Old Goa and Panjim

For those of you who follow my Facebook page, you may have seen that I was in Goa for two weeks in January and boy, what a holiday it was! If you haven't been there before, I absolutely recommend you go there once in your life! The people are amazing, the food is amazing, the colours, the smells, everything, I can't speak of it highly enough.

Anyway, enough of my gushing! I have a few blogposts to share with you over the next few days of the various things I documented whilst over there. First up is Old Goa and Panjim. Just a quick history lesson. ;) Old Goa was the first territory that was colonised by the Portuguese in the 17th Century. Panjim is the state capital of Goa and many of the buildings still retain Portuguese charm with faded colour washed walls and Catholic churches. 

This is The St Francis of Assisi Church in Old Goa

  

And this is inside another church on the other side of the road; The Basilica of Bom Jesus. Inside this church, there is a tomb of St Francis Xavier, whose remains are said to have never fully decomposed! Nice.

These next photos were taken around Panjim.

Before I went away, a work colleague said if I went to Panjim, I had to go the Mandovi Hotel because it was like something from years gone by. It was very art deco, as you can tell by this photo!

I love the colours in this photo.