Every holiday is a break, while Goa beach tours are a breakaway! Break away from the humdrum, the routine, and the normal, for an experience that has the flavor of the west in the east. Goa is the second home of the western traveler. Given its history as a one time Portuguese colony with a Catholic heritage, Goa’s landscape has many churches, old Portuguese-style houses and of course its pleasure island beaches.
Celebrated from times immemorial (it couldn’t be otherwise!) as a Mecca for beach side party-goers, Goa is a perfect go-get idyllic holiday. For those who like a bit of spice, the Goan trance party is an adrenalin rush you don’t want to miss. For the rest, any place in Goa is good enough to chill. Rather inexplicably, many of the places surrounding the beaches have an international village feel.
Goa’s demographic is a unique potpourri, with Israelis, Germans, Americans, French and many more having a visible presence. Everyone will tell you that if you have seen a beach, you have seen them all, but really, there’s something about Goan beaches that you can’t put your finger on. That’s why connoisseurs of Goa say that while you can take away yourself from Goa, you can’t take away Goa from you. It could be the ambience, the people, the seaside food, the feel of romance in the air, or just a mix of the elements or whatever.
Mostly Hindu, but a dominant Christian influence is prevalent in the beach front areas. The locals are much more easy-going than Indians; they believe in spreading the sauce. A typical Goa Beach Tour will include a cool swim, great seafood, meeting interesting people, music and dance, beachside sunset, moonlight walks – an unbeatable package. For most Indians and quite a few foreign tourists, ushering in the New Year and celebrating Christmas in Goa is a ritual. December and January is when everyone cashes in big time.
If you are the kind who likes a highfalutin screen shot of the frenetic fashion of Goa, the end of the year is where the year begins with a bang. For the conservative kind, wait for the tourists to empty out, to enjoy Goa all by your self.
Every beach in Goa has a story of its own.
A string of cafes and houses are tucked away in the forest beyond the reach of the guidebooks and it adds a tantalizing edge to the magic and mystery of the Goa Tours. Beach shacks all over tune up the music and invite you to shake a leg or two.
North Anjuna is one of the most popular beaches of Goa. Anjuna is also home to the weekly flea market that first started off with a few hippies selling their home made chillums back in the 60’s. Now it sprawls all over the rice paddies and the commotion starts well before dawn as traders arrive to sell their trinkets, crystal jewelry, fire sticks, juggling balls and stuff.
And then there is Vagator beach, younger and cooler than Anjuna, where swimming is pretty high on the backpacker’s to-do list, Chapora, famous for its local cuisine, and Arambol, a long sweeping beach serenaded on the periphery with fresh water lagoons frequented by tourists for mud baths, and yoga, Tai Chi or Reiki courses.
The Goan cuisine is a blend of the Latin love of meat and fish with India’s predilection for spices, quite unlike any other regional cuisine in Asia. Beer is everywhere, as is the more traditional tipple, feni, a rocket-fuel spirit distilled from cashew fruit or coconut sap. Tuck into a fresh kingfish, tandoori pomfret or lobster, washed down with a feni cocktail or an ice-cool Kingfisher beer, at any of the beach shacks.
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