Anjuna Beach 
Anjuna,
18 kms from Panaji is a popular beach area adjacent to Chapora fort- it was
the haunt of the flower generation in the sixties - and is still popular
with the younger generation. In Anjuna there is magnificent Albuquerque
mansion built in 1920, flanked by octagonal towers and attractive Mangalore
tiled-roof.
The Anjuna band plays for the beach party at night.
Palm trees stand motionless in the warm air. To the east is a mountain. If
you want to return to civilization, climb the mountain to get to Baga where
you can catch a ferry out.This is the Goa Freak capital of the World.
Anjuna becomes a fair of colors. Lines of vehicles full of tourists
start virtually raising clouds of dust in this area. Anjuna attracts a weird
and wonderful collection of over monks, defiant ex-hippies, gentle lunatics,
artists, artisans, seers, searchers, sybarites and itinerant expatriates who
normally wouldn't be seen out of the organic confines of their health-food
emporia in San Francisco or London.
Full moon, when the infamous
parties take place, is a particularly good time to be here if you want to
indulge in bacchanalian delights. Only a Brit would think about raving about
the main beach, but it's worth the walk to the small, protected sliver of
sand at South Anjuna where the area's long-term house-renters tend to
gather.
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