Last day in Goa

DAY 4 – AGONDA BEACH, CASO DE RAMA, CAVELOSSIUM BEACH

Early morning we drove to the deserted Galjibag Beach again. The morning on the beach was fantastic. It was high tide and therefore the sea was rough. The beach was empty and undisturbed. We all enjoyed the strong sea, its madness and its solitude. Since it was our last day in Goa we had to keep a tab on time and therefore headed to our hotel.

Galjibag Beach

We checked out of the hotel around 10:30 am and headed to Agonda Beach. 

Agonda Beach was fifteen mins drive from Palolem. Agonda beach stretches long almost 3 kms, the water is calm and shallow. From the looks of it I can say that it is a beach as popular as Palolem. There were many workers making shacks and wooden huts for accommodation. It seems the Goa season will be on pretty soon.

After Agonda, we were on our way to Caso De Rama. It is a fort. After a long drive to the fort and climbing the ghats and loads of curves on the road we reached the fort. We dint see the fort much as it was extremely hot. We just saw the view of the Arabain Sea from the fort which was mesmerizing. The sea looks so quiet from the fort. There is a church inside the fort as well.

View from Caso De Rama

Our next stop was Cavelossium Beach. Our only reason to stop at this beach was its popularity. We have heard a lot about this beach. The beach water was crystal clear and one can see the colour of their foot’s nail polish. This was the only beach which had water sports. We saw tourist doing parasailing and riding water scooter. This beach had right amount of frolic and peace. Not too isolated as Galjibag and slightly more urban than Palolem.

Many luxury hotels are on this beach. Since we were running out of time we din’t wait much on this beach and headed to Madgaon. We bought some cashews from Madgaon and had lunch at a restaurant called Krishna. After the lunch we bought Babinca enroute station.

We caught Kokan Kanya from Madgaon Station at 04:45 pm.

Once the train started moving from the station the only thought on everyone’s mind was - Goa Trip was over. These four days were over so fast… We reached Mumbai (Dadar) at 5:30 am. Took local train and were home around 6:15 am.

South Goa is much quieter and not much hot and happening like North Goa. It is suggested for a pleasant and peaceful stay where you don’t want to be disturbed at all with anything around.

Whenever we want to hop from one beach to another, ride a bike in a carefree mood, to get lost in tons of beer and finally to slow the pace of life we should head straight to Goa. While the sun, sand and sea are the first images that comes to one’s mind when we hear the word ‘Goa’, in reality this state is blessed with so much more natural beauty. Next time when you go to Goa soak in the beauty that Goa is blessed with.

With Love:  

I would like to thank Ashish & Charitra for the amazing hospitality. Ashish, we had amazing fun with the Board Games. Parth if you were not leading us then we won’t have reached the waterfall…thanks buddy.. Nikki… you are a rockstar with Activa… and Nikhil for your awesome DSLR.

Madgaon to Palolem

DAY 1 – MADGAON TO PALOLEM

After appreciating the natural beauty of Konkan we again dozed off and when we got up the train has reached Sawantwadi. Post this, we enter Goa. We had tea in the train and around 10 am we got off at Madgaon. Since Mr. Professor (Ashish is a physics professor) was busy cleaning is college (There was a cleanliness drive in his college), his father had come to pick us up at the station. We dumped our luggage in the boot of Alto and off we were to Ashish’s place. His place was a ten minute drive from the station. We met his wife Charitra and his mom and enjoyed the breakfast with tea and coffee. Ashish came home around 11:30 and the only thing he cleaned in the college was his own drawer :p

We then picked up our Activas. Ashish has already booked two brand new activas for us. Thank God for that else we would have been in trouble. Because of the long weekend Goa was packed and there was shortage of Activas and the available ones were going at a step rent of Rs 1,000 per day… shocking!!! (We got for Rs 300 per day).

We again went to Ashish’s place, picked up Charitra, their luggage and booze (2^nd Oct is a dry day so Ashish has bought it before hand).

Finally we were off and heading to Palolem. Nikita and I were on two Activas and Ashish, Charitra, Nikhil and Parth sat comfortably in the car.

Madgaon to Palolem is 40 Kms approx with beautiful roads, lots of greenery, up and down few hills.

We had already made our booking in Castle House on Palolem - Patnem Road for three nights. We checked in the hotel around 1:00 pm. We all had a shower and realized that we were famished. Ordered food and played a round of pool. We had a late lunch as the service of the restaurant was quite slow (as per Mumbai standards).

After late lunch and some time pass we headed to Palolem Beach. The first sight of Palolem beach was beautiful. There was not much crowd of the beach.. we could see that there were hardly any shacks on the beach. The work for building shacks was in progress. 

First View of Palolem Beach

A boat on the beach

Palolem Beach

People enjoying a dip in the sea

The beach was clean and the water clear. There were many people enjoying a bath in the sea water, kids making castles, boys playing football etc. We saw the sun set from the beach and strolled around.

Playing football on the beach

The Sunset

Colours in the sky

After the sunset we headed back to our hotel and played a board game – Settlers of Catan (Ashish is crazy about board games).