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Introduction :
For most of the people heading towards Goa, it is one long
beach. But once they are there they realize this folly of
them. Goa is a state though a small one and there is a large
number of famous beaches, many towns and a good network of
roads. It is a state of seven rivers and their estuaries,
there are hills with lush green vegetation, and most of the
tourists are needed to cover large distances to move from
one place to other. Goa has a total coastline of 125 km and
that makes people believe that it is a long big beach
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Beaches of
Goa are much ahead of other beaches in India in terms of
popularity and the facilities that are available here. The
beaches here have been accepted as a matter of life, there
are exotic cuisine backing the pleasure of have on sun and
sand, and water sports facilities that include from water
scooters to water gliding. To add on you can shake your legs
for some time with a glass of feni and beer, engaged in
shopping on the beachside, or have midnight bonfire on the
beach.
There are some more aspects of Goa beaches that attract
tourists every year. Whatsoever times you have visited these
beaches they tend to change their look and get new designs
every new season. These beaches refurbish themselves every
new season and enhance the excitement of visitors who are
never tired of appreciating Goa. Out of 125 km of coastline
the beaches of Goa cover not less than 83 km and there is
one for you also waiting to be explored. Go and find it!
Beaches By The Miles :
The Aguada Bay (parts of which are known as Caranzalem Bay
and Sinquerim Bay) is formed by two promontories: Cabo and
Aguada.
Geomorphologies theorize that the Goan hills on the eastern
side succumbed to the effects of erosion and fractured,
while those on the western side stayed more or less stable.
Mythologists and minstrels have more exciting stories about
the promontories, which they believe were once the celestial
playgrounds of voluptuous gods.
Between science and myth stands a glorious reality - 40
lovely beaches, most of them pollution free, though not all
of them as safe as swimmers would wish. The most developed
beach segment is the Calangute - Baga - Anjuna belt in the
Bardesh subdivision north of Panaji.
The north Goa beaches in Pernem subdivision are delightfully
primitive and untouched: Keri beach (with Tiracol and an
ancient Portuguese fort on the other bank); Arambol (also
known as Harmal); Mandrem (a toddy tappers' and palm
distillers' hamlet with two little beaches: Lemos and Asvem)
and Morji. The local people are friendly and un-interfering,
the markets fairly well stocked and the public
transportation system reasonably efficient. By way of
accommodation there are somewhat Spartan cottages and
thatched huts.
The Chapora river demarcates
the Bardesh subdivision, the home ground of several beaches:
Chapora, Anjuna, Baga, Calangute, Candolim, Sinquerim and an
inner beach, Quegdevelim, one of the few rocky beaches in
Goa and also a shell collectors haven.
Off the Mandovi estuary, in the Tiswadi subdivision, there
are little beaches which are both tranquil and
well-connected.
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