South India Overland

Goa
(24/27 Jan 1997)

		Colva is Goa's longest beach with 12 miles of virgin white sand.
		The ramshakle beach restraunts offer some excellent seafood and the disco bars playing Goan Trance music provide entertainment well into the night.

Abandoned by the Potuguese in 1835 following a succession of plagues, Old Goa retains a number of interesting churches and buildings from it's colonial days.

An early start for the long day ahead as we travel via Hubli to Hospet (near the ruins of Hampi) our next port of call. We leave before dawn to beat Goa's traffic and by the time the sun rises have climbed up the Ghats to the Deccan Plateau.

This area must be famous for chillis as this was just one of the many places drying and sorting them out in the sun.

This shepherd passed by as we finished our lunch. We offered him our leftovers and he left with a grin on his face and a big bag of food in his hand.

A gypsy encampment was not something I had expected to see in these parts.

Madras, Mahabalipuram, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, Periyar, Cochin, Ooty, Mysore, Hampi, Bijapur, Aurangabad, Bombay.

If you have any comments or suggestions about these pages then drop us a line.

If you are interested in South Indian Food then why not visit Sue's Recipe Server, our other Web site.

North India & Nepal is the record of our overland journey from Dehli to Kathmandu during January 1998.

Exploring Vietnam is the record of a journey through Vietnam from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and beyond during March and April of 1999.