Delhi to Goa trip - Blogabond

Started off in Delhi leaving the hotel at 11.30am. Tracey not feeling too hot today as the cold really starts to kick in. Our flight was 1 1/2 hours delayed! We had a 2 hour journey to get to our accomodation in Palolem beach South Goa. When we arrived at our booked accomodation the guy looking after the properties told our taxi driver they were full!! Not amused after about 9 hours travelling!!
James with his expert negotiation skills (as well as extreme patience with me as I was unwell and very stroppy!) Managed to get another little hut. This one looked much better as it was right on the beach.
We had dinner at the hut restaurant - Red Snapper and chips - delicious!!
We then retired to bed as we were both shattered!

Feb 20
I (James) got up and walked straight to the travel agent in town to sort out the mess with our booked accomadation last night and to get our money back. I had set off at 9am and the walk had taken 20mins along the beach by the time I got there I was soaked through, man this place is hot.
I managed to get all the money back after speaking to umpteen people and on phone to Dehli office for ages.

We spent the rest of the day chilling on the beach and wondering around the local area.

The beach is gorgeous palm tree lined sand and about a half of a mile long. The sea is very warm but not very clear a touch green in colour but still very inviting

My drink of choice here is a large bottle (650ml or 2 standard 330ml bottles e.g bud) of Kingfisher (lager) which costs a bargain price of 30-50 rupees (83 rupees to the pound) and thats in the resturaunts - quality.

We finished the day by going to see a live band on the beach. Their music of choice was r&b, regga and hip hop (Indian style). Kingfisher a whopping 80rs here!

Sunset over beach in Goa

Feb 21
First thing in the morning we had to catch a boat which we had organised to pick us up. We had about a 30 second walk across the beach to the boat. We were going dolphin watching!
We got out of the bay to find 4 or 5 other little boats doing the same. A fishing boat was going past towing its nets followed by about 5-6 dolphins then these dolphin spotting boats so we joined in the chase.
Our boat drivers took us to butterfly beach but this was not as good as following the dolphins so we turned straight back around.

We had breakie followed by a session of dipping in the sea and sun bathing.

As we are trying to get close to local life it only seemed right if we then had a siesta for a couple of hours!!

Dinner was set on the beach and had a seafood sizzler!!

Feb 22
Had quite a Lazy start to the day, Trace did a bit of washing!
Had a leisurely swim and did a bit of gentle sunbathing. The entertainment on the beach today was a little girl doing a tight rope walk on a rope, her mum had set up using 4 sticks and 2 tent pegs, rope 8ft off the ground. Going up and down to the beat of her mum playing the drums!!

Went for a short walk into the main part of the village and on the way back stopped off at a bar that actually sold Malibu!! Listening to house music and drinking in the sun whiled away the afternoon.

When the sun was setting James swam out to a rock and I took a photo of him holding the sun!!

James balancing the sun on his head!

Both of us shared a seafood platter - with jumbo prawns (I mean jumbo!), red snapper and king fish - All for less than a tenner for 2 people!! Cocktails were drank in the moon light. What a good day!!

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James & Tracey on February 19, 2007 from Goa, India

from the travel blog: James & Tracey World Tour

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Hey guys!

Glad you made it to Goa - finally! Where are you staying there - as we still want to have a few nights in Palolem?

Looking forward to catching you in NZ - but until then, have a fab time!!

Mumbai is hot!!

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megankevin on February 21, 2007

lets have a piccie of those linen trousers dude

written by Iamthedaddy on February 22, 2007

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