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Here are some exciting places
that you could check out.
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Located
at Loutolim, 10-km from Margao, ancestral Goa is a mock
up village dating back a century. Built in a verdant
hillside, a guided trek takes one down the Goan memory
lane. Amidst a variety of rare wild flowers and mushrooms,
a variety of exquisite insects, mushrooms and birds
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A species of frogs, now almost extinct, which was once
a Goan delicacy, might also hop out along the trail.
A National Landmark captures Sant Mirabai singing devoutly
to the Almighty strumming on her ektara and measuring
14 metres by 5 metres.
This monolith was single-handedly chiseled by the artist
Maendra Jocelino Araujo Alavres . Sculpted in Greco-Roman
style from a vast expanse of laterite stone in August
1994 at Loutolim, Goa, in a record time of 30 days.
This work has been cited in the Limca Book of Records
as the Longest Laterite Sculpture in India. |
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On
the border of Karnataka and Goa, the Dudhsagar Falls
drop to a spectacular 600m. Believed to be amongst the
highest falls in the country, these magnificent falls
are located in a blissful tropical jungle with crisscrossing
streams.
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pouring across the Deccan plateau, the headwaters of the
Mandovi River form a foaming torrent that fans into three
streams, then cascades down a near-vertical cliff face
into a deep green pool. Overlooking a steep, crescent-shaped
head of a valley carpeted with pristine tropical forest,
Dudhsagar is set amid breath taking scenery that is only
accessible on foot or by jeep. The old Vasco Castle Rock
Railway actually passes over the falls on an old stone
viaduct, but has been closed for the past three years
while track conversion work is carried out. |
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