Goa Holiday India

With the majority of the population being Hindu, Goa has scores of festivals celebrated all around the year. The festivals and Goa Holiday India are celebrated through out the year. Most of the Goan festivals are Jatras (feasts) of the local or family deity celebrated at the temple, called Devasthan. There is gala affair in the temple complex with thousands of devotees taking part in the colorful celebrations and the palakhi or palanquin procession.

The long period of Portuguese colonisation, has given unique Goan character to the Hindu festivals and are celebrated in distinctive and stylish elegance. Most of the Hindu, Christian and other religious festivals are celebrated in the same manner as around India, but with a Goan flavour. Mainly celebrated Hindu festivals, by the Goans are Ganesh Chathurti, Gudi Padwa, Diwali, Dassra (Dussehra), Holi, Rakshabandhan, Ramnavmi and Krishnajanmashtami.

Goa's best-known feature is its lovely languorous golden beaches that stretch across the 60 miles (100 kms) long coastline. While, some of them are well prepared for tourists and appointed with every facility, be it hotels and resorts, beach shacks and small restaurants serving delicious but affordable food, or beach bazaars with colorful balloons, the others are sandy and isolated retreats perfect for unwinding. Travel to Goa and spend your holiday in Goa and experience India at its best.

Calangute Beach : This beach is described as 'The queen of Indian Beaches', promises a day of complete relaxation, and an opportunity to stretch in the endless sand, with the clear water of the sea proving music to the ears.

Baga Beach : The beach, apart from providing the ultimate experience in relaxation, is about a distance of 7 kms from Panaji.

Dauna Beach : Holiday packages for Goa, another beautiful beach in holiday to Goa, the Dauna beach, is an ideal place to sunbathe and contemplate on the beauties of nature.

Arambol Beach : Arambol Beach (Harmal) is one of Goa's more remote beaches. The seashore is beautiful and the village is quite and friendly with just a few hundred locals. This main beach is good place to swim.

Palolem Beach : Holiday packages for Goa, Palolem Beach is probably Goa's most beautiful and idyllic beach. A shady rim of coconut palms fringes the sweeping crescent of white sand and the whole beach is hemmed in at either end by rocky crags. Palolem Village is nestled in the palms back from the beach and the nearest town is Chaudi.

Anjuna : Also known as the freak capital of the world, Anjuna beach is just the right place for lazing holidaymakers. The place comes alive with its ever-famous full-moon parties and the Wednesday flea market to take one on to a trance trip. The beach is most popular among the local populace who love its 20-km-long virgin white sands, fringed and sun drenched.

Panaji : The official capital of Goa is also one of India's smallest and most charming state capitals. Also called Panjim during the time of Portugese, it was one of their principal cities along with Vellah and Margao. The city is charming and the colonial effect is evident in the city landscape. In Panaji, you must visit the church dedicated to our Lady of Immaculate Conception, and the Chapel of St. Sebastian. The Goa State Museum, the Secretariat, the statue of Abbe Faria in the capital is a must see for lovers of art. Avail our Goa Holiday Package and enjoy a memorable Holiday to Goa