Velha Goa, the Portuguese capital
6 stops · 2 km · ~3 h · start at 9:00, before the tour buses · 6 stops
- Basílica do Bom Jesus
- São Francisco de Assis
- Capela de Santa Catarina
- Sé Catedral
- Arco dos Vice-Reis
- Nossa Senhora do Rosário
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This interactive map of Goa (India) brings together 128 hand-picked places: 44 attractions, 37 restaurants, 23 cafés and 24 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
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6 stops · 2 km · ~3 h · start at 9:00, before the tour buses · 6 stops
6 stops · 3 km · ~4 h · start at 8:00 with the oven · 6 stops
6 stops · 18 km · ~6 h · start at 15:00 for the sunset · 6 stops
6 stops · 14 km · ~7 h · Saturday, start at 16:00 · 6 stops
6 stops · 40 km · ~8 h · by scooter, start at 8:30 · 6 stops
Igreja do Bom Jesus · Old Goa
The church that holds the body of St Francis Xavier, in bare laterite brick for four centuries.
Tip: The Exposition of the relics happens every ten years; outside that year the casket is seen up high, in the right-hand side chapel. Free entry, but cover shoulders and knees.
🚇 Karmali station (Konkan Railway) · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCatedral de Goa · Old Goa
The largest cathedral in Asia, with the Golden Bell you can hear across Velha Goa.
Tip: Of the two original towers only one is left: the other collapsed in 1776 and was never rebuilt. Free entry.
🚇 Karmali station (Konkan Railway) · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapIgreja e convento de São Francisco · Old Goa
Franciscan convent of 1661 with the most decorated interior in Velha Goa: gilded wood and Portuguese azulejos.
Tip: Right next door is the Archaeological Museum, which DOES charge separately: the church is free, the museum is not. Check each door.
🚇 Karmali station (Konkan Railway) · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCapela de Santa Catarina · Old Goa
The oldest chapel still standing in Velha Goa, raised to mark the taking of the city in 1510.
Tip: It sits off the tourist axis and is almost always empty: the quietest corner of the whole complex.
🚇 Karmali station (Konkan Railway) · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapIgreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário · Bainguinim
Manueline church of 1549 on the Monte Santo hill, looking out over the Mandovi river.
Tip: The climb almost nobody makes, and the best view of the Velha Goa complex. Ten minutes uphill from the Sé.
🚇 Karmali station (Konkan Railway) · 6 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapArco dos Vice-Reis · Old Goa
The gate the viceroys came through when they landed: what is left of the river entrance to the Portuguese capital.
Tip: It faces the river, not the road: to see it the way the viceroys did, walk down to the landing and turn around.
🚇 Karmali station (Konkan Railway) · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapForte de Aguada · Sinquerim
Portuguese fortress of 1612 on the cliff, built to hold off the Dutch and the Marathas.
Tip: The cistern sent fresh water up to the ships: hence the name, 'aguada'. Go at sunset, it faces west.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 14 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapAguada Lighthouse · Sinquerim
The 1864 Portuguese lighthouse crowning the fortress, one of the oldest in Asia.
Tip: Visible along the whole Sinquerim-Candolim stretch; the best frame is from Sinquerim beach late in the day.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 14 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapAguada Port and Jail Complex · Sinquerim
Goa's former central jail, inside the fort, reopened as a museum of memory.
Tip: It worked as a prison until 2015: the cells are visited exactly as they were left. The ticket is separate from the fort.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 15 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapChapora Fort · Dabhol Vaddo
Reddish walls on the headland between the Chapora river and the sea, looking out over both banks.
Tip: Nothing is left inside: you come for the view, not for the fort. Bring water, there is no shade on the climb.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 7 min walk
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Show on mapFortaleza dos Reis Magos · Reis Magos
A 1551 fort facing Panjim, restored as a cultural centre with exhibition rooms.
