Spent the last two days in the beautiful capital city Panaji and visited the old capital, Old Goa for an afternoon. The Portuguese influence is amazing, Panaji is like a little European city with small streets and beautiful old houses and lots of churches. The city is pretty mellow and quite small so mostly just walking around and then eating delicious Goan food. We took the bus to Old Goa today where there are some crazy huge cathedrals from when the Portuguese had their capital there and it is super quiet with lots of huge palm trees and not much going on. Again it was pretty much walk around, check out some churches and then eat awesome food. Goa really feels different form the rest of India, especially the parts of India where I have been traveling. There is tons of cheap alcohol and you can get beef and pork which I had never seen on a menu before. Everything is super chilled out and for some reason I am reminded of Cuba back in the day, I think its because the women all where these beautiful floral fifties dresses and all the palm trees. The weather has been really nice so I am looking forward to coming back to the beaches after Hampi.
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