We escaped to South Goa for some relaxing quieter beach times. Goa is mainly known for the hippie beach raves in bygone days but coming down here during the monsoon has been a good escape from the loud. We stayed in a hotel surrounded by lush vegetation and right between 2 beaches, Palolem and Patnem.
Palolem is the more touristy and the party beach of the two but still pretty quiet compared to North Goa and especially during monsoon season. The streets and beach are lined with restaurants, souvenir shops, and ladies who show you the road back to your cabana that conveniently goes by their shop.
We had Patnem all to ourselves with the occasional beach cow to keep us entertained. The water was refreshingly cool during a hot humid day of doing nothing and there was only 1 restaurant opened, coincidentally opened for the season the day we were there!
There are some spice farms in North Goa so we hired a car to take us to one. A 40 minute tour of Sahakari's 140+ acre farm of spices and cashews was quite impressive and very welcoming. Some fun facts:
Saffron is the most expensive spice, vanilla is second.
Bamboo is the tallest grass, banana tree is the second.
Banana trees produce only 1 bunch per life and then they are cut down
We mainly spent our days eating delicious seafood-based Indian and taking afternoon dips in the swimming pool. Goa has treated us well!
-Priscilla
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