Tip: This is the fort that actually has something inside: exhibitions, clean toilets and the best view of Panjim from the far bank.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 7 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCabo de Rama fort · Cabo de Rama
A ruined fort on a southern cliff, with a chapel still in use and the sea below.
Tip: The chapel of Santo António is still open for worship inside the grounds. The cliff edge has no railing.
🚇 Balli station (Konkan Railway) · 30 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapFontainhas · Fontainhas
Panjim's Latin quarter: 19th-century Portuguese houses painted ochre, indigo and green, street by street.
Tip: The colour is not decoration: by tradition each house is repainted after the monsoon, and white was reserved for the churches.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 11 min walk
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Show on mapChapel of St. Sebastian · Fontainhas
The white chapel at the heart of Fontainhas, with the crucifix that came from the Inquisition in Velha Goa.
Tip: It opens rarely and for short hours; if it is shut, the square in front is still the best corner of the quarter.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 11 min walk
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Show on mapIgreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição · Fontainhas
The church with the zigzag staircase above Panjim, the first building that people arriving by river used to see.
Tip: The patron saint's feast falls on 8 December and fills the staircase with stalls and lights all week.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 15 min walk
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Show on mapपाळोळें दर्यावेळ · Palolem
The crescent bay of the south, palms right down to the sand and still water between two headlands.
Tip: Drishti Marine covers it from 7:00 to sunset: go in between the red and yellow flags, that is where the post is.
🚇 Canacona station (Konkan Railway) · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapAgonda Beach · Agonda
Three kilometres of open sand with no tall buildings, a turtle nesting area.
Tip: It is a turtle nesting beach: do not step into the fenced stretches. There is a Drishti lifeguard post.
🚇 Canacona station (Konkan Railway) · 16 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCola Beach · Cola
A freshwater lagoon separated from the sea by a bar of sand, hidden between two hills.
Tip: The last stretch down is a dirt track and gets difficult in the rain; by November it is dry. There are lifeguards.
🚇 Canacona station (Konkan Railway) · 22 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapगल्गिबगा बीच · Galgibaga
An olive ridley turtle nesting beach, with almost nothing built on it, at the far south.
Tip: It is protected as a nesting site: no bright lights and no music at night. Drishti covers it too.
🚇 Canacona station (Konkan Railway) · 11 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapColva Beach · Colva
The town beach of the south, with a promenade, stalls and the biggest Margao crowd at weekends.
Tip: It is the most crowded in the south and the one that reports the most currents: do not go in if the flag at the post is red.
🚇 Colva Beach stop · 2 min walk
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Show on mapCandolim Beach · Camotin Vaddo
The long stretch linking Sinquerim to Calangute, with rows of sunbeds and seasonal shacks.
Tip: The sunbeds belong to each shack and usually come with a minimum order: ask the rule before you sit down.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 7 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCalangute Beach · Naikawado
The busiest beach in Goa, the one they call the queen of beaches.
Tip: Heavy crowds and strong currents on some stretches: the Drishti post marks with flags where swimming is allowed.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 9 min walk
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Show on mapBaga Beach · Baga
The north end of Calangute, the epicentre of North Goa nightlife.
Tip: By day a family beach, by night a completely different place. Never go into the water after drinking.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapAnjuna Beach · Monteiro Vaddo
Black rock and sand, the beach that invented Goa's counterculture fame in the seventies.
Tip: On Wednesdays the flea market tips people onto the sand from midday: come early that day, or not at all.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 8 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapBig Vagator Beach · Dabhol Vaddo
The wide bay below Chapora fort, with the red cliffs behind.
Tip: From the southern point the whole fort stands out in silhouette: the classic Vagator shot.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 15 min walk
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Show on mapOzran Beach · Dehul Vaddo
The cove below Vagator, with the face of Shiva carved into the rock beside the water.
Tip: The carving sits at the north end of the cove and is covered at high tide: check the tide table before heading down.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapMorjim Turtle Beach · Tembwada
The Chapora river mouth and a turtle nesting area, with a long-standing Russian presence.
