Goa Calling!

Tripoto
8th Nov 2019
Photo of Goa Calling! by Yasaswini

Finally the Goa trip had started!

This was my second time visiting Goa and this was not really a planned one and yet finally Goa was ON 😍

We took a bus to reach Goa from Hyderabad which was like an overnight journey that costed us around 2k including taxes and flight to go back which was around Rs 2800 incl taxes.

This was the place where we had booked our stay for 4 nights and pretty close to candolim beach. I would say this is one of the best places to stay at with the whole party theme which included the trippy lights and sound system too.

The room was very clean and spacious enough with an attached balcony. This place had a really cool swimming pool and even zaccuzi bath with an attached restaurant as well and I would say that the food was tasty as well even though it was on the pricy side

It costed us around Rs 4100 per night.

We actually rented out a Vespa just opposite to the hotel we were staying at for Rs 400 per day.

Sinq pool

Photo of SinQ Party hotel, opposite Taj Holiday village, Sinquerim, Candolim, Goa, India by Yasaswini

Sinq greenery

Photo of SinQ Party hotel, opposite Taj Holiday village, Sinquerim, Candolim, Goa, India by Yasaswini
Day 1

So we visited Baga in the afternoon. Because of the crowd, it was not one of my favorites though it had really good food options, music, shopping etc. And beach is always a beach 🀩

I really liked this shack, St. Anthony's. It had live music, hookah as well

This was our stop for lunch and spent the afternoon there chilling

St. Anthony's

Photo of Baga Beach, Goa by Yasaswini

Baga

Photo of Baga Beach, Goa by Yasaswini

So this is the "Dil chahta hai" fort and one of my favorite sunset view points.

We reached to this place by evening and enjoyed the beach view and the sunset from here. I would say this was one of the beautiful sunsets I had ever seen

So obviously when something is really that good, pictures are  must coz its Goa and you gotta click some pictures to relive the vibe after a while 😎

You will have to walk quite a bit to the fort and there were stalls available here as well for snacks and street shopping.

Dream catchers and souvenirs are my thing which I can't stop buying wherever I go

Chapora & Anchor

Photo of Chapora Fort, Goa by Yasaswini

End of the Sunset at chapora

Photo of Chapora Fort, Goa by Yasaswini

Start of the sunset at chapora

Photo of Chapora Fort, Goa by Yasaswini

I enjoyed the vibe at this place which was really cool and located at Anjuna beach. Those neon lights, trance music was something that I really enjoyed in here

And again, wherever I go, my love for dream catchers lead me to roam around few more stalls

This was all about Day 1 in Goa ❀️

Curlies Indoors

Photo of Curlies Beach Shack, near Flea Market, Monteiro Vaddo, Anjuna, Goa, India by Yasaswini

Curlies Outdoors

Photo of Curlies Beach Shack, near Flea Market, Monteiro Vaddo, Anjuna, Goa, India by Yasaswini

Curlies Candle light

Photo of Curlies Beach Shack, near Flea Market, Monteiro Vaddo, Anjuna, Goa, India by Yasaswini
Day 2

I would say this was one of the lovely brunches I had in Goa. This is a very classy and beautiful place to head over to. But to get the right seats with good view, you may have to call up and reserve the same

This is a Greek restaurant but a little bit on the expensive side. You must try grilled fish. It's freakishly amazing  ❀️

Greenery at thalassa

Photo of Thalassa, Vaddy, Siolim, Goa, India by Yasaswini

Fav view from thalassa

Photo of Thalassa, Vaddy, Siolim, Goa, India by Yasaswini

Grilled fish at thalassa

Photo of Thalassa, Vaddy, Siolim, Goa, India by Yasaswini

We headed over to Arambol post noon. This beach was peaceful than the rest. So chilling at the beach was the best part. We played for sometime, spent some quality time and returned to our stay as the next one is going to be a little bit more exciting for me 😁

How would I miss the sunset? Of course not! So yeah enjoyed the best part of the day, THE SUNSET before we left this place

In any beach, we can either pay for the beach beds/chairs on hourly basis or if we actually order food in the shacks there, that is taken care by default.

Chilling at Arambol

Photo of Arambol, Goa, India by Yasaswini

Party time!! Yayy!

This was one of the best parties I had ever been to. It was everything I would want in a party. Chilling, dancing, all that you need and crazy vibe. This is one hell of a party and extremely insane πŸ’ƒ

We stayed here until 3 am atleast and it's definitely something I would love to do it all over again!

