Goa a former Portuguese colony has it’s borders stretching along the Arabian sea. It’s known Portuguese colonial architecture and heritage, of course the beaches, nightlife, parties and a bit of spirituality as well. Couple of my Irish friends were travelling across India. I happened to be in Pune and we had planned to meet in Goa.
I took an overnight bus to Goa and a local bus until Candolim then walked all the way to the hostel were my friends stayed. They had gone for an Ayurveda detox program that morning. Hard to believe detox in Goa but yeah it’s famous among western travelers it’s a week long program. Once they were back, greeted them and along with few other travelers all us went to the beach and relaxed the whole evening, sharing lot of travel stories.
Next day an English friend “Vic”, Swedish friend “Jacob” and I had planned to explore some of the unexplored terrains of Goa. Vic had told us, there is a GPS location he has got, we need to trek down to the beach and the place is extremely beautiful, hardly any one goes there. One of his friends back in UK had gone there once.
This little explored beach is in South Goa. We set off to this place on two wheeler from Candolim in North Goa. Since Vic didn’t want to ride i took him on my bike. In a small town near by, we had local Goan food with solkadi (Konkani drink), then moved towards South Goa.
On the way we visited the Palolem beach. Not much crowded compared to the North Goa beaches. There were few activities which people could opt for. We swam for sometime and then relaxed on the beach after a long tiring drive.
Next stop was Agonda beach. This seemed like a perfect holiday beach. Very much laid back and hardly few people, we loved the calmness here. Handful number of huts for travelers to stay. We did swim again for sometime before heading to the must visit spot of the day “Beach unknown”.
We kind of reached a dead end and the place was completely deserted. Vic said his GPS is signaling us to trek down from this place. So we parked our vehicles and started descending down. At one point of time even the trekking route disappeared. Now we all were little skeptical in moving forward. But Vic was sure about the place, somehow we need to make our way down he said. Jacob tried to clear the bushes and we slowly walked down the slope. After walking for while we found a muddy track and got some hope to find our destination.
Followed the track and found a two wheeler parked. There was a tiny way next to it. We followed it and saw a small beach. That was the place we were looking for. Few locals playing cricket other than that absolutely no body there. There was a restaurant on the rocks few feet above the beach.
It seemed like a paradise. The most enjoyable part of the trip was this place. There are less people, the sun set and the light falling on the ocean was simply beautiful. We started off by taking a quick dip in the ocean and played Frisbee for sometime. After an adventurous day it was time to head back to the hostel in Candolim.
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