I think it depends where (and, quite possibly, when) you are in Goa. I was in a small fishing village, Chapora, with one dusty street and a handful of shops and food places (restaurants would be too grand a word) in the north of Goa. I had a rented room in a house in the dappled light of the surrounding trees with chickens scratching around in the dirt outside and a 5 minute walk to the beach. Idyllic.NottinghamWhite wrote:The thing about India is it’s so noisy with car/lorry horns beeping constantly. As I said in a previous post on this thread the minute you walk down the steps of the plane your senses are attacked by blazing dry heat, the wonderful aroma of spices and then the noise. As started earlier Goa is alright just but the Western Ghats are beautiful and the people amazing.
I took a bus from Mapusa, the nearest town, to Mysore and then up through the Ghats to a wildlife reserve and then on up to Ooty to stay in a palace. Then back down to Cochin and the backwaters to Aleppy and on to Kovalam beach in Kerala, staying in a guest house on the edge of a paddy field. Then to Chennai and Delhi and a flight to Bangkok and 2 months has gone by in half-a-dozen sentences.