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Goa Slideshow
Goa
Travel Blogs from Goa, India
Booze and drugs and rock and roll.
This is a top pick! ... Of the very limited knowledge of things I have, one of the strong ones is knowing my alcohol. So for those that may travel to goa, or to India, I will give you the Low Down, as it were. Of the beer, Fosters, Arlem, Haywards, Kingfisher, all of these are ...
Christmas in Goa
This is a top pick! ... down from Delhi, I had emailed my friend Simon, who I met in Nicaragua whilst traveling in 1997 and who was coincidentally traveling in India now with his wife Nicola. When I told him that I planned to go to Palolem, his reply was, "We're already there! ...
Goan, goan, goan, drink!
This is a top pick! ... We managed to avoid the temptation to buy a plastic Jesus on the Cross with flashing crown of thorns. Goa, home of the vindaloo supplies a large proportion of India's spices and we had a tour of a spice plantation to see where cloves, cardamon, ...
Anjuna no good
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Goa Goa Gone!
This is a top pick! ... up as we had only just finished our "all-you-can-eat" buffet (200r each!) We should say that Goa is VERY different from the rest of India. People were much more friendly, even those who weren't trying to get us to buy something. It's much cleaner ...
The beaches
This is a top pick! ... I imagine it would be like down there. Minus the hippies of course. A bit more expensive than other parts of India but still a good value overall. South of Baga, at Fort Aguada beach, nearer to Panaji, is the prison. It houses ...
Recovery
This is a top pick! ... of churches in the jungles. But they are enormous, old Portugese churches. The Church of Bom Jesus holds the sacred remains of St. Francis Xavier. If you need a place to regain your sanity in India, I fully recommend Goa and Palolem in ...
Chill out Hippy Style in Arambol
This is a top pick! ... and Beady Eye and umpteen other famous bands anyway so few drinks later we fnd out this guy Phil has been living here in India for 8 years and owns a bar/club and knows everyone it seems in Goa’s music scene he has been putting on beach parties for ...
Hospitalised
This is a top pick! ... a flat in London, Lucy booked some tickets for Sydney. On day five, I was allowed to check out, but was also told to rest in India for another ten days. Fuck that. Back in the hotel, even though I had had 8.5 lites of IV with multi-vitamins in me, I ...
Goa
This is a top pick! ... garden and the sea beyond. We soon were acquainted with our neighbours especially P.J from London who knew Goa very well having visited several times. She was in India for a month this time with a view to doing some voluntary work at a project helping ...
City Wins The FA Cup in Goa !!!
This is a top pick! ... taxis. I spotted some other lost looking packpackers and lo and behold they were going to same place as us so we shared a cab into Goa – dropped them off at their hotel and we decided we needed a beer before we started hunting for a room as it was ...
Moving up to Mumbai
This is a top pick! ... journey to Mumbai (formerly Bombay). We left it too late to get tickets for our preferred (and the recommended) mode of transport in India - the train. Put off by the expense of flying we looked at buses for the first time. Pictures were shown to us of ...
Give me some of that Portuguese sausage please..
This is a top pick! ... . Needless to say that we were pretty annoyed and stuffy given the incredible amount of dust & dirt inhaled (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 ...
Dave is Dumb......bro
This is a top pick! ... I have to add..... Dave made the same mistake I did when he came to Goa.....he thought it was one beach rather than a state in India. On the day Dave was suppose to arrive I got a phone call from him telling me he was in Goa and to ...
Off to the beaches (wheres the party?)
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Last days in Goa
This is a top pick! 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 ...
I loves me a casino...
This is a top pick! ... average Goans personal GDP is 2.5x that of the average Indian. As a result poverty is less prevalent in Goa than other parts of India and there seems to be more middle-class as a percentage of the overall population in the state. ...
Still in Goa.......
This is a top pick! ... in Goa - different licensing laws) and also because we met an extremely amiable Northern Irish guy. He had been dreaming of travelling round India since he was 18 and now 40 years on he is fulfilling that dream, It's the one thing I'm determined to not ...
Goa - India
This is a top pick! ... these people (with we undoubtedly do) but either way, we've felt a bit on the outside during our trip round India. I should point out that, particularly in the south, we've found the Indian people themselves to be immensely friendly. The ...
Three Buses & a Tuk-Tuk later....
This is a top pick! Day 32 ; Patnem beach!? So when you come from somewhere like gokarna its seems so weird to be in a place that has been built up for package tour holidays and so many British people, we have seen one British person before this, to then be surrounded by ...
Ahhhhh, Goodbye Patnem, Agonda woops yo ass!
This is a top pick! Day 35; these days are starting to get confusing! (silly Phil for starting it, now I have to continue!) On to agonda from Patnem, and this time it was a nice surprise to get to the type of beach we enjoy, a lot less people and spread across a bigger ...
Long day and even longer night!
This is a top pick! ... to wait for our bus and got told ours was late so would be there till half 9 so standing there among a load of extremely drunk India men one who had been a problem the day we had booked the ticket, trying to take a cigarette out of Phil's hand and ...
Flea market
This is a top pick! ... gave money away today but was in a good like and it was worth it, got some great pics of the karnatakan tribal women who come to goa, and bought one lady, stall owner a Pepsi instead of buying from her, she said present, and led us by the hand to go get ...
Bourbons,Bombay mix and back to India with a bump!
This is a top pick! ... enough to do from where we are, head to Margao (Madgaon) from there direct overnight sleeper bus to Hampi.. Welcome back to India, stifling heat, horns and lots of bodies, booked our tickets just outside the Kadamba-Ktc bus stand and walked the three km ...
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 ...
Freakin Hawkers...
This is a top pick! Day 39 ; Best to get moving again, you get restless and lazy, although it turned out to be a day we hadn't bargained for! firstly took the bus from Agonda in search of Caneguinim beach, off the local tourist map/guide we bought, well we found it, but not ...
Goan food at last...
This is a top pick! ... yes some more sun worship. We had an amazing meal tonight, although mine was not at all Indian it was cooked and eaten in India so classed as Indian! battered prawns with a colesaw dip ow it sounds boring but seriously it was the tastes thing ever! Phil ...
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, ...
"the indian haircut" i thought i would ...
This is a top pick! "THE INDIAN HAIRCUT"........................................................... I thought I would enquire about having my haircut at the local hairdressers shop. I was thinking of having my hair trimmed in 2 days time by a professional English ...
Get a lower bunk just not near the front
This is a top pick! ... , so back south to Colva - a couple of km's. Dropped into an atm booth, someone sleeping on the floor in a blanket in the room...India. Thought we had a long cold wait ahead of us, but no, what else would you expect in India, some old bloke wanders over, ...