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| Goa, with its charming beaches, thrilling nightlife, exotic cuisines, and historic edifices, and a unique blend of Konkani and Portuguese cultures, it is one of the much sought after anytime holiday destinations in India. |
Be it the beaches, churches or temples of Goa all attract tourists and travellers to the golden holiday destination. For most of the
people heading towards Goa, it is one long beach. But once they are there they realize this folly of them. Goa is a state though a small
one and there is a large number of famous beaches, many towns and a good network of roads. It is a state of seven rivers and their
estuaries, there are hills with lush green vegetation, and most of the tourists are needed to cover large distances to move from one
place to other. Goa has a total coastline of 125 km and that makes people believe that it is a long big beach however illusionary it is.
Beaches of Goa are much ahead of other beaches in India in terms of popularity and the facilities that are available here. The
beaches here have been accepted as a matter of life, there are exotic cuisine backing the pleasure of have on sun and sand, and
water sports facilities that include from water scooters to water gliding. To add on you can shake your legs for some time with a glass
of feni and beer, engaged in shopping on the beachside, or have midnight bonfire on the beach. There are some more aspects of
Goa beaches that attract tourists every year. Whatsoever times you have visited these beaches they tend to change their look and get
new designs every new season. These beaches refurbish themselves every new season and enhance the excitement of visitors who
are never tired of appreciating Goa. Out of 125 km of coastline the beaches of Goa cover not less than 83 km and there is one for you
also waiting to be explored. Go and find it!
The Aguada Bay (parts of which are known as Caranzalem Bay and Sinquerim Bay) is formed by two promontories: Cabo and
Aguada.
Geomorphologists theorize that the Goan hills on the eastern side succumbed to the effects of erosion and fractured, while those on
the western side stayed more or less stable.
Mythologists and minstrels have more exciting stories about the promontories, which they believe were once the celestial
playgrounds of voluptuous gods.
Between science and myth stands a glorious reality - 40 lovely beaches, most of them pollution free, though not all of them as safe
as swimmers would wish. The most developed beach segment is the Calangute - Baga - Anjuna belt in the Bardesh subdivision
north of Panaji.
The north Goa beaches in Pernem subdivision are delightfully primitive and untouched: Keri beach (with Tiracol and an ancient
Portuguese fort on the other bank); Arambol (also known as Harmal); Mandrem (a toddy tappers' and palm distillers' hamlet with two
little beaches: Lemos and Asvem) and Morji. The local people are friendly and un-interfering, the markets fairly well stocked and the
public transportation system reasonably efficient. By way of accommodation there are somewhat Spartan cottages and thatched huts.
The Chapora river demarcates the Bardesh subdivision, the home ground of several beaches: Chapora, Anjuna, Baga, Calangute,
Candolim, Sinquerim and an inner beach, Quegdevelim, one of the few rocky beaches in Goa and also a shell collectors haven.
Off the Mandovi estuary, in the Tiswadi subdivision, there are little beaches which are both tranquil and well-connected.
Other beaches are: Caranzalem, Marvel, Dona Paula, Bambolim and Siridao, all in close proximity to Mormugao harbor. The
Mormugao subdivision has a string of excellent beaches, like Bogmalo, Issorcim, Cola (a rich spawning ground for fish and
crustaceans), Pale, Velsao, and Cansaulim. The Vasco da Gama beaches of Cumberthi and Baina are sadly, totally polluted and very
nearly destroyed.
The Salcete subdivision accounts for Goa's widest and cleanest beaches. They are Gaudalim, Colva (Goa's largest beach),
Benaulim, Mobor, Varca, Carmona, and Cavelossim, the latter now overcrowded with new hotels. Further south, are more beaches
as primitive as those of the Pernem subdivision but much less frequently used by foreign tourists. Only adventurous campers dare
there. Try them. The local gentry once owned exclusive shacks, which were used in the summer months.
There are also in the same subdivision of Canacona, the Palolem, Colamba, Talpona and Galgibaga beaches. That is where Goa
ends. Across is the Karnatakan beach of Karwar and, somewhere in between, lost in the sea, the Goan island of Anjediva which the
Portuguese epic poet Camoens once described as the "Island of Love" It is now a naval establishment and out of bounds for civilians
without a special security clearance.
And some day soon, the coastal stretch between Goa and Bombay is going to be the scene of much treasure hunting. At least 200
ships were wrecked on the coast in the last two centuries alone. Though the voyage lists of most of the ships are mysteriously
laconic about the cargo on board, it is known that at least six ships carried treasure consisting of the noble metals - the old
terminology for silver and gold - and possibly gems and stones. Those days there were no port agents to meet the ships' expenses.
So, each ship carried quite a few hundred kilograms of coins for disbursements of various kinds: wages, payment of stores and
acquisition of goods. The 200 ships must be worth a fortune in terms of sunken cash chests alone.
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