Gaga for GOA
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| Arambol beach, Goa |
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| The trail to the beach from my hut. |
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| I came to Arambol to do a yoga course at the Himayalan Iyengar Yoga Centre. This is one of their huts, which I booked straight away for a week so that I could stay for the duration of my course. On the first night that I was there, someone tried to break in. I woke up and yelled, so they took off. I later found out that they broke into the office of the yoga school. Being a frugal backpacker, I decided I should just stick it out in the hut because I'd already paid for a week. After my second night and barely any sleep, I met Brittany (an Australian girl from the next hut) who wanted to ditch her hut as well and told me about the break in at the office. I guess everything happens for a reason - we went to find new accommodation that day and have been travelling together ever since! |
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| Enjoying the sunset with the cows :) |
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| Delicious onion and potato paratha and an ice coffee Rs 85 ($1.50 CAD) |
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| This is one of the few pictures I have of my yoga course in arambol. We spent 5 days doing iyengar yoga from 9am-12pm. Looking back, I wish I'd stayed another week at least. Leo Cuda is a fantastic teacher, by far one of my favourites! |
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| My teacher, Leo, doing his thing. |
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| Arambol beach |
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| Sweet Water! A small lake hidden near the end of Arambol beach. |
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| Past sweet water, there's a path that leads to a place with mud with ayurvedic properties. So we found it and covered ourselves with it! |
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| Brittany and I with our freeee Ayurvedic mud masks :) |
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| This Indian man showed us all up. He covered his entire body in mud and then laid in the small waterfall to rinse himself off. |
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| View of sweet water and the ocean from the path. |
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| My new home sweet home at Ivon's guesthouse. |
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| The view from my room at Ivan's - one minute walk from the beach. |
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| So the men in India, specifically on the beach, like to take pictures of woman, specifically foreign woman. They usually do it in a way that they think is discreet, but is distastefully obvious. One of the men in this picture came up and asked me if he could take a picture with me and at first I said "No". He asked me again, "Just one!" he said, so I made it clear to him that I would just because he asked me to. Once we took one photo, all of his friends started asking me for one as well. Naturally I needed to get a picture of all these hooligans for myself. Of course they just laughed when I told them they had to give me Rs 50 for it! |
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| Olly (UK), Brittany (AUS), Richard (AUS), Ed (UK), Corrie (AUS) Drinks! Celebrating the end of our yoga course and our last night in Goa. |
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| Olly, Brit and I |
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| Beach beers with Brit and Richard :) |
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| Brit, Ed, Olly and IThe commonwealth crew paying respect to Samanth(a), where the three Brits were staying :) |
