When someone says "I am going to Goa" the immediate reaction for most of us will be to congratulate the person on his turn to drink a lot of booze at cheap prices and roam around the beaches of Goa. That is what Goa was and is to all of us - a land of beaches, cheap booze, chicks and if time permits, old churches. Well, all this works out when you go out with friends on an unruly vacation or a sponsored company trip for all the hard and not so hard work you all have done.
What if you get stuck up with one of those rare times where you need to go to Goa with your family? It is most likely that you either will not go on the trip, or will completely ruin the trip with your family, or you will make the trip completely fruitless by visiting the common sites at Goa. How do I know? well I was in the same situation some days back and had to do something to make the vacation in Goa acceptable to us boozers and also the remaining 10 members of our family - that too in the rainy season.
My schedule for the Goa trip had to cover a lot of temples as some good places to visit. I had to do a lot of research and come up with a travel plan for each of the four days which I would like to share with all of you. I will be posting the travel program for each day as a separate travelogue post with a lot of travel tips to Goa.
Before I finish up, I would like to mention about visiting Goa during the monsoon. Goa is good during the dry season (summer and winter), but awesome during the rains. Some of the reasons are
It has been my first time to Goa in the monsoons and even though the weather ruined some of my photographic adventures, it did present me with a totally different view of Goa.
Enjoy!
The Photograchar
What if you get stuck up with one of those rare times where you need to go to Goa with your family? It is most likely that you either will not go on the trip, or will completely ruin the trip with your family, or you will make the trip completely fruitless by visiting the common sites at Goa. How do I know? well I was in the same situation some days back and had to do something to make the vacation in Goa acceptable to us boozers and also the remaining 10 members of our family - that too in the rainy season.
My schedule for the Goa trip had to cover a lot of temples as some good places to visit. I had to do a lot of research and come up with a travel plan for each of the four days which I would like to share with all of you. I will be posting the travel program for each day as a separate travelogue post with a lot of travel tips to Goa.
Before I finish up, I would like to mention about visiting Goa during the monsoon. Goa is good during the dry season (summer and winter), but awesome during the rains. Some of the reasons are
- Being on the western ghat section of India, Goa offers a lot of variety of trees, birds and animals. You can see a lot of "Clean Green" environment with rain clouds that transform the state into a different light.
- Being a non-peak season, accommodation, travel, food are readily available and are lot cheaper!
- You get the space to visit anything in Goa at your own time without rushing through the streams of tourists and shutter happy crowd.
- The time taken to travel from destination to destination is very less when compared to the peak season because of lower traffic on the roads - you can cover more destinations per day, or can have the luxury of spending more time per destination without hassle and rush.
- You get to see various festivals and feasts that traditional Goa has to offer during the monsoon.
- The whole atmosphere is highly relaxed and better suited for travel due to the absence of tropical heat.
It has been my first time to Goa in the monsoons and even though the weather ruined some of my photographic adventures, it did present me with a totally different view of Goa.
Enjoy!
The Photograchar
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