The truth about North Goa
Hello everyone. I am writing the truth, because lying doesn't make sense. There are only two pluses in North GOA - the sea and the Shining Star cafe, which is located in Baga on a coastal street, on a section of Calangute beach (for the sake of it, in fact, a review). In the cafe, the food is EXCELLENT and inexpensive - believe me - I walked almost the entire street along all the beaches. At any time of the day, it is worth refreshing there and raising the degree, and only then go further - everything will seem much more pleasant and more fun. The cafe itself is very small, it is an open veranda near the beach road for 8 tables. But - the cuisine is surprisingly very tasty and varied, you can and should try REAL Indian dishes at a reasonable price. The waiters understand Russian (which is very rare in GOA). At your request, the dishes will not be spicy and adapted to delicate European stomachs. The sea (coastal of the Indian Ocean) is very warm and friendly. Relatively large waves will bring a lot of pleasure. But next to the beach of Baga Beach, the BAGA River flows into it, to which fishermen bring their catch, and substandard ones are often thrown into the sea in large batches - all this rotten fish then rolls along the beach and interferes with swimming in the water.
The hotel was normal (in my Baga Beach Marina Resort), the sea - in general, too, the cafe I wrote about - just super. Everything else is just rubbish! Believe and do not even doubt! By itself, North Goa is dirty, poor and miserable, even if compared with Thailand or Egypt. If you arrived at the beginning of the season (when there are still few white people there), and even with your family, everywhere, and especially on the beach, you will feel like an animal in a zoo, these wild Indians will shamelessly examine you, take pictures on their phones, gather in heaps around and vigorously discuss in their own language, etc. regardless of your objections. Everywhere and on the beaches, wild cows and dogs walk and crap anywhere. The roads are very narrow and there are NO sidewalks on them, you are constantly at risk of being knocked down (especially with children) on the sides of the road there is red dust that climbs everywhere into the shales and nose. To move only by taxi, not quite expensive, but constantly go nuts. If you need somewhere and you want to take a walk. My advice to you is instead of kneading the mud and pushing along the beach on the first street - walking along the beaches along the sea to the right place - they won’t knock you down (in fact, everything is close and you can swim along the way ). Adult men have another charm - inexpensive real GOAN ROM (essentially Portuguese), sold in many places in plastic bottles for $ 2. This is a real Rum and is much more pleasant to drink than the Cuban BACCARDI from Duty Free. He saved from a lot, but there is no salvation for decent children and women in this mud! We bought fruit, washed it well - the next three days were lost for my wife and daughter - they didn’t get out of the room and, accordingly, they couldn’t eat anything else. Only ROM saved me - it really DISINFECTS! If you want to try local exotics, try only with their own Rum. Excursions are all uninteresting, expensive and distant. We went to the zoo, to the waterfall, rode elephants, but nothing special - for the same money in Thailand you can just ride.
In general, that's all - I went there because of the trick of the tour operator who colorfully advertised everything to me, I won’t go there again and I don’t advise you. By the way, Hippie, like the Hippie festival during my stay - (end of October) was not there (and tour operator promised). Good luck and don't get scammed by operators who haven't been to GOA themselves.
