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Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2011

Goa, the 'Mallorca' of India

Soon it will be New Year, Goa reacts on that with severely overprices hostels. Anyway,  there is not much we can do about that so we take it as it is and check out this very unusual part of India.
Goa is located on the West side of the country, just at the beach. Low cost carriers from Europe fly on and off, bringing mainly British and German package tourists. THEIR beach is kind of clean, people are nice and chase off the local Indians. The part of the beach the LOCALS are going is terrible. Burning garbage on the beach, eating big meals and leaving the rests, half filled plates and all that for the rats and cockroaches. 
Peeing on the beach is normal too.   

Nice time at the beach...

Interesting: drying fish on the beach

Shark on the menu is normal here.


We moved around on busses and tuk-tuks. Here a ferry service we took.


What is good about so many tourists? The lovely food! After over 2 weeks in India we were ready for some 'non-curry' meals :-)
And Goa does everything for the tourist money. Even the Holy Cow is chopped up here and served and steaks!!


We checked out Goa's past, a Portugese fort,    

and a Portugese lighthouse.


Some people have got it all in Goa, here a HUGE luxurious house just at the ocean side.

On our way direction Mumbai  (Bombay), the views were more like the above...

Watching the passing trains was interesting, the doors stay open and people are standing in the door openings.  

Also on the quai, people are sitting around with their 'luggage'.

Wherever they go and whatever they are doing, there are SOOOO many people in this country.

Some days in Goa was ok, it has little to do with India though, but it gave us a chance to hang out a bit. Our room was big and comfortable and also here the fruits are delicious. We checked out an animation design course, which we might come back for.... maybe....

Bombay, here we come....

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