A typical Goan beach is booming with shacks, tourists, music, party, small vendors, stall selling memoirs and clothing etc. But, Galgibaga Beach in Cancona, south Goa, defies these preconceptions. The uniqueness of this beach lies in its quietude, unlike most beaches. Interestingly, you wont a single shack on this beach, and there relatively mot many tourists vising it. There are just a few restaurants located at a little distance from the soft sands.
This is beach is also famous for being the southern turtle nestling site, Morjim beach being the northern one. If you visit the beach between the months of December and February, you may be lucky to see some turtle eggs. But, it is prohibited to touch them. As for the rest of the year, you may be lucky to see Olive Ridley turtles sunbathing or crawling about the beach.
The sea too is safe ffor swimming, thought it is advised not to venture too far out and the undercurrent could be strong. Moreover, there are lifeguards to ensure safety of the people.
This beach is quite an ideal one for a private picnic. Not that the whole beach is just to yourself, but the number of visitors there are relatively minimum. Also trees lining the beach provide shade to set up your tents and enjoy a relaxing siesta, after a warm swim in the waters. All you got to do is carry your food, drinks, towel, hammock (if you like), summing suit, sun screen, shades etc., set out for a picnic at this beach and leave the rest upto nature magic! If your ideal beach day-out is spend it in quietude, enjoy the voices of nature, meditate on the vastness of the horizon, observe the dance of the waves, then this is the beach for you!
Ancestral Goa
Want to see Goa in a nutshell? Take time off for a trip to Ancestral Goa in the sleepy town of Loutolim in South Goa.
The founders of Ancestral Goa fashioned the place, as an all-you-could-have-seen of Goa of the past, within a few hundred paces, through a series of motifs and symbolic re-creations of lifestyles and customs which existed in the glorious Goa of the past.
Ancestral Goa’s aim was to preserve ancient Goa’s culture, art and environment for posterity. Spread over several acres, Ancestral Goa impresses you right from the time you are ushered into the model village with the performance of the traditional arti.
Littered with precious antiques, artefacts, recreated scenes, mannequins, decorative palanquins, the visitors cannot miss out on the mighty muscled Parshuram, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who mythology has it, carved out Goa from the ocean by shooting an arrow.
Alongside, there is also a museum of crosses, a collection of thousands of crosses collected by the founder of Ancestral Goa Maendra Alvares, over the last several years.
Started in the 1990s, Ancestral Goa also has one of the biggest laterite statues of Sant Mirabai with her tambori stretching up to 15 metres.
Ancestral Goa
Big Foot, Loutolim, Goa, India.
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