Calangute Beach

The shade of palm trees, bathes the Queen of Beaches-Calangute. Calangute seems to distort the local vernacular parola’Koli Gutti, “which means land of fishermen. Some people are linking Kalyangutti (village of art) or Konvallo-ghott (strong pit of the coconut palm), because the country is full of coconut trees. With the Portuguese word probably has distorted Calangute, and has remained until today. In Green semi-circle, the villages of Arpora-Nagoa, Saligao Candolim and contribute to the effort to enhance the divine beauty of Calangute. It is a agors fascinating (saline) to Agarvaddo, Maddavaddo is full of MADD (coconut trees), Dongorpur skirts, bottle-green stripes on the mound and Tivaivaddo beach. Gauravaddo lived in gaudds or milkmen ran dairies.

Calangute is a snapshot of travelers in the ’60s and early’70s. It was the hippies who discovered the pristine surroundings and blissful serenity and golden sands. Hippies also spread the word around and hordes of European tourists. Decades later, tourists still painfully along dusty roads, weather-beaten looking for that idyllic coastal Goa. On this lovely beach, Goans and tourists spend summers, bathing in the quiet solitude of the sea, sun and sand.