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Hippies In Goa : A Dummy’s guide  to being a hippie in Goa Beach Lovers  ·  Heritage & Culture  ·  Offbeat  ·  Travel Guides & Trivia   Tags:  Goa  ·  off beat Facebook Google+   Twitter GOA! Part of the Hippie Trail of the world, Goa is on every travelers’ list for the sense of peace and euphoria that it offers. The ultimate party lovers paradise, the haven where parties only start, but end only when you walk out – where on one side you can find peace and tranquility, and on the other, all the noise and fun. Goa – A Hippie Paradise ( source ) Music wafts with the ocean breeze, and takes center-stage in the celebrations that define and make Goa. If you want to enjoy Goa for all it is, this guide to Goa will take you around in the best way possible. Let’s think the way a hippie would, and the next time people ask you about your travels to Goa, a slight smile will quietly escape the corner of your ...

https://www.thegoavilla.com/goa/info/hippies-in-goa.html HIPPIE IN GOA The alternative way of life inspired by ideas of the peace, love and travel, hippies have deep impact on world culture. Goa is the one of the few places where old hippies continue to live and collect the sunshine. The first hippies arrived to Goa at the end of the 60th of the last century and stayed for a long time on the beaches of Anjuna, Vagator and Baga that have fascinated them. Goa attracted young people with the cultural isolation, beauty of the tropical nature and the atmosphere of spirituality reigning there. They felt free, released from fetters of conservative morals of old Europe. At first the hippie tourism in Goa was limited to several groups of the young people playing music and smoking a pot round the fire on a beach. The population of Goa remained if not indifferent, then slightly curious to “naked white golden-haired people on a beach”, according to an old Goan from Vagator. The...

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Straddling a Portuguese past and a globalised present, food remains Goa’s top holiday attraction In a flash, Chef Sarita answers a question that has been plaguing me for years. I have always wondered why some Goan dishes, particularly vindaloos, never taste like they do in Goa when we try to make them at home. “Coconut vinegar,” she says, with a beatific smile. Coconut vinegar, or toddy vinegar, is the souring agent in vindaloo instead of the regular vinegar. And it makes all the difference. I used to think there was some secret spice that Goans used in their food, which is why I signed up for the Cuisine Classica Goan cooking class with Chef Sarita at Tempero, the Goan restaurant at the ITC Grand Goa on Arossim Beach. Built to resemble an old Goan mansion, with mosaic flooring, mother-of-pearl shells in the windows and old-style furniture, the restaurant’s exhaustive local menu includes Catholic Goan dishes but during the cookout, I also learn about Goa’s Saraswat Brahmin cui...

There is an old, ancient well in the Mhamai Kamat House?a rambling, 200-year-old Hindu upper caste family home in the heart of Panjim?located right across the Abbe Faria statue in the city square. I know this not because I am familiar with Panjim and its heritage structures, but because I have a walking tour app of the city on my phone. The same app, Panjim 175, tells me that the highly influential Mhamai family were traders who sold everything "from slaves to socks" and wielded tremendous financial control over the state of Estado da India or the Portuguese State of India. Viceroys could not overlook their demands and the Mhamais were able to get the colonial state to overturn bans on Hindu practices, including the establishment of Mahalaxmi Temple which reinstated Hinduism, once decimated by Portuguese rulers who had adopted a policy of religious and racial intolerance in the 18th century. The palatial house?with yellow-and-white Latinate facade and old-school Konkani inte...

And the award for Man of the Year goes to Formalin in Goa Who should be chosen as Man of the Year is often a cause of a big debate and excitement but this year the chosen one is a certainty, as there is no second choice. Sir Formalin’s name is on every Goan’s tongue, and inside every Goan’s mind and heart. Nothing fishy about this! For six months now Goans have been living in fear of Mr Formalin, even more afraid of him than Big Brother, and praying to the Almighty for a miracle to end this daily 24-hour nightmare. The statements and counter-statements of the government have been in excess, and unfortunately now it is impossible and too late for the people of Goa to trust this coalition government; however much the people of Goa may desire. Not only Rome but also trust cannot be built in a day. Sadly, both can be destroyed within twenty-four hours. On the day Iva Fernandes - Goa’s Joan of Arc - made her shattering historic announcement of formalin in fish brought into G...