The Goa Trip (Part I)

We were planning for long, repeating the same old sequence of serious talking for a day and dropping it thereafter and taking up the matter again after a few weeks. In fact, we had talked and forgot about it so many times that nobody believed we were actually going to Goa until the Toyota Qualis picked us up at seven in the evening on 30th December.

We were eight odd souls in total, all working in the same group. We traveled all night to reach Goa at eleven in the morning. We lost a good one hour on our way because of a leaked tire. We spent that hour in a teashop placed in an otherwise deserted place surrounded by total darkness. The shop was playing a song of the movie ‘Nagin’ adding to its eerie atmosphere.

We got in a hotel near Miramar Beach. A nice bath, a good one-hour rest and a pathetic lunch in the same hotel are all that happened before we hit the road again. We went to the Miramar beach first. However, there wasn’t much in there and decided to go to the Calangute beach. Before even reaching the shore of the sea we were stumped by the sea of girls, Indian and foreign, floating all around us. That was fabulous!!

The experience in the beach, I think, was the best part of the tour. We had a ride on the water scooter, enjoyed a long bath in the waves and of course, relished the beauty both of the nature and the people. After having a good time of a couple of hours, we decided to move on.



In front of the hotel





Miramar Beach





Calangute Beach