Anjuna Beach (अंजुना बीच) is located on the coast of the Arabian Sea along the village of the same name, located in North Goa (India). Party lovers who prefer noisy parties and active pastime come here. The resort life is seething here, and most of the coastal cafes and bars are open around the clock.
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| Anjuna Beach Goa |
It is not the most beautiful beach in India, nor is it the quietest. But it is one of the most colorful and surprising. A must visit if you pass through Goa. Its 13 square kilometers are usually crowded between the months of November and February, the best season to visit the region. And it is that Anjuna beach, located in the town with the same name, is one of the main tourist attractions in Goa.
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| Anjuna Beach Goa |
Anjuna Beach was also, at the time, a hippie paradise for hundreds of Westerners who emigrated from Australia, Europe or the United States to India and populated its streets, its beaches and its ashrams.
The Indian writer Gita Mehta offers us a very particular and ironic vision of those decades (especially the 60s), in her very interesting book De Ella Karma Cola:
Anjuna Beach in Goa is the dream of every anthropologist, the image of what people keep and carry with them until the bitter end, long after they have lost their passport, money, virginity, health and often, Sanity. There are those who persist clinging to a plastic baby bottle, two well-thumbed paperback thrillers, a packet of American detergent or a hat to go to the opera. It is an extraordinary collection of articles handled and transported five, eight or ten thousand times around the face of the Earth, which expose for sale on the sand of an Indian beach some absurd indigent foreigners.
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| Anjuna Beach Goa |
The rake was installed in a coconut palm grove almost fifty meters from the sea. At the entrance there was a sign in which the Municipal Corporation forbade going naked. In deference to him, and thus avoiding the risk of a fine, the men moved about in loincloths and the women had knotted cloth around their hips and chests. From time to time they took them off, and the Indians gawked at them with appreciative gestures. Anjuna Beach had become to the natives what crematoria were to foreigners: a place to watch others lose their dignity.
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| Anjuna Beach Goa |
Something remains today of all that. Anjuna beach is famous for its casual and multicultural hippie atmosphere, for its market, for the "good vibes" of the establishments that surround it, for the people from all over the world who can meet there...
For many it is a mystical environment, for others a real discovery and there are also those who prefer to shop around quickly and look for another place where they fit in better. What is certain is that your trip to India will not leave you indifferent.