Goa!!! 20th- 22nd October 2007
Team: Jaina, Anika and Me from Bangalore
Nikita and Radhika from Mumbai
We’ve been planning this trip from God knows when and due to circumstances beyond our control things didn’t happen…Anyways better late then never…so me and Jaina decided that on 20th we are going to Goa….if some one wanna join they can…otherwise it will be just the both of us…With this thought in mind, we asked Anika, Radhika and Nikita and luckily all of them agreed. We knew that the stay there wont be a problem since Jaina’s uncle was there. Since all our trip has some sort of gadbad…be it booking the tickets for the journey or booking the hotel…and now since the later wasn’t a problem we were worried about the former…TICKETS…naam sun kar hee darr lagta hai…but even that wasn’t a big problem…haan aaram se nahi mile…but if u compare with the mashakkat which we did for Pondy…this was a cake walk…so now we had our tickets in hand, stay was confirmed…and now the big question … “ek din ki chutti”…somehow with me and Jaina managed to get our leave approved…Anika’s was still a problem…but she some how managed it. Arey itna sab itni planned way se kaise hua??? This question was always in the back of our mind and we were really dreading ki kab kya galat hoga….with this thought, finally the day of our departure arrived…it was a Friday and getting out of office by 5 o’clock on a Friday is like a war in itself (the consequences of which was evident on Tuesday when we were back)… girte padte we reached the bus stop at Madiwala…and waiting there was our first surprise….our bus was scheduled to leave at 7.30pm and reach Goa at around 10 am the next day…but when we reached the bus stop…the travel agent said that the bus will leave at 9.30 pm and that too from Gandhinagar…so now we rushed to Gandhinagar…the bus stop was a pathetic place…it was raining and due to that all the passengers were stuffed in a very small room…. It was pathetically suffocating… Somehow, finally our bus started at 10.15 pm…and we were
supposed to reach Goa by 12.30…huh…half a day wasted (this was the thought which was bothering us…but…) … we had a nice sleep in the bus…which was a Volvo and when we got up in the morning and looked out of the window…all that we could see was greenery…greenery all over…wow…it was one of the most beautiful mornings I have seen… (At least this was not one of those mornings when we get up at 6 and rush to office!!!)...but it wasn’t long enough that we realized that our bus was horribly late…6 hours to be precise… we had our lunch which was Dosa at a place which was about 3.5 hours from out destination…now since things were out of our control we just chatted and cursed the bus driver for driving sooooo slowly… gossiped as if we this opportunity wont come again….finally we reached Goa at 4 in the evening… our guesthouse was at a very beautiful location…just cross the road and you would be face to face with the mighty Arabian Sea…
After reaching there we had evening snacks which was poha made by Mangilal…the cook…I guess he is the best cook I have ever seen…ghar ke khaane ke baad…his khaana is the best…yummmyyyyy…then we went to the very old St Francis Church which had the famous mummy which was more than 500 years old!!!! From there we headed to Calangote Beach (which is supposed to be famous for water sports)...did some masti there, some shopping and then went for the Paradise boat cruise along the river Mandovi…till the Arabian sea ….did a lot of 
masti there…went to the Disc…danced to the tunes of Hindi music…after a one hour of boat ride we were back to the guesthouse just to be greeted by the again so yummy Dinner…now it was around 10.30…Ab kya karna hai…hmm…and to my great astonishment at 11 pm we were on our way to Cidade de Goa’s Casino… played for about an hour winning just once 35 times but that too we lost…our aim was clear…to play till the time we loose 
the amount which we had put in…we went there with the sole intention of fun and not gamble…and fun we definitely had…for 1 full hour…after that Anika, Nikita and Radhika had a photo session at the hotel and at around 12.30 we headed back…discussing the logic behind Roulette…As per madam Nikita… “We need to analyze the probability and freeze in the numbers within a matter of seconds”…Probability in Roulette!!! Only Nikita can think about finding logical solutions in Roulette….
