Goa, India
16th - 24th February,
2001
True, whoever looks into this web site on your computer screen in home, at school or workplace will see first of all a simply exhibition of my holiday pictures. The screen is honest, it faithfully shows whatever I personally intended to exhibit onto it. But there is a face not shown to the world in this context. That is the real face of India. This what I show you is not the truth, my dearest visitor.
Behind my mask I give to you, the true face of India lays behind my attempt of expression; India can be realised only through your own experience. The author hopes that this web site could be your first map to India, until will you make your better one (just remember to avoid certain dishes out there...).
Bon voyage,
-JO
Goa's prime attraction; its perfect beaches. As Lonely Planet describes: "For 150 km, these stretch almost uninterrupted along the entire length of the coastline." Just come here and relax.
The great bull of Goa who waits his turn to block the main road.
Rickshaws! Cheaper than a taxi, but can cause feeling of anxious on a long road across Panaji. This is a thrill!
Watermelons. Try these when unsure about the local food and fed-up with soda drinks.
These guys assist you to arise your needs for the goods that you never imagined to buy. Give a penny to one of them and you will soon meet all his friends.
Browsing around the Municipal Market in Panaji.
Anjuna's Wednesday flea market. Everything there and the art of haggling. Magical Kashmir carpets, exotic instruments, more or less reliable motorcycles, deadly cheap spices, hippy carnets, Tibetan handicraft, nobel Nepalian paper and silk of course. "How much? I have a very good price for you my friend." First, they only charge you at least double, after staying there for a while you know how much to pay.
"The contacts of the senses with the sense objects give rise to the feelings of heat and cold, and pain and pleasure. They are transitory and impermanent. Therefore, learn to endure them. Because the calm person, who is not afflicted by these feelings and is steady in pain and pleasure, becomes fit for immortality."
Does that also go with the spicy
dishes? I thought masala dosa combined with basmatic rice,
garlic butter paan and spoiled down with milky lassi are
heaven itself.
Birds of prey waiting for their hunt? No, just another lazy day for the crows by Mandovi River.
A bunch of local kids give their attention to the white tourists. Relax guys, your colonist lords moved away some decades ago!
Water supplies guaranteed. These ladies
did not look like as they needed some help with their carriage.