Roadtrip: Pune - Goa

6 pm is the time to be alive in Goa. A round orange object drowns into the ocean, coloring the sky magnificently. There’s this inexplicable thing about sunsets, they take you to some place. Some place where you don’t care about your pending project review or your incomplete assignments or the thought of Johnny Evans defending behind a diamond.

Photo Credit: Sagar Navgire 

The road trip.

Hotel California, Dil Chahta Hai and some Coldplay songs on the loop. And occasionally, the ‘Patli Maggie Noodle’ song. We left Pune at 7 in the morning and had lunch at Kolhapur. We walked into a misal joint. It was over crowded. People inside, especially the women were dressed as if they were running late for a wedding ceremony. But the more interesting part was the bill. The waiter actually forced us to pay 20 bucks less. Amazing place this city is.

We reached Goa by around 7 pm. Spent the evening on Candolim beach. This Candolim area is nice and beautiful, like a small European city. A parking ticket for 40, beer for 50, and chocolate milk for 80, Goa is really an interesting place. On the second day we started with the Anjuna beach. Not really a beach, but a great place to spend an afternoon. Vagator beach and Chapura Fort were next on the list. We lazed around the Vagator for an hour and thought of climbing the Chapura Fort (Dil Chahta Hai) from inside Vagator. The guard stopped us. Good thing he did, we realized this after we reached the fort, via car.

Next on the list were Baga and Calungute. Unfortunately the first thing I saw on Baga was a group of middle aged half naked Indian men clicking pictures of themselves in disturbing positions. If you’re not Irina Shayk you just cannot pose like that. I never went back to that part of the beach again. But overall, Baga is the place you want to hangout after sunset.The next few evenings we spent at Bistro in Baga.

Bistro, Baga

Apparently the event in BITs the following day was the reason for this Goa trip. That was one thing we so wanted to skip. To avoid that feeling of guilt, we did attend the event, after which we visited Dona Paula and later the ‘Saturday Night Market’ and Baga. We stayed at Baga till 3:30am. That was one eventful night. On the last day we spent the afternoon at the Arambol beach, 20km north of Candolim and then the usual, Baga in the evening.
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P.S. Sagar Navgire drove over 1000 kilometers in 4 days. You made this road trip possible man. 

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