Trip to Goa

A Trip to Goa...

Everything on earth which is till today… should have begin/created at some point.

So here is the reason for planning this trip.

We started 2 goa on 2nd march 2016 as one of our US friend(sharath chandra) returned india for a month stay. And we  had planned  for a get together as he came 2 india after 2 years of his stay in US.

After refering a lot many places, we finally stuck up with goa. Totally excited about the trip as most of us never visited Goa, infact never saw a sea before(espicially me).

Me along with my friends had very planned trips earlier like wayanad(kerala), and to some riligious places like Bhadrachalam, Tirupathi etc. But this time, due to busy times in office and short time for planning and  due to our tortoise US friend there was no plan.

We all had applied leaves for 4 days(thursday to sunday) and booked tickets 2 days before the trip.

When we got the head count, we were a cricket team(11 members). Just like our indian cricket team has players from different states in our country and came united as Indian cricket team, we too started our journey from diffenent places as we work in different states and different fields and planned 2 reach Goa by 3rd march 2016 mng(thursday mng).

Here is a small introduction about my friends who are in this trip to Goa.

Abhilash started from pune, 3 of his cousin brothers Giri, Uday and Manoj started from hyderabad and on the way picked up two of our best buddies karthik and Revanth at jadcharla which is near to my home town kurnool. And the final troop of 5 members started from banglore which included me(Vinod), Ravi, Naresh , Avinash and sharath babu.

 

       If you remember carefully, there is an important guys missing… who's that… a puzzle to you ?………… yeah… u got it… the tortoise/US guy(Sarath chandra) is missing in the trip. we all were a bit upset as this entire trip was planned for him as he earlier missed the beautiful wayanad trip because he was in US at that time. As things didnot worked out for him due to his personal reasons and priorities he has again missed this trip to Goa.

We all started on 2nd march 2016(wed night) and planned 4 a four days stay in Goa. We all kept the destination spot as PANJIM and should be a crew of 11 members by 10 am in the next mng.

Note: All the above things are written by  me(vinod) on the night journey to goa in seabird tourists bus, were my friends were slepping after a lot of fun chat and whatsapp talk exchanges as we are travelling in different directions to Goa.

It was something like "At the end of our life, we all reach one supreme god using different paths(religions)"… seems to match up our current scenario of travelling 2 goa from diff directions.

3rd March 2016(thusday mng)

It was around 5am when we reached Hubli, and driver gave a stop for 10mins near the highway at a tea stall corner. Though all my friends are in deep sleep i wokeup searching for water and had got down and relaxed for a bit of time.

At 7'o clock we were stopped for breakfast but we were not in breakfast mood as its too early time in the mng, therefore we all took coffee and tea break companied with biscuits.

We all started now to Panjim and as per our discussion with bus driver, we will reach the panjim stop by an hour delay i.e 11 am, where as all our other crew will be reaching by around 8:30.

Travelling in bus for such long hours is not a new thing for me as in the last 9 years, bus journeys have become part of my life. During B'tech we had bus journeys for 4 years, which took 4 hours in a day for up and down journey to our engineering college. Post b'tech, i have joined HCL Comnet in Chennai as fresher and stayed for 3 months, where i was travelling for 12 hours from chennai to my home town kurnool, andhra pradesh. Then i have assigned a project in hyd (ceva logistics) and worked as unix admin for 2 years and travelling every week from Hyderabad to kurnool which took 4 hours of my time in bus journey. At last i got an opportunity to work with Accenture, Bangalore(project : starwood hotels and resorts) from last 2.5 years and.was travelling 2 my home once in two weeks which made me to travel for 8 hours in bus during this period.

The bus journey to Goa was comfortable for me, where as some of my friends were complaining about their disturbed sleep and comfortables. As we need more energy to spend in goa… all went for a power nap and some were listening music and here i am typing this blog for my pleasure.

We reached Belgum @ 8am which is the border of Karnataka and we need 3 more hours to travel to goa(Panjim) which is around 150 kms from here. It takes 3 hours as there is forest and Ghat section durning this time and is the reason for 3 hours of journey.

We reached Panjim by 11:30 am and went 2 home stay @ Roy and Ron hotel and had met all my friends @this hotel and finally we were a crew of 11 members now and we had a deal for 3days stay @ Rs 13k in Roy and Ron home stay and took 6 activa bikes, rs 300 for each bike and got refreshed. We had a tasty lunch at near by hotel and planned our first place to visit.