Day 2: The next day we decided that we will start a bit early…this day we
thought we would concentrate only on water sports…we reached the Calangote beach at around 9.30 in the morning…the first sport which we did was Banana Slip…sound interesting???? Well it is but perilous, thrilling…horrendous…mind-blowing (literally) as well…what we were supposed to do was this….there was a big inflated banana on which we were supposed to sit…all the five of us…this Banana was roped to a motor boat…now they will take us in the middle of the sea…I guess it was some 250 metres into the sea and drop us into the water…just imagine…none of us knew swimming and being dropped into the sea was a feeling which actually brought chill across our body…this he was supposed to do thrice…. So the first time he did I felt that I am dead…no one can save me now…I am gone…gone forever….but then the life guard came from God knows where and picked us up one by one… luckily I was the first one…looking at friends who are shouting and in sea while you are safe up there on the banana is really not interesting…it took a lot of time for the lifeguard to get all the girls back there safely… I remember Jaina was the last one…and was horrified to the core…I realized how it felt to be the last one to be picked since at the second fall, it was my turn to be picked last…I felt as if it took him half an hour to retrieve me…when u fall in water from the banana…you go around a meter deep in the water and then come back to the surface…but in that split second…it feels like hell….it was the most wild and adventurous thing which I have done till date!!!
After Banana Slip we went in for the Motor Scooter which was also good…not as exciting but really good… to ride the scooter at 100 kmph speed and that too on
sea waves was a wonderful experience… After this we went in for Parasailing…a parachute attached to the motor boat…u are some 50-60 metes up in the air…alone…initially me and Jaina had an inhibition that whether we will be able to sustain the wind at such a high level…but it was cool….at such a height there was just sea all over….one cant see anything but blue sea below…the waves of the sea….freinds below waving at you….the chilling air…wonderful….just amazing…words aren’t enough to explain the feeling…you need to experience this to know how it feels… after these stunts into the sea…we decided to enjoy the waves of the sea…and enjoyed we definitely did…wow…for around an hour we were there and then had our lunch at some restaurant….let me just skip that part…its not really worth mentioning… we did some shopping on the road leading to the beach and then we decided to go to Baga Beach…it was I guess around 2-3 kms from Calangote beach….we enjoyed at the beach…one thing worth mentioning here is that Pondy beaches are anytime better than Goa beaches…maybe bcoz Pondy is still unexplored and is not adulterated with the heavy inflow of tourists…about an hour at Baga Beach we realized that it was 4 in the evening and Radhika had to catch her bus Back to Bby so we rushed back to the guesthouse and she almost missed the bus…. We had our dinner and then the “barf ka Gola”…Wow…this was the first ever and very unique gola…what was unique was that it was instead of using the usual sharbats it was made of milkmaid….tasted just yummmmmmmm….Hats off to Mangilal’s culinary skills…Mangilal ki Jai!!!!
Day 3: we didn’t have anything specific planned for day 3 (as if we had planned the first two days!!). the only thing which we decided to do was a bit of shopping and go to the fort…so in the morning we went to the Fort first…did some time pass there, lot of photo sessions…DCH types…peeping from the hole types…climbing the pyramids type…and what not…photos at all locations which were worth taking or even useless places…spent around an hour there and then madam Nikita and Anika wanted to do shopping…so there we were….doing shopping at a bright sunny afternoon….well shopping is neither mine nor Jaina’s cup of tea…but…
After some couple of hours, once these madams were thru with their shopping, we headed for our lunch….the lunch at Legacy of Bombay was good….when we entered the restaurant it was sunny outside….we were all sweating…but when we stepped out of the hotel…it was pouring…not drizzling but pouring as if we were there during peak monsoon….it reminded me of the heavy rainfall at Coorg… then we went back to the guesthouse stopping at a shop to buy some cashew nuts…and by the time we reached it was sunny again…then me and Anika went to the beach just in front of our guest house which was Miramar Beach...It was a nice beach…we spent around an hour there and then were back to get ready for our journey back to Blr…. We were very late…as usual…and almost missed the bus….then there were some confusion and Nikita’s bag was with us….the bus started and was not ready to stop even for a minute…Jaina’s uncle and Nikita followed us…after following for around half an hour…they finally managed to overtake our bus and then we handed over the bag to her….really chaotic situation….anyways…that was the beginning of our travel back to Bangalore….it was as usual horrible…we reached Blr at around 8.30 in the morning the next day and was in office at 11am…End of the adventure @Goa!!!
