Kokan-Goa road-tripping!

When you are an engineer and worst to it, not by choice, then naturally you are a guitarist, a language learner, a photographer, an actor or a traveller for sure!
After literally three months of continuous exams,when you get those week offs, a getaway is must. But now you have to make your fellow sufferers agree for this!
So our plan was ready. We had to decide the dates. After considering everyone's convinience and struggling for permission from parents, we were ready for the roadtrip.
We loaded our car with lots and lots of snacks and kept our playlists ready for the journey!

This morning began with a girl who came out screaming of a toilet! It was because of a huge lizard, almost size of a forearm! I am not even exaggerating as the girl was me! So a house in a farm commonly pet these kind of reptile friends. After a morning walk through the palm trees we had our breakfast. Mangoes, of course, because it is Kokan and the summers!
We started from Trimbak for Kudal. Again the beautiful scenic views were accompanying us. As we had two photographers we stopped at many "perfect frames".
We reached Kudal by afternoon. This house had a mini swimming pool! What else would one ask for?
After an hour of "22 year olds being 5 year olds in the pool" we went out for lunch. It was again the type of canteen I mentioned above.
Kudal is a pretty town. The road to our house was roofed with a dome of trees and all green in daytime, but terror at night with no lights and no vehicles and no people!
In the evening, we decided to head to Sawantwadi. Sawantwadi is known for the traditional wooden toys. You can find pretty keychains, jute bags, kitchen sets and more such interesting stuff. We can call this whole town a souvenir shop.
We spent our evening at moti talav. The light reflection, the pond ,sunset and the clouds were a treat for photographers!
We sat there until we realised that we need to have dinner now. So we returned back to Kudal and stopped at chinese food joint. They took like forever to serve food which came out to be not so good…
We returned back home to find out that it was a power cut.
So we went to the terrace. Milky way was clearly visible because no citylights and less pollution. We just had to capture between the cloud gaps. There were some light photography experiments too.
Some of us were asleep by now. The awake ones ,we talked for whole night sitting on the rooftop till we could hear the morning azan!

We all were excited today. We planned for Goa. But it was so hot and humid, we were tempted to go to a resort nearby! All of us enjoyed swimming there for 3 hours straight!
There is this burger shop, trust me you will be amused by the taste. Good food and good company really gets you in a good mood.
We got ready for Goa now! It takes 1.5 hours from Kudal to Goa. Roads are good. A question of quarrel arouse when we realised one of us had to be sober though in Goa,as one had to drive way back. Till we decide who would that one be, we were already in Goa.
It was raining there. The "fenny" cyclone caused the sea to transform to its wild form! It seemed like each tide bought terror to the shore!
Keri beach is a less known peaceful beach with shore of approximately 750m. But when we reached there, it was just the high tides and untamed sea! Stormy sea was really frightening. It started raining so we had to rush back to our car.
We visited a church on the way. The evening lights made it look a really pretty!
It started getting dark. Hill rock restaurant and bar it was, for tonight. As it was a week day, restaurant was not very crowded or so. Good music and ambience. For non-vegetarians fish dishes is what I would suggest, but for vegetarians you dont get much variety.
We were full with just the starters and booze. And now we were enjoying our high to its best!
We started back home. We sang songs to the top of our voices. The one who was going to drive was totally sober. It was again a power cut. We slept early. It was an end of a good day!

Hungover heads woke up at 10 today!
Goa is not always about party and drinks. It is much more than that! Goa is about the open minded people. It is about the shopping treat, the colorful houses and some Portuguese architecture!
There is this fort named Reis Magos. A peaceful and well maintained monument. 
This fort stands from the period of Adil shah of Bijapur which was then defeated by Portuguese. For some years before abandoning it was used as jail.
this sea facing fort is indeed a less known but beautiful place.
At the fort they cost you 50 rs pp and student discount 25 rs pp. Extra charges for cameras.
We spent a whole afternoon on this fort. There is a small picture gallery on the fort which displays pictures of locan Goan life.
Now, we wanted to shop those bead earrings and fancy tops and Jack Daniel tshirts. So we headed towards calangute beach shopping streets. We took some gifts for our friends and searched for a good place for dinner. As this was a last evening of the trip we wanted a fancy place. We roamed in Tito's lane and finally chose Tasca bar and restaurant.
Fenny is a Goan local drink. Nice to try. Beer pints and vodka shots had no count!
After the drinks and dinner, we headed home. Vision was blurred and overflowing emotions,they oozed out of us.
We made memories.
The wrong lyrics, drunk calls,rants, some good some bad experiences
Next day the journey time swooped in between the laughs and incidents! Our next trip was planned on the back journey itself!
Stay tuned for the upcoming one😉