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Anjuna
Beach |
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| Goa Anjuna
beach comes to life with the flea market and the
full-moon beach parties at Goa Anjuna beach that
continue through out the night. The flea market
at Goa Anjuna beach offers a tourist just about
anything he desires, right from swim suits to water-sports
equipments to second hand bikes to cameras to various
trinkets that can taken away as souvenirs to…just
about anything. The Anjuna beach flea market is
held on Wednesdays and if you are good at bargaining,
then you can walk away with good stuff at throw
away prices. |
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Baga
Beach |
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| Baga Beach
is part of a 30-km stretch of beach coastline along
the west coast of Goa by the Arabian Sea, 10-km
west of Mapusa, is basically an extension of Calangute
beach. The beach 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.Baga beach is more
popular with western tourists who love to use it
as a base for water sports and fishing in the area. |
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Dona
Paula Beach |
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At the place
where two of Goa's famous rivers meet the Arabian
Sea is the secluded bay of Dona Paula with a fine
view of the Marmagoa Harbour. This beach of Goa
carries with it an aura of both romance and myth
- haunted by Dona Paula de Menezes; tourists throng
the Dona Paula beach not only in search of the deceased
beloved, but also to indulge in water sports on
the clear waters. The Dona Paula Beach offers an
opportunity to the tourists to have a sunbath and
enjoy water scootering and motar boat rides.
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Calangute
Beach |
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| A 45 minute
bus ride up to the coast from the city of Panjim
bring one to Calangute, Goa's busiest and most commercialized
resort, and the flagship of the state government's
bid for a bigger slice of India's package-tourist
pie. This peaceful fishing village was a favourite
hideout of the hippies in the 70's and 80's. Today,
Calangute beach symbolise Goa's reputation as a
haven for beach and coastal splendour.The beach
itself is nothing special, with steeply shelving
sand, but is more than large enough to accommodate
the huge numbers of high-season visitors. |
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Cavelosim
Beach |
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| Sleepy
Cavelossim, straddling the coast road 11-km south
of Colva, is the last major settlement in southwest
Salcete: its only claim to fame. When here do plan
a visit to Mabor, South Goa largest, and most obtrusive,
package tourist enclave. Crammed together on to
a narrow spit of dunes between the surf and estuary,
the holiday inns and beach resorts combine to create
a holiday camp ambience that has as little to do
with Goa as their architecture. |
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Chapora
Beach |
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| Crouched
in the shadow of a Portuguese fort on the opposite,
northern side of the headland from Vagator, Chapora,
10-km from Mapusa, is a lot busier than most north
coast villages. Dependent on fishing and boat building,
it has, to a great extent, retained a life of its
own independent of tourism. The leisure purpose
is very well served by the Main Street, lined with
as many regular stores as travellers cafes and restaurants.
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Pololem
Beach |
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Palolem
pops up, as a favourite beach destination in Goa
because its crescent shaped bay lined with a swaying
curtain of coconut palms, is irresistibly photogenic.
Frem accommodation point of view, there are beautiful
beach huts and family room to choose from in Palolem.
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Bogmolo
Beach |
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When compared
with Calangute Or Colva, Bogmalo still seems a small-scale
beach resort, still there's something about seclusion
that one finds over here that makes one visit this
beach area every time one visit's Goa. Beside this
beach site is a reasonably safer site for swimming
and have quite good eating joints and shopping options
in Goa.
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Vagator
Beach |
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| Barely
a couple of kilometres of cliff tops and parched
grassland separate Anjuna from the southern fringes
of its nearest neighbour, Vagator. Yet to be disturbed
by the hustle and bustle of tourists, life goes
on peacefully, in the background, in Vagator and
Chapora. It is cool rural area, without offering
the tourist any big shopping complexes. |
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Varca
Beach |
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If one
is staying in Benaulim, one is bound at some point
to visit Varca. Do check out the row of beached
wooden fishing boats 2-km south of Benaulim that
belong to its community of Christian fisher folk,
whose palm thatched long houses line the foot of
the grassy dunes.
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