Team: Jaina, Anika and Me from Bangalore
Nikita and Radhika from Mumbai
We’ve been planning this trip from God knows when and due to circumstances beyond our control things didn’t happen…Anyways better late then never…so me and Jaina decided that on 20th we are going to Goa….if some one wanna join they can…otherwise it will be just the both of us…With this thought in mind, we asked Anika, Radhika and Nikita and luckily all of them agreed. We knew that the stay there wont be a problem since Jaina’s uncle was there. Since all our trip has some sort of gadbad…be it booking the tickets for the journey or booking the hotel…and now since the later wasn’t a problem we were worried about the former…TICKETS…naam sun kar hee darr lagta hai…but even that wasn’t a big problem…haan aaram se nahi mile…but if u compare with the mashakkat which we did for Pondy…this was a cake walk…so now we had our tickets in hand, stay was confirmed…and now the big question … “ek din ki chutti”…somehow with me and Jaina managed to get our leave approved…Anika’s was still a problem…but she some how managed it. Arey itna sab itni planned way se kaise hua??? This question was always in the back of our mind and we were really dreading ki kab kya galat hoga….with this thought, finally the day of our departure arrived…it was a Friday and getting out of office by 5 o’clock on a Friday is like a war in itself (the consequences of which was evident on Tuesday when we were back)… girte padte we reached the bus stop at Madiwala…and waiting there was our first surprise….our bus was scheduled to leave at 7.30pm and reach Goa at around 10 am the next day…but when we reached the bus stop…the travel agent said that the bus will leave at 9.30 pm and that too from Gandhinagar…so now we rushed to Gandhinagar…the bus stop was a pathetic place…it was raining and due to that all the passengers were stuffed in a very small room…. It was pathetically suffocating… Somehow, finally our bus started at 10.15 pm…and we were
supposed to reach Goa by 12.30…huh…half a day wasted (this was the thought which was bothering us…but…) … we had a nice sleep in the bus…which was a Volvo and when we got up in the morning and looked out of the window…all that we could see was greenery…greenery all over…wow…it was one of the most beautiful mornings I have seen… (At least this was not one of those mornings when we get up at 6 and rush to office!!!)...but it wasn’t long enough that we realized that our bus was horribly late…6 hours to be precise… we had our lunch which was Dosa at a place which was about 3.5 hours from out destination…now since things were out of our control we just chatted and cursed the bus driver for driving sooooo slowly… gossiped as if we this opportunity wont come again….finally we reached Goa at 4 in the evening… our guesthouse was at a very beautiful location…just cross the road and you would be face to face with the mighty Arabian Sea…
After reaching there we had evening snacks which was poha made by Mangilal…the cook…I guess he is the best cook I have ever seen…ghar ke khaane ke baad…his khaana is the best…yummmyyyyy…then we went to the very old St Francis Church which had the famous mummy which was more than 500 years old!!!! From there we headed to Calangote Beach (which is supposed to be famous for water sports)...did some masti there, some shopping and then went for the Paradise boat cruise along the river Mandovi…till the Arabian sea ….did a lot of 
masti there…went to the Disc…danced to the tunes of Hindi music…after a one hour of boat ride we were back to the guesthouse just to be greeted by the again so yummy Dinner…now it was around 10.30…Ab kya karna hai…hmm…and to my great astonishment at 11 pm we were on our way to Cidade de Goa’s Casino… played for about an hour winning just once 35 times but that too we lost…our aim was clear…to play till the time we loose 
the amount which we had put in…we went there with the sole intention of fun and not gamble…and fun we definitely had…for 1 full hour…after that Anika, Nikita and Radhika had a photo session at the hotel and at around 12.30 we headed back…discussing the logic behind Roulette…As per madam Nikita… “We need to analyze the probability and freeze in the numbers within a matter of seconds”…Probability in Roulette!!! Only Nikita can think about finding logical solutions in Roulette….Day 2: The next day we decided that we will start a bit early…this day we
