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Panaji Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Panaji, India
India? Or Portugal?
This is a top pick! ... . The roaming chickens and cows certainly seemed to fit in better here than on the sidewalks of Mumbai. Arriving in Panjim (or Panaji), the capital of the state, it was difficult to get an impression of the place from the bus station. But ...
Kadama 39: Is this India?
This is a top pick! ... fellow students spent their Goa time. They wanted a relaxing, beach vacation while Shannon and I sought adventure. Driving from Panaji to Anjuna, we passed through Old Goa which houses magnificent cathedrals, churches, and monasteries. The first place ...
Sausage Heaven
This is a top pick! ... a lovely clean bathroom to ourselves felt especially luxurious after the shared bathroom 20m from our co-co hut last night. Panaji is a beautiful old town, remarkably clean with gorgeous old Portuguese buildings. We had a spectacular meal which included ...
Pan jimjams
This is a top pick! The following day we decided to head north to Panjim, the capital of Goa, its very Portuguese. When the British Raj gave India back to the Indians in 1947, the Portuguese decided to keep Goa. So, according to a man we met on the train the Indians flew a ...
A rest in Goa
This is a top pick! Panaji, Goa, India - After a fancy night sleep in AC tier 3, I find myself being woken up by a conductor a few minutes before the train departs from Goa. Luckily I got off!! I am quite a distance from my final destination of Panaji, the state of Goa is ...
Recovery
This is a top pick! ... ! Tina also bought a beautiful blue salway kameez there, that I can't wait to see her in. Old Goa, only 11km from Panaji, is basically a bundle of churches in the jungles. But they are enormous, old Portugese churches. The Church of Bom Jesus holds ...
Give me some of that Portuguese sausage please..
This is a top pick! ... (a real problem here in India). So, another splurge was in the air and we decided to stay at the nice Panjim Inn. Panjim (aka Panaji) is the most laid back and "western" town we have seen thus far and therefore really relaxing...and on top there is some ...
Churches galore
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I loves me a casino...
This is a top pick! ... than other parts of India and there seems to be more middle-class as a percentage of the overall population in the state. Panaji itself is the capital of the state of Goa and, although it does have a couple of tourist attractions - like the ...
Pinch and a Punch!
This is a top pick! ... Goa, the place seems cleaner and has some nice shops not a good as the book made out but still in the top 3 cities in India! had a long walk around and found the huge book shop that we where trying to find with the aid of some delightful nicompoop who is ...
Bom dia mae, esta boa??
This is a top pick! Day 54 ; Sweated profusely. Drank a bottle of water, sweated a bottle of water out, drank a bottle of water....and on it went, something to be said for being near the coast..cos the city was effin hot and not a nice hot either! not raining though, ...
Old Goa
We took a local bus from Manderm to Panaji which cost less than a dollar - what a bargain. Again the place we wanted to stay was full and ended up in Bharat Lodge which was clean but a bit over priced for a non ac room. We wandered round the town had a ...
Gastronmic Goa
... chicken cafreal (chicken with lots of coriander). Naturally Mum's Kitchen did both brilliantly. Away from the food - we stayed in Panaji the capital of Goa a quiet pleasant town, time spent on slow walks around the old colonial quarter. Goa seems quieter ...
Panaji
... spaces and near empty streets, devoid of garbage and masses of people. I thought the illusion would shatter when we reached Goa's capital, Panaji but it remained eerily quiet and clean - totally un-Indian. We sat in the park in the centre of town which ...
Picturesque Panjim
... beautiful scenery on the way down, with India in all its post-monsoon glory. Took a prepaid taxi to Panjim (or Panaji), the capital of Goa. Although a capital city, Panjim is a completely relaxed little place. The Porteguese influence (they ruled ...
Panjim and Old Goa
... much time in Old Goa, it was very hot, and to be honest, we both concluded that it was impressive merely because it was in India, had this really been the Med, or Portugal, it would have been any other town. Back in Panjim we had a good room which I ...
Portugese Panaji
... with them bent over it poring at the manual, it didn't look like much was going to happen quickly! We got a cab into Panaji City, once a Portugese town, with the influence still very much in evidence. The town had a very mediterranean feel to it, in ...
Goa in Sixty Seconds
Hello again! Now from sunny Goa. And I'll tell you for why. I decided yesterday that for all Mumbai offers it's a little like London. Very loud and busy and exciting but I fancied some sea and sun. So I jumped on the 6.55am to Goa. I say "jumped ...
Portugal in India
... the way there right now. Deciding to rest up for the afternoon I got myself a cab and was soon enroute to Panjim (aka Panaji), Goa's state capital. Immediately obvious was the difference between Goa and the North of India. The roads were quiet (even the ...
Panjim
... our guidebook described as clean. It was a landfill, with trash and stray dogs everywhere (and, it being India, cows). Apparently, during the monsoon there are no tourists, and therefore no incentive to make the beach ...
Apr 14, 2010
Mumbai (Bombay), das goldene Goa und Haessliches
Tag. Auf meinem Weg nach Goa habe ich mir fuer einen Tag Bombay angetan. Die Stadt ist ein Konglomerat an Armut und Reichtum mit Wenig dazwischen. Bevor man mit dem Bus das Innere der 16.4 Mio Einwohnerstadt erreicht, passiert man fuer mehr als eine ...
Old Goa
... ? I couldn't find anyone to answer that one. He looked pretty toasted from the photographs, not one for the mantelpiece. On returning to Panaji, changing into a pair of jeans, I took a late afternoon stroll. Most of the shops were closed with it being the ...
Leaving Goa...running down the tracks
... are a hive of activity, vibrantly decorated with deities and causing a commotion at every stop. Once in Panaji the Portuguese colonial relics and influence were obvious, the older people still speak Portuguese, colourful buildings with ...
Panaji (Panjim)
... along the waterfront and the town felt comparatively prosperous. Goa is the wealthiest state per capita in India so it follows that Panaji would have a certain affluence. Of course there was also poverty struggling on every street. The ...
Proper hot weather
... look around before Stevie arrives. The snow has delayed him :-( I will have a look for some nice hotels along the coast for us. Panaji was boring. Steve's flight was delayed a couple of hours so I killed time then headed to the airport. He found a place ...
Arrived
Madness, about the only word that sums it up but then again i was expecting something along these lines. To start with Mumbai, hell on earth. Some joker wanted 14 english for a cab from one terminal to the other! bargain, considering i got it for the ...
Beach and Casino in Goa
... you know, a rafting, kayaking, sailing if possible, etc. So, in Panjim, Goa, I fulfilled my promise by escorting Kate aboard India's only Riverboat Casino, in fact, India's only casino....and as Kate put it, "it was the best night of my life." :) ...