Goa – beach lovers paradise
Indias top tourist spot. Presant day goa is a peaceful place inhabited by with friendly and fun loving people. The mixed culture and nostalgic surroundings adds to the mystic values of the place. Goa interests both fun seeking and serious tourists. The series of well maintained beaches along the Goan costs clubbed with the well detailed ‘world heritage architecture’ including the Bom Jesus Basilica is just what any traveller wishes for.
Goa also has rich flora and fauna, owing to its location on the Western Ghats range, which are classified as a biodiversity hotspot. This luscious forest spans 1500Km2 and comprise more than 1/3rd of the sate of Goa. Goa has many famous National Parks, including the renowned Salim Ali bird sanctuary. Other wildlife sanctuaries include the Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, Molem Wildlife Sanctuary, Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary, Madei Wildlife Sanctuary, Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary Mahaveer Wildlife Sanctuaryand the Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary located on the island of Chorao.
Konkani is the traditional language of the place. But due to it’s western influences, english is also widely used and understood by most of the population. The Goan culture is an amalgam of all the colonial powers which influenced the land. Christians, Hindus and Muslims live in harmony and love.
Tourism is Goa’s primary industry: it handles 12 % of all foreign tourist arrivals in India. Goa has two main tourist seasons: in winter (with splendid climatical conditions) there are tourist from abroad mainly from Europe coming to Goa, in summer (it is then the rainy period) tourist from India come to spend holidays here. The civilisatory heritage from the time of the Portuguese colonisation makes Goa rather intimate to European or American people, not only because of the architecture style; more over, Goa represents a very nonproblematic symbiose of Christianity, Hinduism and Islam
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