thought we would concentrate only on water sports…we reached the Calangote beach at around 9.30 in the morning…the first sport which we did was Banana Slip…sound interesting???? Well it is but perilous, thrilling…horrendous…mind-blowing (literally) as well…what we were supposed to do was this….there was a big inflated banana on which we were supposed to sit…all the five of us…this Banana was roped to a motor boat…now they will take us in the middle of the sea…I guess it was some 250 metres into the sea and drop us into the water…just imagine…none of us knew swimming and being dropped into the sea was a feeling which actually brought chill across our body…this he was supposed to do thrice…. So the first time he did I felt that I am dead…no one can save me now…I am gone…gone forever….but then the life guard came from God knows where and picked us up one by one… luckily I was the first one…looking at friends who are shouting and in sea while you are safe up there on the banana is really not interesting…it took a lot of time for the lifeguard to get all the girls back there safely… I remember Jaina was the last one…and was horrified to the core…I realized how it felt to be the last one to be picked since at the second fall, it was my turn to be picked last…I felt as if it took him half an hour to retrieve me…when u fall in water from the banana…you go around a meter deep in the water and then come back to the surface…but in that split second…it feels like hell….it was the most wild and adventurous thing which I have done till date!!!After Banana Slip we went in for the Motor Scooter which was also good…not as exciting but really good… to ride the scooter at 100 kmph speed and that too on
sea waves was a wonderful experience… After this we went in for Parasailing…a parachute attached to the motor boat…u are some 50-60 metes up in the air…alone…initially me and Jaina had an inhibition that whether we will be able to sustain the wind at such a high level…but it was cool….at such a height there was just sea all over….one cant see anything but blue sea below…the waves of the sea….freinds below waving at you….the chilling air…wonderful….just amazing…words aren’t enough to explain the feeling…you need to experience this to know how it feels… after these stunts into the sea…we decided to enjoy the waves of the sea…and enjoyed we definitely did…wow…for around an hour we were there and then had our lunch at some restaurant….let me just skip that part…its not really worth mentioning… we did some shopping on the road leading to the beach and then we decided to go to Baga Beach…it was I guess around 2-3 kms from Calangote beach….we enjoyed at the beach…one thing worth mentioning here is that Pondy beaches are anytime better than Goa beaches…maybe bcoz Pondy is still unexplored and is not adulterated with the heavy inflow of tourists…about an hour at Baga Beach we realized that it was 4 in the evening and Radhika had to catch her bus Back to Bby so we rushed back to the guesthouse and she almost missed the bus…. We had our dinner and then the “barf ka Gola”…Wow…this was the first ever and very unique gola…what was unique was that it was instead of using the usual sharbats it was made of milkmaid….tasted just yummmmmmmm….Hats off to Mangilal’s culinary skills…Mangilal ki Jai!!!!Day 3: we didn’t have anything specific planned for day 3 (as if we had planned the first two days!!). the only thing which we decided to do was a bit of shopping and go to the fort…so in the morning we went to the Fort first…did some time pass there, lot of photo sessions…DCH types…peeping from the hole types…climbing the pyramids type…and what not…photos at all locations which were worth taking or even useless places…spent around an hour there and then madam Nikita and Anika wanted to do shopping…so there we were….doing shopping at a bright sunny afternoon….well shopping is neither mine nor Jaina’s cup of tea…but…
After some couple of hours, once these madams were thru with their shopping, we headed for our lunch….the lunch at Legacy of Bombay was good….when we entered the restaurant it was sunny outside….we were all sweating…but when we stepped out of the hotel…it was pouring…not drizzling but pouring as if we were there during peak monsoon….it reminded me of the heavy rainfall at Coorg… then we went back to the guesthouse stopping at a shop to buy some cashew nuts…and by the time we reached it was sunny again…then me and Anika went to the beach just in front of our guest house which was Miramar Beach...It was a nice beach…we spent around an hour there and then were back to get ready for our journey back to Blr…. We were very late…as usual…and almost missed the bus….then there were some confusion and Nikita’s bag was with us….the bus started and was not ready to stop even for a minute…Jaina’s uncle and Nikita followed us…after following for around half an hour…they finally managed to overtake our bus and then we handed over the bag to her….really chaotic situation….anyways…that was the beginning of our travel back to Bangalore….it was as usual horrible…we reached Blr at around 8.30 in the morning the next day and was in office at 11am…End of the adventure @Goa!!!
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