Anjuna, Goa

After a well slept rocky night we arrived in Mapusa and were surrounded by Taxi-Wallahs. We took a rickshaw to drive us to our destination: AnjunaPalms Guesthouse. We have a nice private cottage on the owners backyard. A good deal for 6€ / night, including (slow) WiFi. (previously in Hotel Pearl they had big commercials for "free internet 24/7" but when we arrived there the "free internet" was one shared laptop in lobby of the hotel.)

Anjuna traffic

One more curiousity in AnjunaPalms Guesthouse is the daily mass organized by our landlord. Daily around 16-17 o'clock ~20 indian worshippers come to sing praise for Virgin Mary in front of our cottage.
Anjuna is a sleepy touristvillage at this time of the year. High season starts on November. Now it is more peaceful but also many restaurants and other attractions are still closed. Tuesday we slept the most of the day due to "jetlag" from bus trip.

On Wednesday we did some more proper venturing, finding paradise beach, rocks, cliffs and lot's of green fields (rice and other plantations).

Anjuna Beach

We also popped by the wednesday fleamarket, a big attraction that turned out to be less of a fleamarket and more of tourist market. After saying "no thanks" politely many times we were getting more aggravated and in mood to flee from the place. So we went back to the beach, I did some swimming (not really possible due to high waves) and we both got nicely sunburnt. (The standard tourist colouring, looking like new born piggies sprayed with tomato soup.)

Fleamarket

Later on we decided to have some more western food and went to pizzeria Basilico. The food was good but a bit on expensive side  - almost 4€ per pizza. Well atleast we had dozen of servants running around. (We were a bit underdressed compared to their normal clients even tho they were strictly westerners. The only indians in there were cleaning & serving.)

On thursday morning we had a nice walk behind the fleamarket area and had some vegan food in "Whole bean" restaurant. Food was ok but not the best vegan health food we had here. For tastier and 50cnt more expensive vegan/health food is better to go "Blue Tao" (That we had visited on Tuesday evening).