Tip: It is a protected nesting site: the fenced stretches are not crossed, not even at night.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapMandrem Beach · Junaswada
A creek running parallel to the sea, crossed by wooden walkways out to the sand.
Tip: One of the calmest in the north and it still has lifeguards: the combination that is hard to find in Goa.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 15 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapHarmal Beach · Girkar Wada
The hippie far north, with the freshwater lake behind the rocks and drums at sunset.
Tip: Walk north over the rocks: behind them the freshwater lake appears, warm and with no current.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 20 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapMiramar Beach · Miramar
Panjim's town beach, at the mouth of the Mandovi, where the city goes out walking.
Tip: IFFI programmes open-air screenings here between 20 and 28 November 2026.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 9 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapSalim Ali Bird Sanctuary · Penha de França
Mangrove on Chorão island, with a raised boardwalk and herons, kingfishers and crocodiles.
Tip: November starts the migratory bird season. You get in by the Ribandar-Chorão ferry, which is free.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 7 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapIlha de Divar · Goltim
A river island with no hotels, reachable only by ferry, with Portuguese houses and rice fields.
Tip: The ferry from Old Goa is free and takes your bike aboard: the cheapest and prettiest ride on the map.
🚇 Karmali station (Konkan Railway) · 10 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapMuseum of Goa · Pilerne Industrial Estate
Contemporary art museum in Pilerne set up by the sculptor Subodh Kerkar.
Tip: It has its own café and air conditioning: the best indoor plan in the north when the day turns impossible.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 10 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapHouses of Goa · Torda
Museum of Goan architecture in a boat-shaped building by Gerard da Cunha.
Tip: It explains exactly why the Fontainhas houses are those colours: come here before you walk the quarter.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 9 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapGoa Chitra museum · Cana
Ethnographic collection of Goan rural tools, carts and trades gathered by Victor Hugo Gomes.
Tip: Visits are guided and at fixed times: call ahead, there is not always a slot on the spot.
🚇 Old Bus Stand stop · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapAncestral Goa · Loutolim
An open-air reconstruction of a Goan village from a century ago, in Loutolim.
Tip: Here you see the baker's trade, the feni distiller's and the potter's set up exactly as they were.
🚇 Paolo bus station stop · 15 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapKala Academy · Campal
Goa's cultural centre, designed by Charles Correa, facing the Mandovi.
Tip: Between 20 and 28 November 2026 the IFFI masterclasses run here: the schedule goes up on iffigoa.org.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapMaquinez Palace · Panjim Bazaar
A historic Panjim hall, one of the film festival's screening venues.
Tip: During IFFI you need the delegate pass: single tickets are not sold at the door.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapSunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts · Mala
Art centre in a Portuguese house in Altinho, with exhibitions, talks and a courtyard café.
Tip: Entry is free and the back courtyard is one of the quietest corners in Panjim.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 17 min walk
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Show on mapSanta Monica Boat Jetty · Patto Colony
Panjim's jetty, where the sunset cruises down the Mandovi leave from.
Tip: The evening cruises leave with the sun low and last around an hour: buy the ticket at the jetty itself.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 9 min walk
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Show on mapम्हापसा · Tali Wada
The market town of the north, the real centre of Goan life away from the beach.
Tip: Friday is the day: the market spills into the streets and it is the most Goan market on this map.
🚇 Mapusa KTC Bus Stand stop · 4 min walk
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Show on mapСтарый гоа · Old Goa
What is left of the capital of the Portuguese State of India, today a cluster of churches among the palms.
Tip: The whole complex is walked in one morning. Come early: mid-morning the tour buses arrive and there is no room to move.
🚇 Karmali station (Konkan Railway) · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapमनोहर अंतर्राष्ट्रीय हवाईअड्डा · Shemeche Advan
North Goa's new international airport, opened at the far north of the state.
Tip: Goa has TWO airports and they are almost 60 km apart: check whether your flight leaves from GOX (Mopa) or GOI (Dabolim).
