The dance parties on the beaches and the carnivals and festivals in Goa provide many occasions for party lovers to dance and have fun to their hearts content.

If its history and culture that interests you, Goa has many historic churches and colonial buildings. Panaji the capital of Goa has lots to offera tourist with an interest in history and architecture. The colonial monuments built by the Portuguese in Goa, make a fascinating tour. With fabulous beaches, cultural attractions and warm and friendly people, there can no better place than Goa for your Indian Holiday.

Tourism in Goa

Goa Carnival : Goa Carnival, as the name suggests, is exclusively celebrated in the Goa mostly by Christians. However, what is remarkable about the festival is that it refuses to be recognised as a religious event.Instead it is a symbol of Goan culture...

Churches of Goa : The churches of Goa are not just religious places where people come to offer their prayer, rather they are reminiscent of the era in the Goan history when Portuguese held sway of this small Indian state...

Sant Mirabai
Visitors can beamazed by the life like statue of Mirabai measuring 14 meters singing the devoted lyrics to the almighty and her eternal Lord strumming the ektara to her best. This wonderful monolith was created single handedly by MaendraJocelino Araujo and artistic style done in Greco-Roman.. Made of laterite stones in just a month one can see a tinge of Buddhist influence. But the kumkum on the forehead,the patti on her wrists and the parizona around her ankles gives the sculpture an Indian appeal. She can be seen garlanded onher neck with the ornament called Fullam made of flowers generally worn by the Goan Hindu women. A Precious lotus and a half-sun adds mystics to her posture. The sculpture is the longest latenite sculpture in india.

Goanese lifestyle
Apart from the beaches and the churches, Goa has a lot more to offer to its visitors. The plenty of rubber plantations, the fruit gardens, Goanese music and dance especially the music played with the violin, the guitar and the piano are the best. The typical hoses that resemble the Portuguese influence, the farmer's huts with the thatched structure,the common village market selling feni-the favourite local alcohol, spice yards with the paddy fields makes ita living paradise.

Goanese Handicraft
One of the prime attraction is the handicraft of the place. From the baked pottery tothe mahars making decorated bamboo and cane baskets with the hands as well as clay structures, sea shell crafts, terracota products, local garments are all unique, that adds importance to the place as an destination to visit for the tourist coming to India.