Anjuna 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.
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