Anjuna is a cozy little tourist village slowly waking up from summersleep. Mostly we have been walking around the mainstrip (with many sandy sidepaths) and enjoying the weather and surroundings.
Beach is nice, a long sandstrip with palmtrees, beachbars (their loud music and colored lightstrings and lanterns make a great atmosphere for a romantic stroll on the beach at night), souvenier sellers, cows and dogs. It is easy to spend days just lying around in there (if you manage to keep sellers away).
The bad thing in this area is that it is really touristical and therefore all locals are trying to sell you something. (Everyday we walk out of our cottage to mainroad there's same guys asking us do we want to rent a taxi/scooter/bicycle/shirts/eat/, and everytime we say "no" they reply "maybe tomorrow".) This is pretty much the only irritation down here on paradise beach.
Weather has been mostly awesome, there was a couple of rainy evenings/nights but for the last week it has been good. We have started to have siestas around midday due to heat...
We have also been walking to neighbouring villages, a couple of times to Vagator and Chapora and also to hills around Vagator and Anjuna. From one of the hills we found an abandoned construction site, currently inhabited by packs of wild dogs. We later on asked about this from our landlord and she said they were illegal constructions built by people out of Goa. It is forbidden to build in the mountains due to high erosion risk.
Another slightly sadder side we are seeing is huge platforms few kilometers offshore. They are collecting sand for construction yards around India and at the same steepening the shore and contributing to erosion. Hopefully these kind of shortsided actions do not destroy Goa as we know it.
On Saturday we are planning to move away from the Paradise and into heartbeat of a city, Panaji, the capital of Goa. We also bought prepaid subscription in here so we can call, negotiate and reserve hostels by ourselves. Our Indian mobile phonenumber is +917709450078.
Anjuna traffic, part II
Beach is nice, a long sandstrip with palmtrees, beachbars (their loud music and colored lightstrings and lanterns make a great atmosphere for a romantic stroll on the beach at night), souvenier sellers, cows and dogs. It is easy to spend days just lying around in there (if you manage to keep sellers away).
Girls on the beach
The bad thing in this area is that it is really touristical and therefore all locals are trying to sell you something. (Everyday we walk out of our cottage to mainroad there's same guys asking us do we want to rent a taxi/scooter/bicycle/shirts/eat/, and everytime we say "no" they reply "maybe tomorrow".) This is pretty much the only irritation down here on paradise beach.
Weather has been mostly awesome, there was a couple of rainy evenings/nights but for the last week it has been good. We have started to have siestas around midday due to heat...
Temple in Chapora
Drying the rice
We have also been walking to neighbouring villages, a couple of times to Vagator and Chapora and also to hills around Vagator and Anjuna. From one of the hills we found an abandoned construction site, currently inhabited by packs of wild dogs. We later on asked about this from our landlord and she said they were illegal constructions built by people out of Goa. It is forbidden to build in the mountains due to high erosion risk.
Climbing up the hill
Abandoned buildings (and thorns in shoe)
View from top of the hill
Another slightly sadder side we are seeing is huge platforms few kilometers offshore. They are collecting sand for construction yards around India and at the same steepening the shore and contributing to erosion. Hopefully these kind of shortsided actions do not destroy Goa as we know it.
On Saturday we are planning to move away from the Paradise and into heartbeat of a city, Panaji, the capital of Goa. We also bought prepaid subscription in here so we can call, negotiate and reserve hostels by ourselves. Our Indian mobile phonenumber is +917709450078.
Leuk te zien dat het goed met jullie gaat! Een dikke zoen van Roeland xx
ReplyDeleteLeuk om jullie verhalen te lezen en alle foto's en filmpjes te bekijken! Ik ben jaloers! :D Je blog staat in mijn favorieten ;) Veel plezier
ReplyDeletexxx Mandy
whoa, hakenkruizen!!! :p
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