Blogs from Ponda, Goa, India, Asia

It is a beautiful temple with impressive architecture. The greenery around the temple and the serene settings makes it a perfect place for worship. It is the kind of place where anybody would like to visit and get blessings of goddess Shantadurga. It is one of best tourist attraction of Goa with mythological importance. I would highly recommend this place for the tourist to visit.... read more

The Goan shopkeeper kept his promise contrary to the 'sushegat' (sth like Take it easy in Goan) attitude so common here. He was actually up at 6 am and actually reproached us for turning up at 6.30 am. Four of us Rana, Vishal, Gayatri including me opted for the omelet, while others left ahead asking us to catch up. Relishing on the delicious omelet, little did we know of what the day had in store for us. Our tummies full, we got on our bikes and missed the first left turn which we were supposed to take for the Bondla wildlife sanctuary. It was claimed to be the roughest and most exciting terrain by those who did it. Four of us took the right instead for a longer route bypassing the sanctuary. Rana got the idea ... read more

Today we bike to Dudhsagar waterfalls, approx 55. km away. The first half of the trip is through the mining area and is quite boring. On the way we took a short break at our guide Chandan's house. Rana and Rajath brought some suger-cane out of somewhere and we gave a little exercise to our lazy teeth. We took a break every half an hour. Once we just laid ourselves on the road. At the other point, a huge spider was a subject to the constant clicks of 7 cameras. We were exhausted and surrendered ourselves to an hour long afternoon siesta in a beautiful temple on the way where we had our lunch. A light, cool breeze made it very difficult to get our sore asses back on the bike. But we still had a ... read more

Aufgrund gewisser gesundheitlicher komplikationen sind wir dieses wochenende quasi mehr oder weniger im camp geblieben. freitag und samstag waren wir am hausstrand in majorda. samstag abend hatten wir einen leichten regenschauer....es hat geschuettet ohne ende und ab ca 18.30 uhr war der strom weg...bis sonntag nachmittag, d.h. es war mal wieder candle light dinner angesagt. sonntag sind wir vormittags augebrochen richtung dudsaghar um uns den dortigen wasserfall anzuschauen. zuerst gings mit dem taxi los, dann haben wir uns zu siebt (+ fahrer und ein fuehrer) in einen jeep gequetscht und sind noch ca 45 minuten durch den dschungel gehuepft...mit diversen flussueberquerungen, die manchen leuten nasse fuesse beschert haben. letztendlich sind wir dann an einer art parkplatz angelangt und waren schon gleich mal begeistert von den affen. die letzten meter mussten wir dann zu fuss zurueck l ... read more