Кавелоссим - хороший пляжный поселок в грязноватой стране Cavelossim - a nice beach village in a dirty country

We rested in this village on 27.01-8.02. 15. In Cavelossim, everything is concentrated along the main road leading to Colva. It can be walked from end to end in 7-10 minutes. leisurely step. There are a lot of shops, including 4 supermarkets - the biggest one is D'MELLO in the basement near the northern end of the village. There is also a pharmacy. About 100 meters from this supermarket to the south there will be several vegetable stalls. When you walk along Cavelossim, near each store, merchants invite you inside. You have to answer "No, you don't". Say "later" - tomorrow they will pester with tripled force. Prices are overpriced by 3-4 times. So a cashmere scarf with an initial price of 800-1000 rupees. bought for 300 rupees. T-shirt 500 rupees - bought 150 rupees. The dollar exchange rate is 61... 62 rupees. Prices in Cavelossim Watermelon (2 kg) - 80 rupees. (not very tasty); Pineapple (medium) - 50 rupees; Tomatoes (1 kg) - 20-40 rupees. ; Bananas (16 pcs. ) - 40-60 rupees; Sliced ​ ​ bread 0.3 kg - 20-23 rupees. Juice in a package - 80-100 rupees. (1l). Rum Old Monk - 36 rupees. (0.18 l), 160 rupees. (0.75l) Brandy Honey bee – 160 rupees (0.75 l)Kingfisher beer 5% - 60 rupees (0.65 l) Dry red wine Madera 12% (this is not fortified Madera at all) - 299 rupees. (0.75 l) Wine Port 14% (0.75 l) - 85... 199 rupees. depending on year of manufacture and manufacturer. Interestingly, the prices for drinks and alcohol are stamped on the bottles at the manufacturer. If you go to the center of the village from the beach (i. e. to the north) along an asphalt road (by the way, it is rather narrow, without sidewalks and it is rather unpleasant to walk along it, especially when a local regular bus is driving), then behind the Luisa by the sea shopping gallery ”, approximately opposite the entrance to the Hotel Dona Sylva, on the right there will be an asphalt branch, along which you can reach the Sal River. There, literally next to the main street, there are 5 restaurants (there is another one further to the river), many shops and 2 minimarkets. There are mosquitoes everywhere in the village - we were bitten on the beach, in the restaurant, and at the hotel reception. Clouds of mosquitoes are not visible, but they bite everywhere. To the beach from the center of the village go about 1000 m, go 12-15 minutes. The shortest way to the beach is through a gap in the barbed wire at the beginning of the Luisa by the sea shopping arcade and then through a wasteland on private property. True, the break is sometimes closed with branches. You can go south along the asphalted main street, and then along the asphalt to the right almost to the beach through the shopping arcade with annoying merchants. On the beach 14 NIS - more expensive to the north (closer to 4 * hotels Dona Sylva and Radisson Blu). The nuance is that until you get tanned and become familiar, merchants will cling to you everywhere, and in shek will demand 400-600 rupees for sunbeds. You can stay in a shek for 1 bottle of sealed water bought in it - 30 rupees. But the next day they demanded that we pay 600 rupees. , or dined in shek - then we just went to another. They demand money or dine only in the morning, in the evening you can lie on sunbeds of any shek for free. The stories in the reviews of tourists about which shek is better to eat are surprising. There is no running water in the shek, the cooks do not really wash their hands, the dishes are washed together with the fish, in the same bowl of muddy water... We ate at several restaurants opposite the Dona Sylva hotel and did not have stomach problems (although they also add to the bill there ). Vacationers on the beach are middle-aged and elderly people. There are a small number of small children. There are few Indians and they appear mainly on weekends or in the evening. During our vacation, the air temperature ranged from 28 (at 9-00) to 32-33 degrees C at 14-00, Water in the morning 27.5, in the evening 29 degrees C. If you walk along the beach to the south, then in 40 minutes. you can walk to the end of Mabor beach and the bay into which the Sal river flows - there are a lot of crabs, cormorants and black herons. In the north, in about 1 hour, along an almost deserted beach, you can walk to the Ramada Caravelle hotel, U Silvio cafe and a water entertainment center. It is very unpleasant that on the Cavelossima beach you are constantly pestered by: merchants (hats, drums, glasses, shells, beads, etc. ), masseurs, beggars, tattoo artists, etc. Unconditional dignity - in 12 days. we have never seen cows and, accordingly, their excrement either in the village or on the beach. Although there are more than enough dogs on the beach. The beach is very wide - at low tide about 70 m. Along the beach there are yellow-red or red flags (they say, if you drown, then we are not to blame). During the time we were resting there, no one drowned, and did not even try, because the waves do not drag them into the ocean, but, on the contrary, they carry them ashore. There are 3 lifeguard posts and a rescue jeep drives along the beach all the time and a policeman walks. Behind the last, if you go south, Seaway's beach shake, there is a water entertainment center. Excursions. You can ride them yourself by hiring a local taxi driver. 1. It is quite interesting to drive along the beaches (Palolem, where it is interesting to ride a boat and Cola), temples (Shantadurga temple, a temple near Cola beach) and a fort (Cabo de Rama). Taxi drivers ask $50/car for such a 6-hour trip, and they agree for $40-45.2. Trip: waterfall, riding and bathing with elephants, spice garden, Old Goa (you can either go with a guide who finds customers on the beach for $ 40 / person or with a taxi driver for $ 40 / car). But no one liked her - I can not recommend her. 3. Very interesting, but two-day and expensive ($190/person) excursion to Hampi. If you have any questions - write to sk_lora@ukr. net, I will answer. In general, from Goa, there were mixed impressions. Dirty; mosquitoes constantly gnaw; unpleasant local population, which is constantly trying to deceive; muddy water in a troubled ocean. An annoying problem with sunbeds on the beach, and even annoying beach vendors. That is, it is difficult to relax here. On the other hand: a very warm ocean, beautiful nature and interesting temples. Alexander.