🚇 GOX Mopa Airport stop · 18 min walk
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Show on mapAeroporto de Dabolim · Bogmalo
Goa's historic airport, in the centre of the state, shared with the naval base.
Tip: It is a naval base as well as a civil airport: the runway and the military area are not photographed.
🚇 Dabolim station (train) · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapRitz Classic · Patto
Panjim's fish thali: curry, the day's fry, rice and sol kadhi on a steel tray.
Tip: Order the day's fish thali and not the à la carte menu: it is what the next table is eating and it costs half.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 2 min walk
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Show on mapViva Panjim · Fontainhas
A Goan dining room in a Fontainhas house, tables out in the lane and family recipes.
Tip: Try the sorpotel or the xacuti; they are the two dishes that best explain the Portuguese-Indian mix.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 11 min walk
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Show on mapRoute 66 · Fontainhas
Grill and Goan cooking right in Fontainhas, open late.
Tip: One of the few in Fontainhas still serving late when the rest of the quarter has already shut.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 10 min walk
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Show on mapGunpowder · Bairo Alto
South Indian cooking in an Assagao garden, inside the artists' compound.
Tip: Book ahead: the garden is small and in season it fills every night.
🚇 New Mapusa Bus Stand stop · 6 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapBomras · Marquis Vaddo
Burmese cooking in Candolim, an oddity that has been a Goa benchmark for years.
Tip: It is not Goan food and not North Indian: it is real Burmese, with fermented tea leaf and sour salads.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 10 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapThalassa Siolim · Kerem
Open-air Greek taverna above the river, known for the sunset and the sharing plates.
Tip: Book a river-view table for sunset hour: the inside ones go without a booking and it is not the same.
🚇 Badem Bus Stand stop · 19 min walk
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Show on mapAntares Restaurant & Beach Club · Dabhol Vaddo
Restaurant and beach club on the Vagator cliff, with the sea right below.
Tip: It is one of the seasonal ones: by November it is running, but call to confirm out of season.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 3 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapHosa · Vadi
South Indian cooking reworked, in Siolim, with a cocktail list built on local ingredients.
Tip: The cocktails use feni and Ponda spices: the easiest way to try feni properly served.
🚇 Badem Bus Stand stop · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapSouza Lobo's · Khobra Vaddo
A Calangute institution since 1932, with tables straight onto the sand.
Tip: One of the oldest on the beach: order the prawns recheado, which is the house recipe.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 6 min walk
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Show on mapBritto's · Baga
The big shack at Baga, open from morning through to the small hours.
Tip: It runs from breakfast to the small hours: Baga's meeting point at any time of day.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapInfantaria · Khobra Vaddo
Bakery and restaurant in Calangute, one of the few still keeping real Goan pastry.
Tip: Come for the house-made bebinca and dodol, not for the long dinner menu.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 4 min walk
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Show on mapPousada by the Beach · Gaurav Vaddo
Tables on the Calangute sand with Goan cooking and the day's fish.
Tip: Ask what came in today and order it recheado or grilled: the printed menu is the same all year, the fish is not.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 3 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCurlies · Monteiro Vaddo
The historic shack at the far south end of Anjuna, up on the rock.
Tip: It is one of those put up and taken down every season: what you see in November is not standing in July.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 7 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapBaba Au Rhum · Sancoachy Arradi
French bakery and bistro hidden among the rice fields, a cult address in the north.
Tip: The croissants and the bread come out in the morning and sell out: if you go after 12, stick with the bistro.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 8 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapArtjuna Garden Cafe & Lifestyle shop · Soranto Vaddo
Mediterranean café and restaurant with a courtyard and a shop, one of Anjuna's fixtures.
Tip: The back courtyard has wifi and power sockets: it is where half of Anjuna works in the morning.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 7 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapBean Me Up · Deul Vaddo
Vegetarian and vegan cooking in a Vagator courtyard, open for more than twenty years.
