Goa .. Indeed is fun capital of India.. I came back from Singapore and immediately next weekend we were planning to take a long trip to Goa for 4 days. Initially I was planning to leave on Thursday Night 1st Dec but due to demonetization effect (Long ATM queue's to withdraw cash) we left on Friday Night 2nd Dec. I booked a Hotel (Estrella Do mar) in Goa near Calangute beach.. So we started around 7 Pm from house.. boarded Bus from Nigdi Bus stop in Pune.
Day-1
Reached Mapusa Bus Stop (Nearest Bus Stop to Calangute.. Baga beach) at 9 am in the morning next day. Check time in our hotel was 2:00 Pm (Not sure why its too late...).. we went to the hotel kept our luggage in their luggage room. Best thing about Goa is.. Hire a two wheeler and you are a free bird.. go anywhere you want without any dependency on Cabs/Autos/Buses etc. etc. So we hired an Activa just outside our hotel for 300 bucks per day.. I had to give my I-card as a security... What Now... First Stop... Anjuna Beach!!!!
Day-1
Reached Mapusa Bus Stop (Nearest Bus Stop to Calangute.. Baga beach) at 9 am in the morning next day. Check time in our hotel was 2:00 Pm (Not sure why its too late...).. we went to the hotel kept our luggage in their luggage room. Best thing about Goa is.. Hire a two wheeler and you are a free bird.. go anywhere you want without any dependency on Cabs/Autos/Buses etc. etc. So we hired an Activa just outside our hotel for 300 bucks per day.. I had to give my I-card as a security... What Now... First Stop... Anjuna Beach!!!!
Anjuna Beach.. its nearly 7-8 Kms from Calangute.. we three were very hungry after long bus journey and then coming to Anjuna. First thing Breakfast at Guru Bar.. its was nice palce to chill out and a awesome beach view. Next we headed to Anjuna beach.. White Sand .. Blue watre .. what else you need?.. Thourughly enjoyed the Sea, Sun and Sand. Manu (my lil daughter) and Anki enjoyed a lot paying in water.. after some till we were on our way back to Calangute.. Its was around 12:00 Noon and we were not sure what to do next.. got a call from Hotel that our room is ready.. Hurrrraaaayyy.. Thanks to kind staff. We checked in and get rid of salt and sand :) .. Took some rest and headed to Saturday Night Market @ Arpora. This market was full of foreigners and looking at prices of stuff being sold.. they were the target customers.. still Anki bought some earrings.. you got to bargain your heart out.. Called it a Day after some Shopping!!
Day-2
I woke up early in the morning and went for a walk at Calangute beach.. beach was quite in the morning... listening to the sound of sea waves and playing with water is such a serene experience. Churches of Goa.. we planned to visit atleast one church this time. After having a breakfast we headed to church of our lady of the immaculate conception (Difficult to remember this..had to google while writing Blog :) ) . I have seen this church in various bollywood movies and was very curious to visit it. Church is in Panaji and around 18Kms from Calangute.. it took 1 hr to reach this Place. Explores the church.. it was huge and exactly the way shown in movies. We headed back towards Calangute and after having lunch we went to Candolim beach.. Candolim is also one of the famous beach of north goa .. got one beach shack and enjoyed the sunkissed beach. Manu had gala time playing in sand. Later in the evening .. enjoyed a quick dip in hotel swimming pool.. and ended our day with a quite Candle (and moon) light dinner at anjuna beach.. amazing experience!!!
Day-3
Vagator Beach .. it's around 10 Kms from Calangute.. its very quite beach with very less crowd.. One very good thing about goa beaches is presence of life guards everywhere. Spent around two hours .. swimming in sea.. running on beach ... building castles .. what fun!!! Later we headed back to our hotel.. today Anki went to swim again in hotel swimming pool and took swimming classes from the coach present at hotel premises. We explored the local market and went to Baga beach to watch sunset... Baga beach was very crowdy.. after watching sunset we headed to Anjuna beach again .. did some shopping and ended our day again in the same way as yesterday.. Dinner in Moonlight over the beach..!!
Day-4
Last day.. :( .. since checkout was 11:00 Am .. we woke up and packed our bags.. kept bags and luggage room and headed to Arambol Beach..its 25 Kms from calangute and it took around 1.5 Hrs to reach here. We got one beach shack.. 200 Bucks and not time limit.. cant get better than this.. so this is what we did for next 6 Hrs.. SunBath .. Eat.. Swim in Sea.. Repeat!!! :) Best day of the 4 days (for me ;))... So finally we started back ... had a late lunch midway.. later we went to the same CCD in candolim where we came 7 Years back during our honeymoon.. headed to hotel.. gave back two wheeler.. picked luggage and got Taxi to O Coquiero circle.. Boarded the Bus at 7:00 Pm ..ending our memorable Trip!!!
Special mention of Goan shokeepers who were very helpful.. giving change of 2000 Rs Note... :)
-Jyotin
Day-2
I woke up early in the morning and went for a walk at Calangute beach.. beach was quite in the morning... listening to the sound of sea waves and playing with water is such a serene experience. Churches of Goa.. we planned to visit atleast one church this time. After having a breakfast we headed to church of our lady of the immaculate conception (Difficult to remember this..had to google while writing Blog :) ) . I have seen this church in various bollywood movies and was very curious to visit it. Church is in Panaji and around 18Kms from Calangute.. it took 1 hr to reach this Place. Explores the church.. it was huge and exactly the way shown in movies. We headed back towards Calangute and after having lunch we went to Candolim beach.. Candolim is also one of the famous beach of north goa .. got one beach shack and enjoyed the sunkissed beach. Manu had gala time playing in sand. Later in the evening .. enjoyed a quick dip in hotel swimming pool.. and ended our day with a quite Candle (and moon) light dinner at anjuna beach.. amazing experience!!!
Day-3
Vagator Beach .. it's around 10 Kms from Calangute.. its very quite beach with very less crowd.. One very good thing about goa beaches is presence of life guards everywhere. Spent around two hours .. swimming in sea.. running on beach ... building castles .. what fun!!! Later we headed back to our hotel.. today Anki went to swim again in hotel swimming pool and took swimming classes from the coach present at hotel premises. We explored the local market and went to Baga beach to watch sunset... Baga beach was very crowdy.. after watching sunset we headed to Anjuna beach again .. did some shopping and ended our day again in the same way as yesterday.. Dinner in Moonlight over the beach..!!
Day-4
Last day.. :( .. since checkout was 11:00 Am .. we woke up and packed our bags.. kept bags and luggage room and headed to Arambol Beach..its 25 Kms from calangute and it took around 1.5 Hrs to reach here. We got one beach shack.. 200 Bucks and not time limit.. cant get better than this.. so this is what we did for next 6 Hrs.. SunBath .. Eat.. Swim in Sea.. Repeat!!! :) Best day of the 4 days (for me ;))... So finally we started back ... had a late lunch midway.. later we went to the same CCD in candolim where we came 7 Years back during our honeymoon.. headed to hotel.. gave back two wheeler.. picked luggage and got Taxi to O Coquiero circle.. Boarded the Bus at 7:00 Pm ..ending our memorable Trip!!!
Special mention of Goan shokeepers who were very helpful.. giving change of 2000 Rs Note... :)
-Jyotin
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