top pick! What's next? Off to Singapore for my birthday and then New Zealand for a month, followed by two months in Australia. It's been 3 months since I left. I feel like I'm closing a chapter. It hasn't been a vacation in the "Kick back and relax" sort of ...
Go-Ahhhhhhh
This is a top pick! ... accidentally stumbled into the restaurant known to have the best chef in the state of Goa on my first night here. Well the point of coming back to India a second time is to see the south. Next stop, more south than here I guess... ...
Ganesh goes surfing
This is a top pick! ... "Ahh Clifton BS8? Redland BS6, St George, Bedminster, Knowle, I have friends in all these places" I was speechless, thinking, I'm in India listening to a homeless man recite the areas and postcodes of Bristol, a city, thanks to our lack of premiership ...
Beaches, booze and meat - woo hoo!
This is a top pick! OK so we felt that we cheated India by coming to Goa - but we are having so much fun! The 40hr journey was hell, slow trains, very hot sweaty carriages but very friendly people offering us everything from food to chewing tobacco to meths (dont ...
In the country of kings
This is a top pick! A... We've made it to those famous Goan beaches at last, after a pretty hectic couple of weeks charging round the Maharajas forts and palaces of Rajasthan. The season here doesn't start until October, which means it's all pretty quiet at the moment. ...
Goa - Anjuna - Day 9
This is a top pick! Arrived in Anjuna early this morning from Arambol. Managed to get a room really quickly in another cheap guest house called Manaili's which was really lucky as it was the last room avaliable. I came to Anjuna with my Italian friend so we shared this last ...
Kadama 38: Sun, Sand, and Starfish
This is a top pick! ... grumbling, so we walked around the city of Panaji to get a taste of the culture. It really did not feel like we were in India. The streets were clean, the sidewalks were in tact, and there were a lot of really nice houses. If I had ever been to ...