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Goa Beaches Tour
Goa is one of India's special tourist places that can boast of fantastic
weather, fabulous beaches, wonderful people, mouth-watering cuisine, forts.
There are beaches far from human habitation with very basic or sometimes
no facility for accommodation. Then there are some with ultra modern comforts
like internet cafes, massage centers, gyms, swimming pools, night clubs,
etc. With such an enormous choice, one might feel confused about which
one to take.
Anjuna Beach:
Anjuna, 18 kms from Panaji is a popular beach area adjacent to Chapora fort-
it was the haunt of the flower generation in the sixties - and is still
popular with the younger generation. In Anjuna there is magnificent Albuquerque
mansion built in 1920, flanked by octagonal towers and attractive Mangalore
tiled-roof.
The Anjuna band plays for the beach party at night. Palm trees stand
motionless in the warm air. To the east is a mountain. If you want to
return to civilization, climb the mountain to get to Baga where you can
catch a ferry out. This is the Goa Freak capital of the World. Anjuna
becomes a fair of colors. Lines of vehicles full of tourists start virtually
raising clouds of dust in this area.
Calangute Beach:
Excellent accommodation facilities are available, particularly at the tourist
resort and cottages. Calangute lie on the shores of the Arabian Sea of North
Goa in India. It is encircled by Arpora-Nagoa, Saligao and Candolim, in
the Bardez taluka.
16 Kms from Panaji. is the most popular holiday resort in Goa and known
as The Queen of Beaches. Being a popular holiday resort, the small houses
amidst the coconut groves behind the beach are always in constant demand.
Calangute seems to be a distortion of the local vernacular word ‘Koli-gutti’,
which means land of fishermen. Some people connect it with Kalyangutti
(village of art) or Konvallo-ghott (strong pit of the coconut tree) because
the village is full of coconut trees. With the advent of the Portuguese,
the word probably got distorted to Calangute, and has stuck till today.
Dona Paula Beach:
7 kms from Panaji. An idyllic picturesque spot. Command a fine view of the
Zuari river and Mormugao Harbour. Water scootering facilities are available
here. It is near the rocky point between the Mandovi and the Zuari is Dona
Paula, a secluded bay with a fine view of the Marmagao harbour. This is
an idyllic spot to relax and sunbathe. Water scootering facilities available.
On the northern banks of the River Zuari, a little away to tie south
east of Cabo, lies a large escarpment with a bay and two small beaches
which in the old days was part of Oddavel. The Dona Paula bay is at the
place where two of Goa's famous rivers meet the Arabian sea.
Arambol Beach:
Arambol is along the Goa border with its fresh water lagoon. Due to its
isolation, some tourists has been unable to reach this beach. It is the
16-km-long sea beach. The main beach has adequate body surfing and there
are several attractive bays a short walk to the north. Arambol Beach is
50 kms from Panaji. A unique beach in the North Goa, is both rocky and sandy
beach and much sought after. It has a sweet water pond right on the shore.
Palolem Beach:
Palolem is Goa's one of the most beautiful and idyllic beach and it has
1.5 km crescent shaped beach. The beach lies on the southern coastline of
Goa amidst outstanding natural beauty.
The sweeping crescent of white sand is fringed by a shady rim of coconut
palms and the whole beach is hemmed in at either end by rocky crags.
Palolem is about 37 kms from Margao. Just west of Chaudi one of the most
enchanting beaches in Goa relatively deserted, with backdrop of Western
ghats, situated in Southern Taluka of Canacona.
Agonda Beach:
If you continue driving towards Panaji from Palolem, the next beach is Agonda.
It’s long and lonely, fringed with palms and casuarinas and dominated
by a large hill to the south.
It’s not safe to swim out too far on this beach. There are very
few facilities available here and you are needed to carry all the essentials.
Agonda is a three-kilometer long beautiful cove of white sand, safely
secluded in the palms. There are no tourists, no souvenir stalls, no restaurants,
nothing.
Vagator Beach:
This beautiful beach is located about 22 Kms from Panaji and is situated
in Bardez taluka. This is part of a 30 km stretch of beach coastline along
the west coast of Goa.
The arabian sea that begins at Fort Aguada continues as Sinquerim beach,
then as Candolim beach and merges into Calangute beach and then to Baga
beach and then Anjuna beach and then to Vagator beach finally ending at
Chapora beach and Fort.
The beach adjoining Anjuna is secluded, crescent shaped and situated
on the Caisua bay along the Chapora river basin, in the shadow of Chapora
fort.
Miramar Beach:
This beautiful beach is located about 3kms from Panaji. It lies adjoining
the estuary of the river Mandovi as it opens into the Arabian sea. It was
originally known as the "Gasper Dias Beach". From the beach across
the river is an excellent view of Fort Aguada.
Apart from its proximity to Panaji, it is very much commercialized and
a large number of hotels and exclusive homes of Goa's rich and famous
stud the area.
Colva Beach:
This is the most important beach in the south circuit equipped with all
modern amenities like air-conditioned resort complexes, tourist cottages,
discos, seashell artefact stalls, refreshment stalls, eateries, guest houses,
expanding the village enormously.
The Church of Our Lady Of Mercy in Colva is famous for its miracle statue
of Menino Jesus. The road leading from the Church to the beach is where
all the facilities are located. Colva is a small village in south Goa
on the shores of the Arabian Sea. It lies 39 km away from Panaji, capital
of the Indian state of Goa. Two km further ahead from Colva is Benaulim.
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