For the first time, we got to Vagator Beach from the Casa Vagator hotel. When we were warned before a trip to India that we might have to go to the beach through garbage cans, I did not imagine that it would be literally. Therefore, the first impression was after the shock.
The second impression was also a shock. We put our things on a sunbed of a nearby neck, from where, like a spider on a fly caught in a web, apparently the owner jumped out at us with a menu in his hands and began to poke at us with this menu, forcing us to order something in a rather rude form. After the waiters on the Colva beach, this rude treatment shocked us, and we, not looking for polite words in our pockets, just sent it. Truth in a courteous British manner. The local delyuga began to squeal right there that then you need to pay 100 rupees for a sunbed (in Boomerang we had 3 excellent coffee and 5 sunbeds under a canopy in the shade for 210 rupees) and rolled off only ripping us out of 200 rupees.
A few days later, returning from a morning walk to breakfast, we discovered that the employees of this neck collected water for cooking their pickles underground in the tap at the gate of our hotel where my wife and I washed our feet. One can only imagine how and with what they washed the dishes there. So it's probably good that the first meeting discouraged us from re-approaching this neck.
The third impression was also not encouraging. After the white sand of Colva and the clear water, the dark fine volcanic sand of Vagator made the coastal water look like a swamp. Having sailed a little further from the coast, in order not to run around in the coastal swamp, we found that we were being strongly carried by the current. It was possible to row out quickly, but the desire to swim was gone. There was only one frustration left for leaving the excellent Soul Vacation hotel in Colva, it was not clear where and why, and even more expensive.
But it was only our first day in Vagator and we have not yet found the passage to the beach in Chapor. Though that's a whole other story...
And later we found perhaps the main attraction of Vagator beach - the head of the god Vishnu and the sea turtle carved from stone. These figurines were carved in the 60s by some kind of hippie Dutch sculptor and they have become a local landmark. True, the nearby shaker decided that earnings were more important and laid a path with tiles up to the turtle itself, placing his own fence next to it. But let the locals deal with it.. .
The second impression was also a shock. We put our things on a sunbed of a nearby neck, from where, like a spider on a fly caught in a web, apparently the owner jumped out at us with a menu in his hands and began to poke at us with this menu, forcing us to order something in a rather rude form. After the waiters on the Colva beach, this rude treatment shocked us, and we, not looking for polite words in our pockets, just sent it. Truth in a courteous British manner. The local delyuga began to squeal right there that then you need to pay 100 rupees for a sunbed (in Boomerang we had 3 excellent coffee and 5 sunbeds under a canopy in the shade for 210 rupees) and rolled off only ripping us out of 200 rupees.
A few days later, returning from a morning walk to breakfast, we discovered that the employees of this neck collected water for cooking their pickles underground in the tap at the gate of our hotel where my wife and I washed our feet. One can only imagine how and with what they washed the dishes there. So it's probably good that the first meeting discouraged us from re-approaching this neck.
The third impression was also not encouraging. After the white sand of Colva and the clear water, the dark fine volcanic sand of Vagator made the coastal water look like a swamp. Having sailed a little further from the coast, in order not to run around in the coastal swamp, we found that we were being strongly carried by the current. It was possible to row out quickly, but the desire to swim was gone. There was only one frustration left for leaving the excellent Soul Vacation hotel in Colva, it was not clear where and why, and even more expensive.
But it was only our first day in Vagator and we have not yet found the passage to the beach in Chapor. Though that's a whole other story...
And later we found perhaps the main attraction of Vagator beach - the head of the god Vishnu and the sea turtle carved from stone. These figurines were carved in the 60s by some kind of hippie Dutch sculptor and they have become a local landmark. True, the nearby shaker decided that earnings were more important and laid a path with tiles up to the turtle itself, placing his own fence next to it. But let the locals deal with it.. .
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