Week in Goa

by Yash Patkar (India)

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It was 27th October finally, we packed our bags and got set with our trip. We had our bus direct from Mumbai to Goa. We reached our destination probably in the afternoon on the 28th. We rented a car for about 6 days and drove towards our hotel which we booked weeks before arrival. Driving in Goa is a bit of hustle because of the narrow roads and no proper traffic control. We reached our hotel and damn….it was so awesome. There was a beautiful lake beside our hotel and the sunsets were so pretty that we never thought of leaving our room. By the time we emptied our bags, took showers it was already dark. So we planned to go to a nearby beach which was about 7 to 8 km away from the hotel. The beach was Morjim and it was one of the most mesmerizing beaches I've ever been on. We didn't get to experience the full beauty of the beach cause it was pretty dark by the time we got there but we once again visited that beach actually for quite a few times there and it became one of our most favorite spots but more on that later. We came back from the beach and in between held for our dinner at a wonderful restaurant and had to our fullest and headed to our hotel and went straight up to the bed. The next day we had our breakfast and hopped into the car and went to a church and it wasn't just any church it was one of the most attractive churches in Goa. It was the saint Francis Xavier's church. It was such an experience to be there and get into the culture. There were various sculptures of different saints and paintings and other stuff. We came back to our hotel and decided to go to the beach which was Vagator. Vagator is one of the most widespread beaches across Goa cause of music festivities. 30th October, we had one of the craziest road trips ever, we went on a 90km ride each way to South Goa or almost at Karnataka. We went to Palolem beach and hands down the most beautiful beach I've ever seen. Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to swim cause there were tons of jellyfish, but we did a hike on a beautiful island which wasn't an island cause of low tide. The view from the top was so mesmerizing and heavenly that we could never forget. On 31st we visited a local beach which wasn't crowded we got out in the water had fun but mainly that day was scheduled just to click pictures and to make videos. We didn't exactly do anything different than just roaming around in the car exploring and stopping in between to take pictures. On 1st I was at the hotel for about the entire day cause I got sick. So my friends went to some beach and in the evening we went to Morjim beach just to chill and also I was bored staying in the hotel all day. 2nd October we packed our bags and checked out from the hotel and went off to give back our rental car. But before that, we went to Bagha beach just for the sake of it, that its the most popular beach in Goa.