| Old Portuguese forts or professional yoga lessons? | | | | Anjuna & Vagator - the birth place of Goa |
| Crowded beaches or all on your own? Luxury hotels | | | | Trance |
| or palm thatched huts? Whatever you prefer, you | | | | Where the rhythm reigns! It seeps into every pore |
| will find a favorite beach in Goa. | | | | and makes you move in step with the hundreds of |
| Calangute, Baga & Candolim - The family | | | | other people on the beach, all dancing, alone or |
| beaches in Goa | | | | together with others, but hardly ever to impress |
| At Calangute Beach there is room for the whole | | | | anyone. It still happens that a group gathers at some |
| family, with 3 miles of pure entertainment. The | | | | remote beach and dances thru the night on chemicals |
| younger ones can play beach volley while older | | | | and love. But if you want trance parties that have |
| people can relax in the shadows, while enjoying a | | | | not been outlawed by the local authorities, you have |
| Mango lassi, the sweet yoghurt-based drink with | | | | to go to the legendary Nine Bar on Vagator Beach, |
| Mango. For those wanting to party on when the kids | | | | or Paradiso on Anjuna Beach. |
| have been put to bed, there is Baga Beach in the | | | | Anjuna Beach is located just north of Baga Beach, |
| north, where the beer flows freely along with | | | | about 15 miles from Panaji, and 45 miles from |
| western pop music around the small palm huts on the | | | | Dabolim Airport. |
| beach. For the more adventurous minded, there are | | | | Arambol - Yoga and wholemeal bread the Goa way |
| dolphin and crocodile safaris leaving Candolim Beach, | | | | When the tourists took over Goa, the hippies moved |
| to the south. | | | | north to Arambol Beach, set up yoga institutes, |
| Calangute, Baga and Candolim beaches are located | | | | health care shops and paragliding schools. A little to |
| south of Anjuna, some 12 miles away from Panaji, | | | | the south, you can visit Morjim Beach, where sea |
| and 40 miles from Dabolim Airport. | | | | turtles lay their eggs in the sand, and Indian guards |
| Benaulim - Beautiful sights and colorful entertainment | | | | watch over them until they hatch exactly 54 days |
| in Goa | | | | later. Stay at the old Fort Tiracol north of Arambol, |
| According to Hindu myth, Goa was created when the | | | | which has been transformed into a tasteful hotel, or |
| god Vishnu in his sixth incarnation shot an arrow from | | | | one of the palm thatched huts along the beach. |
| the mountains in the south, and asked the god of | | | | Arambol Beach is in northernmost Goa |
| the seas to retreat to where the arrow landed. Banali | | | | Palolem - The Postcard Beach in Goa |
| means "where the arrow landed", but the Portuguese | | | | The beautiful Palolem Bay is refreshingly free of |
| found it easier to pronounce as Benaulim. On this | | | | concrete constructions, as the local authorities |
| beautiful beach the melon sellers mingle with holy | | | | bulldozed all illegal buildings in 2006. Instead there are |
| cows, fishing boats and unauthorized masseurs, and if | | | | palm huts, great food and lots of places close by |
| the show gets just too colorful you can also rent a | | | | where one can find an isolated spot. No matter if |
| scooter and take a trip beyond the old Portuguese | | | | your partner is your boy or girl friend, a good book, |
| mansions lining the beach. | | | | your iPod or just silence, you're sure to have a lower |
| Benaulim Beach can be found 3 miles from Margao in | | | | heart rate when your return from here! |
| southern Goa | | | | |