Goa is divided into North and South. The southern part of the state differs significantly from the north. The southern coast is much varied and picturesque. There are long and wide beaches, white sand and stretched out along the entire coast of palm groves. This area is considered more respectable. North, in turn, is famous for the atmosphere of a hypnotic dance of ecstasy.
South Goa
Part of the state, which is below the river Zouari. This is the least populated part of the state where lie the vast deserted beaches, there are comfortable hotels and tranquil atmosphere. Hotels 
located along the sea front, usually on the first line, and surrounded the houses of local residents. There are virtually no discos, relatively few restaurants (except hotel), only a few civilized shopping centers. Recreational areas and promenades are absent. Entertainment, with rare exceptions, no - Indian hotels are just beginning to learn the art of animation, and only in some hotels in the evenings there was entertainment (usually a fee). The main occupation in South Goa - relax on the beach and SPA procedures, this is a great place for family holidays, many hotels have kids' clubs and menus. In the 5 * hotels have tennis courts and golf, and water sports. In addition, water sports offered and the municipal beaches. Huge and broad beaches - the main riches of South Goa. Low tides are small, the water not far away and long, but if the leaves - on the beach from a curious crab burrows are selected, which you can touch it. On the beach spend the whole day - there sunbathing, swimming, cycling, doing shopping, dine at the many cafes and just go for a walk: a local beach and have a local mall.
North Goa
This is the real Goa, from where the resort started. Popular with young and enthusiastic "party people", as well as for tourists who do not like to miss. Is a long string of resort towns and beaches, stretching along the coast. The southern part of north Goa (Bugs below) is populated mostly by organized tourists. Popular beaches are crowded. Numerous cafes, standing on the sand, have toilets, good menu with "fashionable" drinks and seafood, and the evening turned into a disco. At the water's edge - the ranks of paid loungers. Along the coast stretches a busy street filled with shops and cafes. There are no problems with European cuisine, an espresso and pizza, lots of nightclubs and discos. Hotels, with rare exceptions, small and easier than in South Goa. Many private villas and guesthouses. Popular means of transportation - the motorcycle or moped. Prices are lower than in the South, the situation more democratic. The upper part of the North Goa (Anjuna, Vagator, Chapora, etc) - barony liberated youth. There is a remote, wild beaches, where to get a taxi or motorcycle, rented a lot of cheap guesthouse. In the north of Goa live special "Goa People" (not Indians), which meets here in the winter - those who wait out bad weather in Europe, who "hang" from the responsibilities at home, who just relax. This tradition started by hippies, who found it a heavenly place after the accession of Goa to India. Endless beaches, warm, cheap, relaxed. It is in these circumstances was born the famous music "Goa trance" and "psychedelic." Sgodnya lives in Goa is not the first generation of Europeans. Many of them have business here - hotels, restaurants, souvenirs, some do, sew clothes and shoes, many people simply take a break from boring Europe. In recent years, and representatives of the CIS (as a rule, Russians) who are not only relaxing but also doing business - open discos and restaurants, they buy houses and small hotels.
Palolo
Palolo beach with white sand and overlooking a blue bay between two headlands in the shape of a crescent - the most beautiful in South Goa. Just a few years ago there was a deserted paradise beach and rested here only hippies. Today it is a pretty town with hotels, interesting shops and restaurants. Especially attractive walks on motorboats with dolphin watching at sunrise and sunset. An ideal place for a quiet holiday.
Mobor
Very beautiful and clean beach, located in a place where the river flows into the lagoon Sal in Betula. An idyllic place against the backdrop of mountains and picturesque fishing villages. On the river a lot of wonderful islands around them in large numbers are found oysters. It is here that is a luxury hotel Leela Kempinski.
Kavelossim Shaded white sand beach bordered by palm grove. One of the most prevlekatelnyh features a beach - the opportunity to observe the dolphins, which are here very much. For this there are to rent a boat and the boat and they can swim far out to sea to watch dolphins. If you're lucky, you can even see them from shore. The beach is popular among Indian celebrities. Here are the golf course, luxury resorts, excellent restaurants with seafood. On a beautiful ploschali is ornamented church of the Holy Cross.
Cooking
Long, beautiful and clean beach with beautiful palm groves. Quiet and relaxing atmosphere. As in Kavelossime, here you can take a boat to see dolphins.
