Goa India and Places to Visit.

Some of the towns, a few beaches and places easily visited while in Goa plus some wildlife and boat pictures.

Bogmalo Beach at Goa.

This fairly small Goan beach is located in a tree-lined cove and is around 4kms off the Vasco da Gama - Margao main road (Vasco da Gama is around 8kms North). Goa's airport is close by but aircraft noise does not seem to be any problem/annoyance. Sat in a sort of cove, Bogmalo Beach is a really nice beach to use with quite a lot of space and several restaurants around to get a beer or some food.
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Vasco da Gama - Goa.

Vasco is the nearest town of any size to Bogmalo - it's a busy bustling working town with quite large fish and fruit markets as well as a really enclosed but huge general market area. This is actually like a bustling maze. In reality there is not a great deal to see and photograph in the way of nice buildings etc. - also there do not appear to be any restaurants that look appealing to go into.

Vasco da Gama has quite an extensive fishing fleet and boat building/ repair area located in and around the harbour. The main bus station is located just a little way out on the town's western side however local buses start from the centre. You can also get railway connections into most of India from here. It certainly is not difficult to see the connection with Portugal - there are still many old houses often now in a poor state in the area which originated from the Portuguese era.

Panaji in Goa.

Panaji is Goa's State Capital City and where all the "governing" takes place - the city easily has the best shops in the area (probably in all of Goa). These cater for whether you want well made brand goods or the cheaper copies - and there are of course extensive markets where you can buy fish, fruit and general goods. The city is located on the south bank of the Mandovi River and one of the interesting things is watching the heavy but rusty ore carriers doing the trips up and down the river to meet up with and unload into heavier cargo ships anchored further out in Aguada Bay.

There is plenty of other river activity too - from fishing boats wandering about to the small and not very safe looking cross river ferries. Panaji is a very busy city - buses, lorries, taxis, cars and motorcycles all racing about the roads with their drivers hooting and often shouting in the chaos as they more or less just fail to hit each other (or mow down the many pedestrians) - which is normal Goan driving of course. Amazingly or perhaps not so as this is India, there are often cows wandering about the main streets as well. They seem quite oblivious and probably quite indifferent to the traffic whizzing round as the vehicles swerve around and blast them with car-horns of course.

These photos are from the popular Goa holiday area of Margao.

Goa Beaches - these Goan beaches are located slightly south of Margao (Varca beach).

From the southern side of Bogmalo Bay/Hollant Beach the Goan beach goes in quite a straight line for many kilometres - this is a continual jungle lined quite white sandy beach with very little shade available and often little sign of human life for considerable distances at times. Further south of Margao around Varca Beach and quite spread out there are several huge hotel complexes now built - these are often within beautiful landscaped gardens and have all the facilities you could ask for - but it all comes at quite a hefty price of course.

India - Goa Boats and Goa Trains Photos.

Pictures of just a few of the various Indian Birds and Animals spotted whilst in Goa.