Josh driving Janaki on the jet ski
Plantation visitThe dog is in the water
Snakes are in the water!
Snakes are in the water!
Lunch at the plantation
Cold water being poured down my back - a welcome to my home ritual!
Josh patting the elephant
The dogs getting a bit of sun on the beach - the dogs are everywhere.
Check out the sign on Baga beach:
Cold water being poured down my back - a welcome to my home ritual!
Josh patting the elephant
The dogs getting a bit of sun on the beach - the dogs are everywhere.
Check out the sign on Baga beach:
Checkout the fishing boat!
Boat we went dolphin watching on
Oldest chruch in India
Old Goa
Church where St Francis of Assisi is buried
We went to Goa with Mayank and Janaki and met a friend of Mayank’s from Hong Kong – Jason and stayed for 3 days. It was even hotter in Goa than Vizag so we did a lot of sightseeing in an air coned car – which they charge more for! In fact it was too hot to spend much time at all at the beach and certainly no sunbathing! In the evenings we ate on the beach, one night around from our hotel and the other two nights on Baga beach sitting close to the water – so beautiful. It stayed really hot and humid at night also but with no sun shining it made the evenings really nice. During the days we did sightseeing with a hired driver – the driving over here is crazy, the cars weave all over the road and travel on whichever side of he road they choose and honk their horn, in fact I think the only road rule that exists is the bigger the horn the more right of way you have! When we asked the driver he said the horn is used all the time as it means ‘move out of the way I’m coming’ – only problem is everybody uses the horn and cars are everywhere! We saw a couple of Hindi temples whilst we where here and went to a plantation, where we learned about all the spices and their properties. The others took a jet ski out on the beach – I left them to it and fell asleep under the sun umbrella. We took an evening boat cruise – which was an experience in itself – the boat played Hindi disco music and the ‘crew’ kept getting everybody up to dance! It had lights, a live deejay and all the bells and whistles – very entertaining! Although not in the way we expected! We also took another boat ride during the day to dolphin watch – we did actually see a couple so we where quite pleased.
Everywhere you go there are Buffalo, cows and goats walking all over the road – Oh and dogs! Even in the middle of a busy road, everybody just drives around them! The animals are mostly owned by nobody and just eat and drink what they can find. There are also dogs all over the beach, when you are lying on the sun lounger they come underneath for shade.
Goa is a lot more western so Josh and I where pleased to have our first no curry meal here of prawns and fries! Also our only meal of meat – even if it was only fish! The food is beautiful here in India, although very hot – mostly too hot for me! We haven’t been brave enough to eat meat, but you don’t need to as the variety in the vegetarian curies are amazing.
On our last night in Goa we also ate on Baga beach then we found a night club to have a dance at before being driven home at speeds of up to 130km! Because by 2pm no cars where on the road – we made a trip that took us 45 min on the way out only 13 min on the way back!!!! This is the same taxi that once we got in wanted to charge us more (on top of the negotiated fee) for AC so we declined and wound the windows down, making our own AC!!!
Boat we went dolphin watching on
Oldest chruch in India
Old Goa
Church where St Francis of Assisi is buried
We went to Goa with Mayank and Janaki and met a friend of Mayank’s from Hong Kong – Jason and stayed for 3 days. It was even hotter in Goa than Vizag so we did a lot of sightseeing in an air coned car – which they charge more for! In fact it was too hot to spend much time at all at the beach and certainly no sunbathing! In the evenings we ate on the beach, one night around from our hotel and the other two nights on Baga beach sitting close to the water – so beautiful. It stayed really hot and humid at night also but with no sun shining it made the evenings really nice. During the days we did sightseeing with a hired driver – the driving over here is crazy, the cars weave all over the road and travel on whichever side of he road they choose and honk their horn, in fact I think the only road rule that exists is the bigger the horn the more right of way you have! When we asked the driver he said the horn is used all the time as it means ‘move out of the way I’m coming’ – only problem is everybody uses the horn and cars are everywhere! We saw a couple of Hindi temples whilst we where here and went to a plantation, where we learned about all the spices and their properties. The others took a jet ski out on the beach – I left them to it and fell asleep under the sun umbrella. We took an evening boat cruise – which was an experience in itself – the boat played Hindi disco music and the ‘crew’ kept getting everybody up to dance! It had lights, a live deejay and all the bells and whistles – very entertaining! Although not in the way we expected! We also took another boat ride during the day to dolphin watch – we did actually see a couple so we where quite pleased.
Everywhere you go there are Buffalo, cows and goats walking all over the road – Oh and dogs! Even in the middle of a busy road, everybody just drives around them! The animals are mostly owned by nobody and just eat and drink what they can find. There are also dogs all over the beach, when you are lying on the sun lounger they come underneath for shade.
Goa is a lot more western so Josh and I where pleased to have our first no curry meal here of prawns and fries! Also our only meal of meat – even if it was only fish! The food is beautiful here in India, although very hot – mostly too hot for me! We haven’t been brave enough to eat meat, but you don’t need to as the variety in the vegetarian curies are amazing.
On our last night in Goa we also ate on Baga beach then we found a night club to have a dance at before being driven home at speeds of up to 130km! Because by 2pm no cars where on the road – we made a trip that took us 45 min on the way out only 13 min on the way back!!!! This is the same taxi that once we got in wanted to charge us more (on top of the negotiated fee) for AC so we declined and wound the windows down, making our own AC!!! 
