GoaThis guide to Goa examines India's best-known resort region. It features a colour introductory section, including photographs of the regions highlights, from enjoying the sun on Palolem Beach to browsing at Anjuna flea market. The basics section provides all the information you need to prepare your trip, including visas, inoculations, flights, insurance and safety advice. The main heart of the guide includes evocative accounts of every beach in the state, plus the region's temples, markets and wildlife sanctuaries from Panjim to Galjibag. There are also lively and reliable reviews of the best places to stay, eat, drink and party. Coverage has also been given to sights in the neighbouring state of Karnataka and the transport hub of Mumbai. Thorough background articles cover Goa's history, religion and environment furthering the reader's understanding of the region. |
Contents
Talaulim | 86 |
Map and chapter list | 100 |
128 | 103 |
Terekol | 166 |
B Basics | 217 |
لا | 279 |
Read Contexts to get a deeper | 282 |
Language | 297 |
The language section gives useful | 339 |
Help us update | 357 |
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accommodation Aguada Airlines airport Anjuna Arambol arrive Baga Bank bazaar Beach Resort beachfront Benaulim budget building bus stand buses café Calangute Canacona Candolim carved Casa CENTRAL GOA centre century Chandor Chapora Chaudi Christian church coast coastal coconut Colaba colonial Colva couple crossroads daily deity dishes drinking east fish five-star flea market floor garden Ghats Goa's Goan Gokarn guesthouse Hampi head hill Hindu huge Indian Kadamba Konkan Railway Konkani lane laterite main road Mandovi Mapusa Marg Margao Mormugao Mumbai Muslim Nariman nearby NORTH GOA offer Old Goa opposite palm Palolem Panjim PANJIM AND CENTRAL Pernem Ponda Portuguese Rama restaurant river rooms Salcete Sanctuary seafood season shacks Shiva Shri shrine side Siolim SOUTH GOA square taluka taxi temple terrace there's Tito's tourist town trees Vagator Vasco da Gama verandahs village visitors Waddo Zuari