Tip: Goa's veteran vegetarian address, run around an open courtyard: in season it is worth booking.
🚇 Badem Bus Stand stop · 3 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapविनायक फॅमिली रेस्टोरेंट · Assagao
An unpretentious Goan dining room in Assagao, famous for its fish curry.
Tip: No long English menu here and no tablecloth: you come for the fish curry rice and you pay little.
🚇 Badem Bus Stand stop · 6 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapZeebop by the sea · Cuelim
A shack at Utorda, in the south, with tables on the sand and grilled fish.
Tip: One of the best in the south for whole grilled fish: it is ordered by weight, pick the piece yourself.
🚇 Verna station (Konkan Railway) · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapChef Fernandes' Nostalgia · Raia
Traditional Goan cooking in Raia, with dishes you hardly see on a menu any more.
Tip: Here they really do have sorpotel and Goan-style pig's head: old-school Goan Catholic cooking.
🚇 Margao KTC Bus Stand stop · 11 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCavatina Cuchina · Benaulim
A small table in Benaulim with seasonal Goan and continental cooking.
Tip: Few tables and seasonal opening: by November it is up, but call ahead.
🚇 Colva Beach stop · 9 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapFishermans · Gaurav Vaddo
A fish house in Calangute, the kind that works with whatever comes in that day.
Tip: Order sol kadhi to start: the cold kokum drink is what holds a Goan fish meal together.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 20 min walk
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Show on mapAgonda Sunset Beach · Agonda
An Agonda shack facing west, with tables on the sand.
Tip: Sand tables for sunset: they go first come, first served from five o'clock.
🚇 Canacona station (Konkan Railway) · 15 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapMahalsa · Matven
A southern vegetarian dining room, thali and bhaji-puri, in the Canacona area.
Tip: Pure veg and cheap: the midday plan when you come down from Palolem to run errands.
🚇 Balli station (Konkan Railway) · 23 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapThe Black Sheep · Arambol
Bar and kitchen in Arambol, tables outside and live music in season.
Tip: The live music is seasonal and starts with the night: ask at the bar for the week's line-up.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 22 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapOlive · Dabhol Vaddo
A Mediterranean table in Vagator, near the cliff.
Tip: Steps from the Vagator edge: you can chain it with sunset at Ozran.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 17 min walk
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Show on mapBaga 24 · Baga
A Baga dining room that runs around the clock, useful when everything else has closed.
Tip: The late-night fallback in Baga: not the best food on the map, just the food that is open.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapInfantaria Pastalaria Restaurant · Dongarpur
Infantaria's other house, with its own oven and a Goan pastry counter.
Tip: The counter at the entrance is the best sampler of Goan sweets to take away: bebinca, dodol and doce.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 3 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapShiva Valley · Monteiro Vaddo
The historic party spot at the far south of Anjuna, out on the sand.
Tip: It runs by season and with a regulated closing time: loud open-air music has an hour limit in Goa.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 7 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapSai Family Restaurant · Savantwada
A Palolem dining room with Goan and Indian cooking, open all day in season.
Tip: A simple, cheap option in Palolem, where nearly everything is aimed at the shack tourist.
🚇 Canacona station (Konkan Railway) · 20 min walk
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Show on mapHare Rama · Patnam
A Patnem dining room with Indian and Goan cooking, seasonal.
Tip: It opens with the season like almost all of Patnem: by November it is running.
🚇 Canacona station (Konkan Railway) · 21 min walk
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Show on mapTemple Tree · Cavelossim
A quiet table in the Benaulim-Varca area, with a garden.
Tip: The back garden is cool at midday: a good refuge in the strongest sun.
🚇 Cuncolim stop · 13 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapGreenr Assagao · Buta Waddo
Plant-based cooking in Assagao, with a courtyard and a menu free of animal products.
Tip: One of the few fully plant-based menus in the north with serious cooking behind it.
🚇 Badem Bus Stand stop · 7 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapSaligao Deck · Saligao
A Saligao table, inland in the north, away from the beach noise.
