As our high energy trip was on its last day, we had to come back to Mumbai. Yes we were very optimistic getting a trip by train but as usual we were nowhere near a confirmed ticket. Searching through IRCTC aimlessly helped us this time & we got a train ticket at 21.30 at night, and that too confirmed😍😍😍. Now lets come back to our last day in Goa.
The day was kept for the most important thing namely water activities and never dying interest in Palolem beach. We start early and have an awesome breakfast at Britto's, Baga. I know all who know the place would already be 😋😋😋. I did post the pic for reference. Now after we were full and ready to carry on with the day we started exploring on the list of activities we wanted to do. Now as you get lot of unwanted faltu information from lot of people, I had come to know that it is very cheap which I disagreed then too but what to do when that person is your brother. Now, ofcourse all the activities were not possible so we chose parasailing out of the lot. It was seriously super fun & not funny like usual things prefer to happen to me. Now. the upselling of services happen when you are in mid-sea but like good smart people we escaped the drill.
We actually thought that we might not actually come here for a second time & lets try the bumper ride which was priced OK, I mean ₹600 for two is decent. And I had a plan to not get wet (don't give the looks, sometimes you just overthink). The bumper ride was actually super awesome and once the boat reaches mid sea, we are given an offer we can't refuse... He told us that he will give us another few minutes of ride and also take us to an island where lot of things happened and said that it would cost only ₹3000/- for two. How cost effective right?? We refused but as we could see we were kind of trapped mid-sea with not much choice (I don't know how to swim too, FYI). He asked us to quote a price, and thinking that we should quote something which he would refuse we quoted 1000 for two, that's like 33% of the original quote. To our surprise after a few minutes he agreed to the price, then we actually realised ki dal me kuch kala nhi, poori dal hi kali hai. He gave us 2-3 rounds in the sea & then showed us the island from approx a mile away, Dhoom ki shooting hui thi yahan madam. I only wanted to say aa pani k bahar dikhati hun tujhe shooting. That was not it, when near the sore they asked me to jump into the water which was neck deep, and on my refusal he pulled me down... Yay!!!
The day was kept for the most important thing namely water activities and never dying interest in Palolem beach. We start early and have an awesome breakfast at Britto's, Baga. I know all who know the place would already be 😋😋😋. I did post the pic for reference. Now after we were full and ready to carry on with the day we started exploring on the list of activities we wanted to do. Now as you get lot of unwanted faltu information from lot of people, I had come to know that it is very cheap which I disagreed then too but what to do when that person is your brother. Now, ofcourse all the activities were not possible so we chose parasailing out of the lot. It was seriously super fun & not funny like usual things prefer to happen to me. Now. the upselling of services happen when you are in mid-sea but like good smart people we escaped the drill.
We actually thought that we might not actually come here for a second time & lets try the bumper ride which was priced OK, I mean ₹600 for two is decent. And I had a plan to not get wet (don't give the looks, sometimes you just overthink). The bumper ride was actually super awesome and once the boat reaches mid sea, we are given an offer we can't refuse... He told us that he will give us another few minutes of ride and also take us to an island where lot of things happened and said that it would cost only ₹3000/- for two. How cost effective right?? We refused but as we could see we were kind of trapped mid-sea with not much choice (I don't know how to swim too, FYI). He asked us to quote a price, and thinking that we should quote something which he would refuse we quoted 1000 for two, that's like 33% of the original quote. To our surprise after a few minutes he agreed to the price, then we actually realised ki dal me kuch kala nhi, poori dal hi kali hai. He gave us 2-3 rounds in the sea & then showed us the island from approx a mile away, Dhoom ki shooting hui thi yahan madam. I only wanted to say aa pani k bahar dikhati hun tujhe shooting. That was not it, when near the sore they asked me to jump into the water which was neck deep, and on my refusal he pulled me down... Yay!!!
Well, the next leg or the last one as we say is the trip to Palolem. It was a trip on its own nevertheless, as all of you know our near miss to Palolem, we had planned it now. Our planned trips are also most unplanned it seems. We start for Palolem, with an auto ride to Panjim where the buses ply to Madgaon & from Madgaon there was a bus to Palolem. At 2 as we started we thought we would eat at Panjim as if we leave the auto getting another one will be problem. Oh yeah, the scooty was given back to the owner safe and sound. We reached Panjim at around 2.45 looking at that I was very confident we would reach the beach by 5. Another two hours is the max it should take, and we skipped food, to stick to the time. Madgaon by 3.30 was awesome and made me confident that it was happening, only to realise the bus plying from there was actually too local stopped as frequently as very 5 mins for 5 mins. So the journey became a long one, we even checked the sunset time and realised that day why it was ever written in the newspaper everyday at all. Just 1.5 km from the beach the bus took the longest halt possible, 20 min and that was it, alas. I got down and took a sunset photo as I thought again the sunset will never be seen at the beach by us. As we entered Palolem after that tiring 4 hrs journey I decided, I would just run with the luggage in hope to see the last glimpse. I did run & after I reached I literally wanted to kill every person who ever told me that it was a beautiful beach. It was as ordinary as possible and all the trouble taken for the last two days to reach there seemed so fruitless. The only thing I could think in those minutes was at least we did do this we did reach (so that we can tell everyone else also to go there)... kyunki Zindagi na milegi dobara.
Narrated fine. Carry on.
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