Goa Trip

There's something magical about Goa..its like God's own land-beautiful, unspoiled and enchanting. The place makes you fall in love with it and you are drawn in a love affair which stays with you lifelong and pulls you back again and again.So it was with great anticipation and enthusiasm that we seven bikers(we like to call ourself that) decided to undertake a trip to Goa. Fresh with the success of our Daman trip(which is approx 200 km from Mumbai) we geared up for Goa.Four bikes were made battle ready with carriers and all for conquering the 600 odd km between Mumbai and Goa, and so the adventure started.
We covered around 200 km between evening and midnight with many wrong turns and mis-communications, the chai , fags breaks, omellletes and the GHATS! Now ghats and the surrounding scenery look very beautiful in the daytime but in the night they look really intimidating, and with the heavy stream of vehicles from both the directions and the slopes going up and down it was not an easy task to cover ground in good time.Luckily I sat behind an excellent rider and that is my friend Abhishek(if you are reading this buddy i must give devil his due!!).So we stayed put for the night at a small town called Kheda in a guest house which had these beautiful mango trees and jungles extending behind it.The next day after a quick breakfast we started around 10:30 and covered one ghat after the other in good time(kudos to Lalit, Doctor and Manu!) .As i already mentioned the beauty of the western ghats is captivating and the greenery, the river twisting and turning with the road, the konkan trains moving along cutting through the mountains was a sight to behold.
We made it to Panjim at around 9 in the night covering some minor glitches faced by our very own Dr Vivek( glitches n Dr go hand in hand so i wont devote much space to that!!).The next morning we hit the Calangute beach and boy it was so cool!! The crowd was good, the beach spotlessly clean and the water inviting, infact me n Rohan made an instant pact to return there for a week after our placements then and there(remember it buddy?!)..After that we made a quick tour to Anjuna(where one of our more adventurous friend and my roommate Sanchit drove us on and on on the rocky outgrowths into the farthest point in the sea), then came Vagahtore and sunset on it.Anyone who's seen a sunset at a beach knows that its beauty is beyond description and for those who have not, please go for it!!Our dinner that day consisted of a American cuisine and why i mention this here is that the ambience, the personal touch, and the food was beyond compare and a lesson in hospitality to many Indian restraunts(Abhishek please dont snigger!). The night was spent sipping hot coffee on Calangute beach before dropping down like logs.
The next day was spent again in Calangute with Parasailing, jet skiing(yes guys yes we actually did that!!).. and getting tatoos done(i mean it was Goa right?!)...The night was spent cruising on river Mandovi..the music was sick (Himesh Reshamiya at his worst) but the cruise as such and Goa bathed in lights was amazing.
The final day we went to Fort Aguada, now the view and all was great again but somehow the heat plus the fact that most of us have seen forts of Rajasthan made most of us un-appreciative of the poor fort(i mean it was just a structure of walls!). The last item was the Candolim beach which is exclusively a foriegner's beach.By common consensus this was the best beach 'coz there was no crowd, only foreigners and the water and the waves were amazing(Rohan you missed out this one!) .The tanning we had on the trip was thanks to this beach. Lastly we had the most tasty lunch which was a Russian cuisine( and here a big thanks to Doctor for recomending it to us)..the food and the ambience was original Russian and the apple pie as the desert was heavenly(no dissents on this one)...The cuisines built deep holes in our pockets but let me assure you folks it was worth every penny. The trip back was as memorable for various reasons(wink wink!) and the trip itself will certainly be remembered by us for a long long time for the biking, the beaches the fun but mostly for the ambience and the feel of the place and also becoz I(and i would safely use the word WE) was in the company of such wonderful friends, it was their camaradrie which made the trip so wonderful ,enjoyble and fun filled. Guys hoping this love affair with Goa continues and we spend many such fun filled moments in Goa and many such destinations.Cheers!!!