This was my favorite day of the trip ❀️

As we are staying at the hotel itself, we didn't have to pay extra money for the entry but there were passes available for the outsiders

Next day morning πŸ˜’ Here comes the part you might feel you should have partied a little less 🀦

Sinq

Photo of Sinq Night Club, Candolim, Goa, India by Yasaswini
Day 3

So we basically felt to take this day a little slow and headed over to lunch to a nearby beach which was candolim. Unfortunately, there were no shacks open at all at that point of time as in end of Nov due to the license thing and all.

Yeah we still can play in the beach, enjoy the sea breeze or sun bathe but we were super hungry and headed over to calangute beach.

This was one of the beaches I had spent almost all the time in my previous trip

I kind of like this beach out of all the others I had been to as it was cleaner than other beaches, with shacks and water sports too.

We spent sometime here and headed back to the hotel as we were not really in a great shape and definitely needed to rest

Rest of the evening was calming and we actually enjoyed the vibe of the hotel we were staying at and the ambience of it as we were not really in a rush to go visit some other place.

Also we had been to this cute little place nearby called southl for dinner and vibe around there was refreshing.

So I would say this day actually turned out better than expected 😊

Day 4

This was the last day in Goa and thought to visit old goa as I always had a thing for the architecture and I have heard a lot about old Goa.

So on the way to old goa, we figured we can go watch the dolphins and there's a beach nearby so we had decided to see how the experience is gonna be as this was my first time watching dolphins.

It's again like a combo where they will cover like 5 places and was charged Rs 300 per person. I personally don't find watching something from far away exciting at all so I was only interested  about watching the dolphins.

We got to see couple of them and again my expectations were too high like we see in the movies 🀭 so I didn't feel this particular boat ride great and we headed over to Old Goa

Coco

Photo of Coco Beach, Goa, Nerul, Goa, India by Yasaswini

We visited this church which is famous in Goa and spent some time there. There was also St.Francis church infront of this. I personally like the places which are known for their architecture and so this was the part which I liked about it.

Basilica of bom jesus

Photo of Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa Road, Bainguinim, Goa, India by Yasaswini

Interior of basilica of bom jesus

Photo of Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa Road, Bainguinim, Goa, India by Yasaswini

At Basilica of bom jesus

Photo of Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa Road, Bainguinim, Goa, India by Yasaswini

We had also been to St Augustine. This basically has only one tower left and is one of the oldest in Goa.

St. Augustine tower

Photo of St. Augustine Tower, Goa Velha, Goa, India by Yasaswini

This church was so relaxing with less crowded and very very peaceful. Since I had done most of my schooling in a convent, I always had a thing for Roman Catholic churches. I liked the vibe around here, the peaceful state of mind and everything about it.

I liked this church out of all the other ones we had visited and yeah I would definitely love to visit this church again. Probably all this was because of the nostalgia and I kind of missed my school days.

We definitely have to follow the dress code to enter this church

Se cathedral

Photo of Se Cathedral, Velha, Goa, India by Yasaswini

Interior of se cathedral

Photo of Se Cathedral, Velha, Goa, India by Yasaswini

This one is where Aashiqui 2 was shot at. The exterior of the church is in portugese style with everything in white and the interior is quite simple and peaceful

This also has a dress code to follow

Aashiqui 2 church

Photo of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church, Rua EmΓ­dio Garcia, Altinho, Panaji, Goa, India by Yasaswini

Yeah this one,  I heard a lot about how beautiful the sunsets can be from here and decided to visit the place. Some renovation was happening at the time and we really couldn't go the view point. That was a little disappointing but then the sunset is always beautiful regardless of the place 😍

Amidst the water and the rocks, sunset was amazing and i enjoyed it so I would say this turned out great as well

We actually planned to go to some casino as we don't have any plans for the night but finally ended up resting as we had to fly back really early the next day. We had to spend 1200 bucks to reach to the airport as it was an early flight.

So yeah this was how my four day trip to Goa had been. I have included most of the expenses that we spent in the trip. Rest of them like food,alcohol, shopping & petrol are subjective and depends totally on the individual. I hope this information helps someone to plan a trip to Goa.

While writing this blog, I felt that I had  visited a lot of places and this must have been exhausting at the time but trust me...No, not at all. It was super fun and amazing.

And now I'm ready to visit Goa again 😍
Obviously who wouldn't? πŸ˜›

Dona paula

Photo of Dona Paula, Goa, India by Yasaswini