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Goa, India
Goa, a state in India’s West region, is a former Portuguese colony with a rich history. It is 3,700 km² with a population of approximately 1.4 million. Goa has a unique mix of native and Portuguese cultures and architecture that attracts an estimated 2.5 million visitors each year (including about 400,000 foreign tourists).
Palolem Beach-a scenic beach in extreme south Goa with scenic rocks and islands off its shores. Good eating options. It is becoming pricey (by local standards) and getting a bit crowded, but still less crowded compared to other popular beaches.
Goa is a hub of tourism in India. From the 1960s, Goa has been attracting a steady flow of visitors — first the hippies and returning expat Goans, then the charter tourists (starting with the Germans in 1987), pilgrims visiting Catholic and Hindu shrines, those opting to settle in Goa as their home, people going for medical treatment, and a growing number of those who attend seminars and conferences in Goa.
Goa is visibly different from the rest of India, owing to Portuguese rule which isolated it from the rest of India for 451 years.
Palolem, south Goa
The gaunlet. Arambol, north Goa
There are many proprietors in Arambol there for the tourist season who come from Kashmir and Nepal. It’s their money making season.
Rice and duckweed
Cities:
- Panaji (Panjim, also referred to a Ponn’je in Konkani, and earlier called Pangim and Nova Goa during Portuguese rule) – the state capital
Goa also has a number of other smaller, charming and sometimes crowded towns such as those along the beach belt (Calangute, Candolim), and in the interior (Chaudi in Canacona, Sanvordem-Quepem, Bicholim, Pernem town, etc). Some of these are gateways to the nearby touristic areas. In addition, Goa has some nearly 350 villages, often scenic and each having a character of its own.
Local bus, Palolem
Getting there:
Goa can be reached by its lone airport (Dabolim), by train, and by the many buses connecting the state with cities in India (primarily Mumbai, Mangalore and Bangalore). If you are travelling from Mumbai or Pune, car travel would provide you a journey through breathtaking scenery of the Konkan area. Travel from Mangalore to Goa is through Konkan Rail, allowing you to see its breathtaking scenery, including the Doodh Sagar waterfalls.
Distance from Goa to various cities:
- Belgaum(154 km)
- Mangalore(305 km)
- Pune(450 km)
- Bangalore(592 km)
- Mumbai(593 km)
- Mysore(643 km)
- Hyderabad(747 km)
- Delhi(1912 km)
(All photos are courtesy of Happy Sleepy, travel info from WikiTravel)
India
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Palitana, Gujarat
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Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
All these beautiful travel photos from India are courtesy of Amre Ghiba
Uganda
The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the “Pearl of Africa”. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania.
The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, which is also shared by Kenya and Tanzania.
Photo courtesy of Tattooed JJ
Adalaj ni Vav
Adalaj is a small village off the highway from Udaipur to Ahmedabad. You can easily miss it while driving towards the capital of Gujarat. It will be a pity if you miss it, For Adalaj village has a hidden treasure in it. The treasure is a step well, locally called Vav. An elaborately carved, five stories deep well with rest places for the weary at all floors, this is certainly among the most beautiful specimen of local architecture.
The legend behind this well is no less interesting. It is said that the Vaghela King Veer Sinh was defeated and killed by Sultan Beghara in the fifteenth Century. He then asked for the hand of Veer Sinh’s widow in marriage. The crafty widow, Queen Rudabai, was obviously not interested. She asked for time to complete a step well she wanted to build in her departed husband’s memory before she married the Sultan. After waiting for 20 years for the queen to complete the well, an eager Sultan reiterated his demand. The Queen jumped into the well and committed Jauhar rather than marry the invader.
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Last year artist and photographer Kien Lam quit his job and bought a one-way plane ticket to London. Camera in hand he embarked on an epic backpacking journey around the world shooting over 6,000 photographs that he compiled in this lovely short video set to music by William Lam. Resisting… urge… to buy… plane tickets. Beautiful work. (via stellar, gizmodo)
(via the-joy-project)
Source: thisiscolossal.com
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