Vista Do Rio Resort Goa

... in goa. so at the moment there are a ton of indian tourists here. we have mostly just been hanging out eating, drinking, relaxing......because of the holiday we couldn't do any work for the restaurant for about 4 days so it was good timing for shane and sarah to arrive. i showed them around calengute/baga area for a few days, did a little lying on the beach some swimming. we've had a few bbq's at roberts house, last saturday ...

... is kind of like Disneyland for the Sikhs (the ones who wear the turbans and carry swords!). It's the home of the Golden Temple and it is as it sounds...pretty damn golden. <br>The temple is a place where anyone can walk in and get a free feed, there's a 24hr kitchen churning out tons of boiled lentils and rice all year round. This was another 'spot the whiteys and get a photo with them' moment - pretty funny really. It was good though cause we got talking to a Sikh ...

... latest collection of henna designs activities with snowman for kindergarten perfect mehndi designs ...

... from a friend. This was a northern beach that you could come to that wasn't as touristy as others and you could just relax. After nearly a month of running around and seeing India, Gambol was a well earned break- a vacation from our vacation as we call it. Basically there is one mile and a half street from the intersection where the bus dropped us off that goes all the way down to the beach. About half way down the road, restaurants and guesthouse start to pop up and towards ...

... full, as was every other reasonably-priced hotel in the vicinity so we ended up going *looking* for a taxi driver who would take us to the hotel of his cousin-brother. Er, what? We managed to find one and ended up in a place about 5-10 minutes walk down the road which was fine, but still a bit pricey at just under 10 pounds (even though the taxi driver helped us to get 100 rupees knocked off the price), but by this stage we didn't think we should be too ...

... am kinda mad at the man for taking advantage of me in such a dire time. I turn to him and tell him that he would have gotten more money if he had been nice. I tell him it wasnt a nice thing to do and ask him if he would have made his mother wait. I dont know if he understands exactly what I said, but in any country when a woman needs to go badly you just step aside and let her go. That I think is a universal law. Mission accomplished and Irene and I head to figure ...

... trees and the waves crashing on the beach not 30 meters from my head. daniel left for new zealand on saturday and i headed to anjuna beach in northern goa a few days later, where i've spent a couple days amusing myself by hanging out with hippies who are based here for months to do intense drugs and have intense all day parties on the beach that end by 10 to comply with government regulations, which means i get to play frisbee while listening to the collective dissonance of ...

... and idled/chuckled the afternoon away. There was nothing else to do in this sort of weather At one point some kamikaze westerner was getting pummeled big style far out in the bay on a surf board. How he managed to make it back in I'll never know - after 30 min he'd managed to make round the back through serious swell, except there was no back - waves were breaking far out all the way in. He tried to take one wave, stacked it and that was it - I saw him emerge maybe ten minutes ...

... on the Nabob commercial) and Vanilla pods which was so cool. We ate off of Bittlenut plates and were served with clay utensils - this country is amazing - only in India.... We also discovered a great Mango drink called Mazza (which means fun in hindi) it was so yummy!! We were hoping to eat mangoes here but the foolish city girls that we are we did not realize they weren't in season. thay is okay we are eating our fare share of pineapples here - so juicy and delicious!! WE have ...