You are here » Home
:
Goa Beaches :
Anjuna
Goa Beach
ANJUNA GOA BEACH
Anjuna, 18 kms from Panaji is a popular beach area
adjacent to Chapora fort- it was the haunt of the flower generation in the
sixties - and is still popular with the younger generation. In Anjuna there
is magnificent Albuquerque mansion built in 1920, flanked by octagonal
towers and attractive Mangalore tiled-roof.
The Anjuna band plays for the beach party at night. Palm trees stand
motionless in the warm air. To the east is a mountain. If you want to return
to civilization, climb the mountain to get to Baga where you can catch a
ferry out.This is the Goa Freak capital of the World.
Anjuna
becomes a fair of colors. Lines of vehicles full of tourists start virtually
raising clouds of dust in this area. Anjuna attracts a weird and wonderful
collection of over monks, defiant ex-hippies, gentle lunatics, artists,
artisans, seers, searchers, sybarites and itinerant expatriates who normally
wouldn't be seen out of the organic confines of their health-food emporia in
San Francisco or London.
Full moon, when the infamous parties
take place, is a particularly good time to be here if you want to indulge in
bacchanalian delights. Only a Brit would think about raving about the main
beach, but it's worth the walk to the small, protected sliver of sand at
South Anjuna where the area's long-term house-renters tend to gather.
Home