GOA trip with my college Buddy

The journey of this trip was started like this.

One of my friend Shailesh that he spend our maximum period of life in Mumbai now he is moving to permanently for his home-town due to his personal business and other plans.

There for we arrange this beautiful trip in GOA.

This plan was done when we all were in college, but now it was going to be successful, where our few friends have got married. we have 3 more friends (Mohan, Dutta & Ashok Rathod) in this trip they are not going to join us due to some personal reason these 3 people were not going to join us.

Before starting any trip, It's very important to know a little about the place.

So something like this starts our journey.

At night time we had booked train ticket from Panvel to Karmali (Local station name) our train name is CST Mangalore Superfast Special (01133) whose timing was 11:25PM from panvel.

Me (Krishna) & Rakhi Reached the panvel station approx. 10:45 o'clock then Xavier come slowly-slowly all friends our come to the station But one person for whom we arranged this trip, Shailesh has not yet reached the station.

11 o'clock

11.10 o'clock

11.15 o'clock

11.20 o'clock

As the time was going ahead, we felt that this train was about to leave he arrived 05 minutes before the EXACT time and we catch the train.

And this is how our journey begins from panvel station to GOA.

We have taken a ticket in Sleeper compartment But there is an option while booking the ticket upgrade the ticket and luckily we all have our tickets upgrade, due to which all of us got tickets in AC compartment tickets.

Everyone was very happy to start this journey.

After reaching in a train, we all settled because 6 people got tickets at one compartment & 3 people together and 1 another place, something like this was our ticket  got in ac compartment. 

Next Day morning at 09:30 am we reached at Karmali station from where we have hired 2 taxis for our hotel After traveling for 1 hour we went to our hotel and check in at our hotel.

For few people this trip was the 1st time they went for GOA where they was going to face unpredictable things and enjoy this beautiful journey.

First of all we got fresh after reaching the hotel and after that we took a scotty from and went for Aguada Fort And on the way we stopped at a place from where we all sat in the boat and went out to see the dolphins.

While leaving, the wave was very high, due to which Rakhi got a little scared So we both came in another boat to from where we took the boat.

And our luck was so good because at the same time another boats had come where they had caught fish from the sea So we got the time to see that all the fish, who was caught by the fishermen. Among the rest of the fish, one fish is a little bigger, with whom we clicked the photo.

After a while our friends boat also come where they got to see dolphins And they were all happy too.

After the ride we immediately left for Aguada Fort and took some good photos plus great time spend over there (Just FYI Another thing is the entry fee of Rs.25 to go inside Aguada Fort Where you can go and spend whatever time).

After leaving Aguada Fort, we headed for Baga Beach but it took us some time to reached there After the sun set, Because of which we were not allowed to go under water.

But Yes, we got the chance to had a dinner at beach side & the food was very tasty, with foods we have some order for Breezier, red-bull and some people had cold drinks.

After 2 years with friends, we were going out and eating somewhere outside the home (due to covid pandemic). After eating from that we went for a walk for a while, which was very nice.

After a while we came to the hotel room and sat for a while then everyone went to sleep.

Next day our plan was for Old Goa

For which we booked the 2 car But, we got the car a little late, which is why our next day plan little late And after 12 o'clock we left for Old Goa and we reach to saw of the Basilica of Bom Jesus Church and we all got a chance to go inside because we reached at 1.30 PM and the church opened at 2 o'clock.

After Lockdown, the timing of Church's was taken from 2 am to 4 pm.

After visit we went for Baga Beach but before that have a proper lunch at the hotel.

After lunch, we reached the Baga Beach and people started enjoying themselves like Some are going in the water, some are sitting outside looking at the calm sea, some are clicking photos.

As soon as evening fell, we all again left for the hotel, after which we all got fresh and went out for shopping Because one of our friend Ashok Pal and his wife had to leave for Mumbai next day morning.

Where everyone has purchased something according to their own, bought cashew nuts, bag earrings and many more I got so busy shopping that we all did not even know about the time.

It was 11.30pm in the night and It was so late and even know the realize the time After shopping we all went to dinner and went to the restaurant where we ate this morning.

We had lunch at 4 o'clock and we started the dinner at 12 o'clock After finishing dinner we all headed towards the hotel.

It was very dark at places other than the market place.

And everyone's phones were switched off, only Rakhi & Jatin's phone was running where there was little charging left & giving direction to us for reaching the hotel.

Now in this night the way was getting very confusing for everyone 2-3 times we took the direction wrongly on Bucks of the Week network but that was also good for all of us because we were enjoying it even more By doing this we all went to the hotel.

Everyone was tired

After reaching the hotel, Rakhi and I went for sleep After taking some sleep and everyone got up again at 7 o'clock because Ashok's flight was morning, So Xavier, Shailesh and Govind got up to leave him.

Those people came after dropping Ashok and Pooja at the airport.

Day 3 our plan was to check out the hotel and go to Dudhsagar Waterfall, talking to local people, we came to know that Dudhsagar Waterfall is closed now.

So after the discussion, we planned to take 2 cabs and go to Madgaon and we will walk around the locality a bit. But due to non-availability of the cabs, we had to stop and stay at the hotel till 4 o'clock.

Few friends found out a lot but we could not find any cab but Lucky found a cab man who came to pick us & we all sit together and left for Madgaon while leaving, we requested him to visit some place.

And he's ready and he took us to White Church, Miramar Beach and one restaurant where we took some more time, whatever time we had, that work got done.

That's why we decided not to go to Madgaon, we will go to Karmali station and from that we will take a train to Panvel And we wiped the Karmali station, just as it started raining heavily for a while.

It felt good that we stayed for 3 days but we did not get rain.

All the memories were being recalled because from where we had left the train, we are going again towards our house by taking the train.

It was the first time where I have come very far with my friends with my life partner this moment won't come back I was also happy that everything happened and the time had come to finish this short trip.

And also a little sad, where tomorrow morning everyone will be busy again in their own lives And don't know when everyone will have to meet together now.

Because due to some issues we were not able to get along with everyone After a while I came to our train and on the next day morning at 8:30 we went to Panvel station.

So in this way our journey ended.

It is said that the past never comes again by robbing it, so whatever you have with you, enjoy it openly.

Thank you so much for reading this story & very all the best for success Shailesh Singh.