4 guys travelled to Goa

In Dec 2008, during the year end holidays, I and one of my friend Maruthu were thinking of holiday spots.
Goa is one of the hot vacation spot for the December to January season. So we decided quickly as we had only a week
ahead of our holidays.I asked my room mate Arulmaran to join us. So the count was three now. We decided to take my car. To fill in the other seat, I tried few people, they couldn't make it coz of short notice. I remembered about my fun loving friend Vasanth on the last day. I called him in the morning. He was in office, he confirmed his acceptance by lunch time and he joined us in the evening at MG road, Bangalore.

We all set, We left bangalore on 24th night around 7PM. Near Tumkur, we had our dinner and continued the drive.
We reached Shimoga around 3:00AM, we hit the hotel, I and Vasanth, came out for a walk on the empty roads after unloading our lugguages, and went to sleep. In the morning, got ready, had break fast in the Woodlands hotel,
got some towels, etc, and departed from there.
On the way, we just stopped by jog falls. It was dry in december. We had our lunch on the way and reached Karwar in the evening. We had our snacks in karwar. After snacks, asked vasanth to drive for a while, and slept for an hour or so. Then got back to driver seat, reached goa around 11PM on 25th Dec 2008, Christmas day. Refreshed and relaxed a bit and came out of the hotel.

Our Hotel was near to Calangute Beach and Baga Beach. Vasanth said that Baga beach is only 2kms away, we started walking to relax ourself after the long drive. we walked, walked, and walked, finally we reached Baga beach after 5 Kms approx. we were tired but after seeing the enthu of the crowd, we were back in action :)
We roamed across the streets near Baga beach, sat in a shack, had our dinner by seeing the stars in the sky :) No mood to go back to the hotel, finally we left around 5:00AM in the morning, just to give ourself some rest. Slept till 11AM, refreshed ourself and started the day on 26th.

As it was already 12:30, we went to a goan restaurant and had brunch. After couple of hours, we headed to Aguda Fort to remember the Dil Chahta hai days... We spent few hours over there. It was awesome to see the never ending water and the architecture of the fort. Clicked lot of snaps, help few groups to click the group snaps.

Came down to hotel, relaxed a bit. Filled in the petrol, and drove down to another beach, it was not that active as it darked. We had fish and fried rice in a near by restaurant and headed back to baga beach, which is active round the clock. We walked on the sides of the water. In the night, hearing the hissing sound and walking across the beach was awesome. we were hungry again, sat in a shack, had second round of dinner seeing the stars. On that day, we left little early, 3:00AM in the morning.
Next day, 27th, we went to Calangute Beach, played lots of water sports, Para Gliding, Bannana boat ride, Motor Boat, etc.The experience in the para gliding intrigued me to take pictures from the top while i am in the air. So, paid the money in the boat itself, went again for para gliding, took few cool snaps...

After all water sports, we went to a shack, played snooker and then had lunch. Came back to hotel, relaxed a bit, collected the cruise tickets that we booked in the morning, headed to the cruise. It was awesome, cool breeze, music, seeing the cultural shows on a cruise. Spent few hours, came back to baga beach, our usual destination to finish our day. we spent few hours walking on the streets, had dinner, and left around 1:00PM, as we need to leave goa on next day.

Next day morning, 28th, we thought of any possibility to spend few more days. Finally we made up our mind and literally pushed ourself out of the hotel after the breakfast.

My Travel Map for Bangalore - Goa
You can check out some of the photos in my flickr set goa