Benaulim
There are beautiful beaches and picturesque villas. The sea in this place is very calm and safe for swimming. The village of Benaulim is located between the River Sal and the Arabian Sea. It is a quiet, shady place with mansions and country roads truly exudes the true spirit of Goa. Restaurants are famous for seafood. According to legend, Parasurama, the sixth incarnation of Vishnu, shot an arrow that landed in this place (Benvali - arrow). On the hill stands the church of St. John the Divine (1596) with a beautiful altar and a carved chair, and images of the lamb of the Apocalypse and St. Christopher. In this church was baptized Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon, declared afterwards, who was born in Benaulime
Kolva
Kolva - a bustling town and one of the most famous and popular beaches in Southern Goa. Near the beach - the mass of shops and restaurants with seafood and evening programs. On the beach you can see the fishermen in the morning facing the sea. Here is the church of Our Lady of Mercy, with a beautiful baroque interior and known to have miraculous healing power of the statue of baby Jesus. In September Kolva notes "Famu" festival dedicated to the baby Jesus. At this time the church is arranged around a festive fair.
Madzhorda
Beautiful beach with lots of coconut palms and fruit trees. Local people grow rice here, and melons. Nice place to relax.
Arrosim
Another small but very beautiful beach. Its main advantage in the poorly attended. Arrosim allows you to enjoy the beauty of nature in almost complete isolation.
Betalbatim
Beach surrounded by pine trees, is located 2 km from the major-domo. The beach has a couple of restaurants, guesthouse. Near the Church of St. Thomas.
Bogmalo
Another beautiful beach. 400 meters. Bogmalo known surfers, since there good waves. Also here you can swim with scuba diving, recently opened a diving school here. The beach is popular among water sports enthusiasts.
Siridao
Small, secluded beach near Panaji, strewn with beautiful seashells
Vaingvinim
Small and cozy bay rimmed azure waters of the river Zouari and the Arabian Sea. The beach has the potential for sailing, windsurfing, water skiing, hang gliding and scuba diving. This place was idyllic flourishing orchard Jesuits who settled here in the late 16 th century. Near the middle of tall trees, shrubs and flowers was a thriving farm. On the shore in abundance growing coconuts, mangoes, cashews, oranges, lemons, sweet limes, guava, papaya, etc.
Bambolim
Beautiful beach stretching 3 km in length, with palm trees, which grow almost at the water
Dona Paula
Small and cozy beach in the heart of Goa for fans of quiet rest near the capital of Goa, Panaji. Name your beach received by the legend of Dona Paula de Menezes, daughter of viceroy in Goa, the Portuguese king, who preferred to be dumped off a cliff, but has not given out of love for local fisherman, Gaspar Diaz
Miramar
Near the beach, Dona Paula, which merged the Arabian Sea and Mandvi River, under the shade of palm trees, a 3-km from Panaji is the beach of Miramar or Gaspar Dias. Translated from the Portuguese Miramar means - "looking at the sea." Due to its location and beautiful landscape, this beach is just made for an evening stroll.
Sinker
The southernmost beach of North Goa is famous for its luxurious resorts. Nearby is a Portuguese Fort Aguada, built in 1612 and defended the entrance to the mouth of the river Mandovi. At the top of the hill are a lighthouse and St. Lawrence Church.
Coco
At 800 meters from Fort Aguada is a small beach Coco beach. This is a small cove, hidden among the rocks. There are no waves, the perfect place for those who can not swim. At 100 meters from the beach, no water comes up to his chest.
Candolim
One of the most luxurious, one might even say "secular" beaches of Goa, home to wealthy Europeans and residents of metropolitan Indian cities. The beach attracts its respectability and a more relaxed, compared with Calangute beach, the atmosphere. Many admire the beauty and tranquility of the beach Candolim, a pond with red lilies and wonderful dragonflies. On the road from Calangute to Candolim is a chapel of St. Anthony. Local landmark - has long been stranded or grounded tanker Moscow-211 (River Princess), 200 meters from the shore. A piece of the beach near Donna Florina Beach Resort is focused on people engaged in various spiritual practices. The main contingent - the followers of Osho Rajneesh, who come from the nearby city of Pune from Goa, where the central ashram of Osho. Has become a tradition, something that every year in late January to mid-February there is an alternative Osho festival, involving the followers of Rajneesh, dissatisfied with the commercialization of the central ashram in Pune.
Calangute
Calangute Beach, a fairly populated area tourism industry, people here are much higher than in Bagh. In 1960, 70hh years in Calangute from everywhere gathered hippies. All the sand strip beach full of restaurants, stalls with trinkets, bars like Peter `s bar, Angela P. Fernandes, and Bob` s Inn and nightclubs. This beach is not the most best, and perhaps, many will consider it too crowded and noisy. One of the most popular tourist destinations of European tourists.
