We started the day with breakfast at Café Del Mar. Palolem is a different beach in the morning - quiet and peaceful. 
We spend sometime in the water and then decided to explore a bit.
There are many beach hut accommodations built on the various hillocks at Palolem. We climbed these various places to catch the view from these heights. It was spectacular.
We also found that there was another very small and rocky beach known as Columb which was separated from Palolem by rocks.
In fact, if we would not have read the sign boards of various accommodations set up there, we would not have realized that this was different from Palolem. This area had a lot of influence of yoga with banners giving details of yoga classes and yoga centres all throughout the stretch.
The accommodation here is expensive because of the height and view it offers thereof.
There are many locals offering boat rides at Palolem. They charge separately for a dolphin trip and a sunset trip and many others. We negotiated with a guy named Umesh and got a boat trip for 250 Rs just for the two of us and we saw dolphins, two beaches – butterfly and honeymoon, a fishing boat collecting its catch for the day for that much. Umesh had not been getting any clients since quite some time and so was happy to get us on board.
Umesh had his two sons with us on the boat. He used to work on a fishing boat in Colaba which used to stay in the seas for days to catch fish. We saw people scrapping clams off the surface of the rocks and Umesh told us that the meat of clams makes a very nice spicy goan dish.
The ride was a memorable one and when we gave money to Umesh, he was sort of overwhelmed. He was a genuine man I felt and prayed that he makes good money for his business.
Once on the shore, it was low tide and I saw some beautiful shells on the wet sand. I collected I don’t know how many of them. It was sunset by then and as the sun disappeared we realized that we were approaching the end of our trip.
We needed to go to an ATM approximately 3 kms from the beach to withdraw money to pay up Café Del Mar the next day. We went to ask Blaise if a transport could be arranged and he was sitting with this Brit guy – Gary who offered us his bike just like that.
We were amazed by his gesture which made things so easy for us. When we came back, Gary and his friend Raffus were chilling with Blaise and they asked us to join them. In no time, we were discussing topics ranging from politics to economics to defense to what not.
Gary had traveled almost all of India on his bike. He now has a house in Palolem and is planning to move to India for good. He had traveled 94 countries and was 35 years old. It was amazing how complete strangers became buddies in Goa.
We spend sometime in the water and then decided to explore a bit.
There are many beach hut accommodations built on the various hillocks at Palolem. We climbed these various places to catch the view from these heights. It was spectacular.
We also found that there was another very small and rocky beach known as Columb which was separated from Palolem by rocks.In fact, if we would not have read the sign boards of various accommodations set up there, we would not have realized that this was different from Palolem. This area had a lot of influence of yoga with banners giving details of yoga classes and yoga centres all throughout the stretch.
The accommodation here is expensive because of the height and view it offers thereof.
There are many locals offering boat rides at Palolem. They charge separately for a dolphin trip and a sunset trip and many others. We negotiated with a guy named Umesh and got a boat trip for 250 Rs just for the two of us and we saw dolphins, two beaches – butterfly and honeymoon, a fishing boat collecting its catch for the day for that much. Umesh had not been getting any clients since quite some time and so was happy to get us on board.
Umesh had his two sons with us on the boat. He used to work on a fishing boat in Colaba which used to stay in the seas for days to catch fish. We saw people scrapping clams off the surface of the rocks and Umesh told us that the meat of clams makes a very nice spicy goan dish.
The ride was a memorable one and when we gave money to Umesh, he was sort of overwhelmed. He was a genuine man I felt and prayed that he makes good money for his business.
Once on the shore, it was low tide and I saw some beautiful shells on the wet sand. I collected I don’t know how many of them. It was sunset by then and as the sun disappeared we realized that we were approaching the end of our trip.We needed to go to an ATM approximately 3 kms from the beach to withdraw money to pay up Café Del Mar the next day. We went to ask Blaise if a transport could be arranged and he was sitting with this Brit guy – Gary who offered us his bike just like that.
We were amazed by his gesture which made things so easy for us. When we came back, Gary and his friend Raffus were chilling with Blaise and they asked us to join them. In no time, we were discussing topics ranging from politics to economics to defense to what not.
Gary had traveled almost all of India on his bike. He now has a house in Palolem and is planning to move to India for good. He had traveled 94 countries and was 35 years old. It was amazing how complete strangers became buddies in Goa.
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