 

We first went Auguda fort and this fort was built in 16th century was a pleasant place to visit where one can see the diff architecture of the fort. There is a beautiful scenic view of the sea from this fort. We had took beautiful pics near this places.

Auguda fort

                                                  pics taken at Auguda fort

After visiting this place, we had some cooldrinks near the fort and planned to visit the colungitty beach.

We reached colungitty beach by 4pm and the beach is getting crowded as it is evening time.  I was fully excited as i watched the sea and the beach for the first time in my life.

The soil in the beach was very soft and liked to walk with bare foot. We started to enjoy the waves and the water was too much salty… but fun dominated all such barriers.

We all were playing with the waves,  we tried to walk into the sea and the waves were pushing us to beach. We had a fantastic time here and had pineapple fruits with friends along with some drinks.

After getting relaxed here, while coming out Giri, Uday, avinash had permanent tattoos, and Naresh had a temporary taatoo. Uday and Avinash had tatoos of there names below their wrist and Giri had a tattoo saying "daddys lil boy",  Naresh had a tribal design on his bicep.

After tattoos program, we planned 2 go to a new place and had thought 2 go to a near by beach for the party and dinner.

We went to the beach, and had lots of fun as we played kabadi game in the soft soil after some drinks. We had a tasty dinner here and went 2 hotel at around 1 am.

We all were too tired when we reached our home stay as we did long journey in bus on this day and roamed the city on bikes. Unfortunately there was no electricity in the building and no body was able 2 sleep properly.

We spoke to the owner of our hotel Mr Roy about the inconvenience as we see power in other rooms of the hotel but not in our rooms. To our surprise, the owner gave us another room temporarily for that night and we all slept very comfortably on this night around 3a.m. It was very painful for me as my leg got strained twice during the kabadi match in the beach.

The next day we woke up at 8 AM and my leg was in great pain and i was unable to walk normally but we started 2 baga beach by 10 am after finishing our breakfast.

The Baga Beach

It was a hot sunny day at baga beach, which is famous for it water sports. Each sport has a cost set and the top adventurous sport was parasailling. We all went for the parachut raid and it was awsome experience as we were driven into the sea by exchanging two boats.
We all enjoyed the adventurous sport and had memorable time in the mid of the sea, however the paragliding a bit costly one Rs1100/- per head, but its worth of it as you fly like a bird and have a dip in sea and again fly to the sky. While returning all my friends gave a dive into the sea as they were protected with the live jackets and guys had fun in water.

its me ...simulating like a bird

  After reaching the beach, i felt to take some rest and took 3 chairs having umbrella at the beach and got relaxed well with the Goa drinks and fruits. However our guys still has the enthusiasm to play more games and went on to play water boat and other games. Karthik and abhi had temporary taatoos here, karthik had 2 tribal designs and abhi had a Scorpio tatoo. After relaxing for time our  stomachs were thriving for food. And soon we took our bikes started to next beach spot and planned for a tasty meal on the way.

After having a fantastic meal, we started 2 anjuna beach, where abhi's bike gave a kiss 2 speed breaker and had a small skid and abhi got the some goa marks on his leg and hand which was a distortion for all us and visited goa hospital for the first aid… however we reached the anjuna beach for the sunset view which was extremely beautiful. It was such a scenic view we never experienced earlier. I was sitting on a rock with waves talking to me very frequently and my legs we playing with the waves and watching the good bye scene of the sun for this day.  Our guys started playing with disk and the vollyball till they got tired. It was around 9 pm which is the closing time for the beach. We had a funny experiences in this beach as we lost bike key for some time, bike got skid in the slopy sand of the beach and at last started the bikes to our rooms to take some rest. But our guys preferred Baga beach as it will not close during night times.

 

Scenic view at Anjuna beach

Finally we spent 3 beautiful days in Goa... where we had all type of experiences, scenic view, parties, night bike rides , verity of Goa food etc..... We all had a very refreshing trip... We all reached our destinations safely with all memorable incidents in Goa!!!

I would suggest this place(Goa) to be visited once in a bachelor life...

Thank You For Reading this blog of mine....

- Vinod Kumar