Baga
Charming, beautiful and harmonious combination of land and sea. This is a popular place for British tourists. Baga is famous for its nightlife. Here is one of the most famous "dance floor" in Goa Tito's. Affects a large number of cafes, bars and restaurants with open verandas, offering a wide range of dishes, and here will prepare you for real "espresso." Write quality - excellent, and the prices - reasonable. Baga (Baga) is a 30 minute walk from Anjuna. This is the most attractive and picturesque beach strip Sinker (Sinquerim) - Baga. Shekov pile, a pile of deck chairs (they piled all the beach), lots of tourists. Most adults and older Englishmen. Traders here simply does not pass by. As well as Indians in the weekends. If you're a girl (whether alone or with a friend), to flee on Saturday and Sunday. Otherwise you risk to spend all the time on the beach, standing under the gun of flashbulbs, photographing all of the queue. Although if you are lucky with the choice of lounges, you can find a bodyguard in the face of staff sheka, which owns the beach lezhaki.Na Bugs freaks, hippies and other true goa people do not. Goa trance is not playing here, too. There is house and europop. The most famous place - Titos (Tito's) and is located next to the Mambo (Mambo). In these clubs, hanging out mostly Indians and lovers of the Hausa and Europop. Near them on the beach shack situated ZanziBar. At the weekend there exhibited by 4 huge speakers on each side and put the house. Basses give a radius of 100 meters. Generally Baga is famous for its nightlife. The same Titos open until 4 am. Many restaurants are open until the last customer. On the beach in one located sheki, which begin after sunset disco. There is also a lot of guest house and a simple room. On the way to the beach can be a good shopping, because shops here do not count. By the way among dogs beach is also popular. Breed variety. But all are equally friendly. Dogs are jumping on the waves, kids push them around and play with them. Full idilliya.Na beach are advised to visit Andrew's shack - great fresh pineapple juice, soup, seafood and fish. And everything else is delicious. Located at 50 meters down the beach to the right of Titos.
Anjuna
legendary place, a popular place for hippies, where in a palm grove and a nearby vacant lot to the beach on Wednesdays arranged Flea Market - flea market. Here you can buy Tibetan silver jewelry, leather belts, sarees, Chillum, fashionable European clothes as well as any Indian bullshit. Anjuna is the capital of Goa trance, here at Bamboo Valley played himself Goa Gil. Several times a week in the coastal clubs, bars Curlies and Shiva Valley
That is where it all began, Anjuna was chosen by beatniks in the early 60's and began to live here. They founded the famous day market, Curlies, Shiva Valley
In Anjuna most good restaurants of Italian, French, Greek, Jewish cuisine. Some are in an encrypted field, so look for them on unknown paths. Anzhunsky oldest restaurant - "Banana Joe". In the past year has opened a Russian restaurant, "The Road" and the opposite - Israel Bar "Atala," which was popular among people looking for adventure.
This is the place where it all began. That Anjuna chosen beatniks in the early 60's and began to live here. They founded the famous day market, which operates on Wednesdays from morning till night. The market is located right on the beach in a palm grove, but in recent years has grown and has already captured a good half of the nearby rice fields. Here you can buy all this Indian bullshit to try Indian food trade fairs and even a drink, and late afternoon, before sunset, to move into a restaurant on the bank, which already begins to play music. At the same coast there are a few places, where the night events.
On the cliffs above the sea settled Club Paradiso, working almost every day.
On the opposite end of the village from the sea - the place for late-night raves, "Dolce Vita" and "Bamboo Forest".
In Anjuna infrastructure. In the village of three supermarkets, the largest of them, "Oxford" is on the road to Vagator, near the main anzhunskim crosshair. At the same crossroads - day dining restaurant "Manchis. Two other supermarket "Orchid" and "Old Oxford," are on the road to Dundee. In these shops you can buy any kind of European products, ranging from Parma ham and salami and ending with Parmesan, pesto, arugula salad. A wide selection of bakery goods from the French and German bakeries. In addition to food and alcohol in the local supermarkets sell related products - from plates and glasses, to medicines and toys - and you can change money and to give things to the laundry. If you entered the supermarket and not know where that is - do not hesitate to ask, where is what you need in India decided to hide a rare commodity away from the eyes of buyers.
