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Beaches

India Photos left to right: little Goa tourist bungalows around little beaches; a more traditional use of beaches in India's south; a typically wide and busy central Goa beach hosting all sorts of life forms and plenty of monstrous hotels.

Goa has now succumbed to massed charter flights, importing 1.5 million packaged people a year and cramming them into hundreds of cement blocks adjacent to what used to be fine beaches.
Calangute, Goa's core, is India's version of Torremolinos, a bustling style-free zone, while Palolem beach is smaller but not a lot better. Isolated pockets of peace and harmony can be found in central Goa - at a price - but for solitude head north to the Chapora River area where Goa crowds and concrete thin out and beaches grow.
Anjuna beach is still raving and colourful though frantic with hippie action [if that's not an oxymoron], while Morjim [aka Turtle] beach is more tranquil, Mandrem is eerily quiet and Querim in the far north of Goa is positively deserted, apart from the odd hut, hammock and itinerant ice-cream boy.

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