Category: India
Here is our first destination and where we will be be staying in Colva Beach, near Benaulim, South Goa. This will be our home for the next month. We found it on the property rental website Vrbo
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Dudhsagar Falls
I recommend a day away from the beaches to do this trip, well worth a visit. We left nice and early, which was a good thing to do as the crowds build up quickly during the morning. It’s about a 1 hour 15 min taxi from Colva, then you get on a bumpy old jeep…
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Eating out and Eating in
Went out tonight to a local pizza restaurant recommended by our apartment hosts, and very good it was too. Not the most exotic environment but the pizzas were excellent and cheap. If you’re in Colva I would recommend Woodfire smoked Pizza. Last night we also made our second home made curry, this time using the…
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Local food
Paid a visit to the local fish market today, unreal, so basic, cheap and yummy. Got some golden fish and king prawns, cooked up the golden fish tonight with some masala spices and a side salad, delicious? Going to do the prawns in a curry next week, sitting nicely in our freezer right now.
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Varca Beach
Took a Tuk Tuk to Varca beach today, probably the prettiest beach we’ve been to so far, quite remote but had a great beach shack as always serving food and cold drinks all day. The best bit about these beach shacks is that you pay nothing for sun beds or umbrellas. You just get a…
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Colva and Colva Beach
So been in Colva now for 3 days and it’s already feeling like home. Typical chaotic Indian atmosphere, but fantastic smells and sights all around us, such a unique place. Been for a Tuk Tuk ride into the closest large town Magoa, that was a trip to test your nerves, how these guys don’t have…