Anjuna is located in the heart of North Goa: 25 minutes on the federal highway motor scooter to the south, and you're in the state capital of Panjim, the same 25 minutes north to Arambol. However, 25 minutes is only true if you are not the first time in Goa, knows the road and managed from the scooter. For beginners, of course, estimated time is better to multiply by three, and you should not go the federal route. South to the capital, it is better to get on a beautiful road along the sea, which ends ferry. The ferry docks right in Panjim, he used to cost four rupees, and since last year, now free for two-wheeled modes of transport. To the nearest town or ITA Mapusy from Anjuna to go 15 minutes.
Externally absolutely associated with all known notions of paradise: white sand, like a painted palm trees, Aquamarine sea and, of course, parties to the moon.
It has everything: bars, restaurants, cafes, discos, all kinds of shops. We recommend you arrive in Anjuna on Wednesday to visit a wonderful flea market. This is where West meets East and here you can buy almost everything. This beach-town is famous for the whole of Goa "flea" market, which takes place every Wednesday, and where you can find the perfect product of Tibetan and Kashmiri weaver and embroiderer, artisans of Gujarat and Rajasthan. It is a paradise for lovers of the exotic. Here, west meets east, and everything is for sale. Anjuna - a legendary place in the palm grove and a nearby vacant lot to the beach on Wednesdays arranged Flea Market - flea market (chilomy, CD, jewelry, fashion clothing from Indonesia, Thailand, restaurants and beer and much more), sometimes pass trance-party next to the small coastal Hindu temple, but on ordinary days the coastal part of Anjuna looks pretty sad and for housing is a place a little fit because of its desert and neuyutnosti. The left (when facing the sea) from the zone of the flea market is small, "themed" small beach. The residential area is located deep in the Anjuna coast, over the hill. Here people are mostly removed rustic cabins for the entire season. But if you run, then and there, even in the dead of winter you can find a nice house or room. At sunset, be sure to visit Shore Bar, which at that time people come to meditate under severe psy-trance to the sun;
Anjuna / Anjuna (Anjuna), considered the capital of Goa trance (Goa trance), located 20 minutes walk across the cliffs of Little Vagator. Fairly narrow beach, especially compared to everyone else. A large number of young Israelis, Israeli, and not just sheki and restaurants. Right on the beach offering hashish and everything else. ... Cows - frequent visitors to this beach. As well as Vagator. But unlike Vagator, traders here menshe.Na Anjuna beach is the famous Shore Bar, in the evening escorted solntse.Po Wednesdays there is the famous flea market / Flimarket (Flea-Market), where they sell mostly Hindus. By the way of advice: if you are going to flimarket a taxi, take a taxi directly there and back. Otherwise, on the way back to you room ungodly medical benefits cost. And all because a taxi stand there, waiting for those most intelligent tourists who immediately agreed to travel back and obratno.Na territory Flimarketa is a Russian restaurant Tchaikovsky (Chaikoffsky), where you can taste dishes of various cuisines, as they say on the spot (ie Flimarketa). At the very north of Anjuna is Paradiso (Paradiso) - a place for parties, which is owned by the Government of India. This may be the future of Goa - not so many illegal parties, and nights in places like this. That's how things work in our time. Even Goa Gil to play here. The world is not standing still
Vagator
Vagator - is one of the "rave" on the beaches of Goa. On the beach Little Vagator surrounded by cliffs - a bunch of shekov upstairs is open-air night club Nine Bar, held here every day trance party from 18.00 to 22.00, and beside him a nice restaurant and hotel alcove. Over the top is a popular beach a few years ago patry-place Disco Valley. Next to the alcove and Nine Bar is located Fluri-shop clothes, which keep the Europeans. In Little Vagator is also famous Shiva Carving, sculpture, carved in the rock unknown hippie. Nearby is a shack Shiva Place.
Morjim
Walrus, chic three-kilometer beach, is the latest from the northern beaches, lying in p. Chapora. Morjim considered "Russian" beach. In the north of the beach is Russian seafood restaurant Glavfish. Between Mordzhimom and Chopdemom the famous Tortoiseshell beach where turtles at certain times of laying eggs.
Ashvem
Ashvem, surrounded by a palm grove, is located a few kilometers south of Mandrema. The beach has lots of shekov. In Ashveme can rent a house overlooking the ocean. However, proximity Mordzhima impact - a lot of Russian.
Arambol
Most northern beaches. Minimum tsiviliztsii a maximum of exotics. Prozhivnie in hotels is not offered. You can remove the reed hut with different levels of amenities (from $ 5). Despite this, there are restaurants and all that is necessary for normal life. We recommend you to go and spend the night in the hut.
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