Goa, India Travel Blogs

India here we are!
Feb 6, 2007 (25 photos)

...  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 eye ...

GOA
Feb 25, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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 who ...

Bedbugs and saints
Dec 20, 2004 (12 photos)

... 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 who ...

In the country of kings
Sep 30, 2004 (13 photos)

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. ...

Lobsters and white pointers
Feb 15, 2006 (23 photos)

... 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 bikini ...

Beach bums
Dec 29, 2007 (13 photos)

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!
Jan 1, 2008 (18 photos)

... . 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 ...

Colva for Christmas!
Dec 26, 2004 (5 photos)

Will write later..

Christmas in Goa
Dec 28, 2003 (3 photos)

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 place ...

Bye bye Bombay, Bombay bye bye....
Sep 18, 2007 (35 photos)

After 13 and a half long hours' traveling on a night bus we have arrived in Goa. Feeling like battery-caged hens in a coach smelling of B.O. and cheesey feet, we top-tailed in a glorified baggage compartment! Before we got on the coach we met James ( ...

Elephants, Saris and Perverts
Nov 29, 2004 (3 photos)

... 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 but it ...

Moo-ving, Just Keep Moo-ving!
Sep 28, 2007 (33 photos)

... 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 ...

Chillin' in South Goa
Dec 4, 2004 (4 photos)

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 ...

Tsunami Disaster
Dec 30, 2004

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 seas ...

What 's next?
Jan 4, 2008

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 way. ...

Merry Christmas from Goa!
Dec 25, 2008 (22 photos)

... ... We could have stayed longer here, but we felt oursleves growing complacent and the lure of new horizons was getting irresistible. After Christmas, we decided to make the most out of the remaining 3 weeks we have in Southern India and leave paradise.

Goa Extensions, Enfields and Freak Storms. .
Mar 8, 2006 (3 photos)

... stretches to a week, the next thing you know, you have signed on for another week and have extended your whole india experience. Motorcycles, what with it being the end of the season here in Arumbol are going cheaper and cheaper. There are numerous ...

Goa - Anjuna - Day 9
Mar 3, 2008 (6 photos)

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 ...

The Good, The Bad and The Mumbai Madness
Sep 24, 2004 (7 photos)

... ! Instead we've all been recuperating by eating amazing food, playing cards and having plenty of 'Belo time' Tomorrow we are leaving south Goa and heading to the north where the capital is and where all the partying's at! So goodbye for now!

waxing philosophical. .
Mar 6, 2006 (4 photos)

... , and though I miss my own kitty, at least I have a little buddy to play with. India is a place of acceptance. Even the animals accept what is. CatsandDogsandPigsandCowsandElephantsandBirdsandFishandElephantsandPeople all live together in the same ...

My first gig in India, a rave, and sweet goodbyes.
Mar 6, 2006 (4 photos)

... outside tables with Heath, an energetic American fellow from Colorado with a fondness for the huge fireworks they seem to sell everywhere in India, and of which he would blast off at least five every night. . I told him about the "list of forbidden songs ...

Dead and rotting things on the beach.
Apr 3, 2006 (3 photos)

... and the Indian natives are wonderful, it is the Europeans I can do without. I have learned much about Europe here, but I came to see India, and as the hangers-on get more and more catty, I feel truly in my heart that it is time to move on. Cliques and ...

India - Three Weeks In
Jun 2, 2003 (17 photos)

... /05 - Our driver for the next 10 days (Mukesh) arrives at 9.30am for a days sightseeing around Delhi. Visit Jami Masjid (India's largest Muslim mosque), then the outside of the Red Fort (closed due to a terrorist attack last year). Stop at a bakery opting ...

Sheets and thongs....
Jan 19, 2006 (6 photos)

... done in ages, but when you've been doing a lot of R&R's there's not much else that you can report! Soon enough though we'll be back into the swing of things and will be travelling once again in the real India - it's nice to have a bit of a break though.

strange meetings on the Goan coast
Dec 20, 2004 (4 photos)

You have probably read of our friends Kris and Lauren from Dumfries and Isle of Man.

Goa - Arambol - 4 nights
Feb 28, 2008 (6 photos)

Day 5 - 27/02/08 I've now arrived in Goa, which is a complete contrast to Mumbai in so many ways. I flew to Goa which only took 1 hour rather than taking a sweaty 12 hour train journey. When I landed, I managed to share a taxi with a Russian couple, ...

Mapusa. . .
Mar 30, 2006 (5 photos)

... I must get good and ready to move on not that all my legalities are taken care of. . Things take time here in India, there was a man, a friend of my usual internet provider, who had a cousin who had a brother whose wife works for the Oriental Insurance ...

Out of the city and onto the beach
Mar 7, 2006 (4 photos)

... or/and ignoring the numerous touts and hawkers that sit along there. We walked along to the huge arch, Mumbais logo The Gateway of India. We wandered around this huge arch for a while, the detail was beautiful, then went into the very clean and very green ...

The spice plantation and Fenney
Mar 2, 2006 (5 photos)

... us to a temple of Vishnu, which we were given a barefoot tour of (remove your shoes when entering any building in india, especially a temple). We saw a solid silver carrying chair used for festivals and holy days, and the interior is ornate, with silver ...

The Interrogation
Mar 28, 2008 (6 photos)

· On the Goa Express to, em, Goa, India · GMT +5:30hrs The Interrogation We seem to be spending a lot of time on Indian trains lately. We´ ...