DAY 217 - COLVA BACH

217) MONDAY, 30 JANUARY 1978 : 0KMS. - COLVA BACH

We continued our route from MORJIM Beach by ferry crossing the Mandovi river to Panjim side,  heading out to the south  of GOA to MARGAO.  

Our next destination was MADRAS via MANGALORE.    We stopped to overnight at COLVA BEACH.

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DAY 216 - MORJIM BEACH

216) SUNDAY, 29 JANUARY 1978 : 0KMS. - MORJIM BEACH

 

Another day of relaxing  on MORJIM Beach, we were preparing to roll on the road again to the south tomorrow..

Village road of MORJIM - Photo : wikipedia.org / Bing images search

 

 

WIKIPEDIA : 

Morjim is a village situated in North Goa in the Pernem taluk on the north bank of the Chapora River estuary. It is home to a variety of birds and to the Olive ridley sea turtle. 

OlivE Ridley Sea Turtle - Native of Tmil Nadu, India - Photo : wikipedia.org / Bing images search

MORJIM has become known as "Little Russia" * due to the concentration of Russian expatriates living there. (* Not in year 1978 when we were there!).

DAY 215 - MORJIM BEACH

215) SATURDAY, 28 JANUARY 1978 : 0KMS. - MORJIM BEACH

 

We followed the locals to collect shellfish at the beach, together with some hippies. 

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It was quite fun,  as much as a sin to take lives of many shells. 

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DAY 214 - ARAMBOL BEACH

214) FRIDAY, 27 JANUARY 1978 : 0KMS. - ARAMBOL BEACH

 

I tried to make myself assimilated to the hippies and to get into conversation, exchanging our  travel stories with some hippies I met on the beach.  I learned that most of them having enough money to spend for their lives here.   They were able to make a pause or even left their jobs  for a great adventure time here.  

 

ARAMBOL Beach - Photo : wikipedia.org / Bing images search

Such a case was not so different from Tilo’s status that he stopped to work and left Germany for a while to search for  …….

DAY 213 - ARAMBOL BEACH

213) THURSDAY, 26 JANUARY 1978 : 0KMS. - ARAMBOL BEACH

 

I made up my mind to fly back home from MADRAS (CHENNAI) because it is a city with international flights departing to other international airports.  I began getting tired of a life, kept moving in the campervan, and I thought  that I had seen and experienced quite something in India.  Only one thing I felt sorry then was that  I  had to inevitably  miss to  visit the death place of the Lord Buddha in Kushinara.   

I had to blame myself that I did not earlier find out or seek for the direction to Kushinara  seriously.  I never knew that it was not far from ALAHABAD but I did not have much information. 

 
 

Anyhow,  I had to return  home, I was running out of pocket money as I had to keep enough amount to spend when I was back in Thailand while waiting to work again.

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My friend, Tilo would go on his way to the south of India and would not retrace our former routes.  The further routes would be down to the peninsular end and  then up north into PAKISTAN on his way back to Europe.