Tip: Saligao and Assagao are the quiet inland north: half an hour from the beach and another world.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 7 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCasino Palms · Baga
A Baga casino, one of the land-based ones in the north.
Tip: In Goa the land casinos and the floating ones on the Mandovi have different rules and different entry fees.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCasino Carnival · St. Mary's Colony
A casino on the Mandovi, in the Panjim area.
Tip: The floating casinos are boarded from a jetty and charge an entry fee with drinks included.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 7 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapOm Shiva · Dabhol Vaddo
A Vagator dining room, one of the neighbourhood veterans, with an Indian and continental menu.
Tip: One of those that have spent decades in Vagator and still open every season.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 3 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapSweet Lake · Kalchawada
A dining room by the Arambol freshwater lake, at the end of the rock path.
Tip: It is just past the rocks: the natural stop after a swim in the lake.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 25 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapPadaria Zubeid · Panjim Bazaar
A neighbourhood bakery in Panjim where the Goan poi comes out fresh, before dawn and in the afternoon.
Tip: The poi is baked twice a day, before dawn and at dusk: at those hours it comes out hot and it is another thing entirely.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 17 min walk
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Show on mapGeeta Bakery · Panjim Bazaar
A neighbourhood oven in Panjim, one of those that supply the poder, the baker who delivers bread through the streets.
Tip: Ask for undo and kankon as well as poi: they are the other Goan breads and visitors are almost never offered them.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 3 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapPereira Modern Bakery · Majorda
A Majorda bakery, in the south, with the afternoon batch still hot.
Tip: Mid-afternoon the second batch comes out: the hour when the whole neighbourhood drops by for bread.
🚇 Majorda Junction station (train) · 21 min walk
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Show on mapNicolau Bakery · Raia
A traditional oven in the Raia area, with everyday Goan pastry.
Tip: Village bakery bebinca is cheaper and more honest than the one on the beach menus.
🚇 Margao KTC Bus Stand stop · 11 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapBakehouse · Patto
Bakery and café in Panjim, steps from Fontainhas, with tables to sit at.
Tip: The comfortable breakfast before setting off to walk Fontainhas, which has almost nothing open early.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 4 min walk
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Show on mapCafé Chocolatti · Marquis Vaddo
Tea garden and pastry in Candolim, one of the area's veterans.
Tip: The back garden is an island of quiet in the middle of Candolim: order the hot chocolate even in the heat.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 9 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapआर्टजुना · Junaswada
Artjuna's Mandrem branch, with a courtyard and long breakfasts.
Tip: Mandrem is the quiet part of the north: breakfast here comes without the Baga noise.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 16 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCafe Porvorim · Pundalik Nagar
A roadside café in Porvorim, the junction everyone heading north from Panjim goes through.
Tip: Porvorim is the bottleneck between Panjim and the northern beaches: a good place to wait for the traffic to ease.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 6 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapButterfly cafe · Panna
A simple café near the path down to Butterfly Beach, in the south.
Tip: The last shaded stop before heading down to the cove: load up on water here.
🚇 Canacona station (Konkan Railway) · 10 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapPastry Palace · Chaudi
A pastry counter in Palolem, with Goan sweets and oven-baked ones.
Tip: Look for serradura and dodol in the counter: the two Goan sweets that travel best.
🚇 Canacona stop · 8 min walk
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Show on mapPastry Cottage · Campal
A neighbourhood pastry shop in Panjim, with small tables inside.
Tip: One of those that still makes layered bebinca in house; ask whether there is any before ordering anything else.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapCrispy Corner Bakery · Campal
Oven and counter in central Panjim, for grabbing and going.
Tip: A takeaway counter: ideal for picking up bread before catching the ferry or the bus.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 3 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapKashi Dairy Sweets & Pure Veg · Desterro
An Indian sweet and dairy house in Vasco, one of the early openers.
Tip: Here the chai is drunk standing up and in a small glass: the morning ritual that does not change anywhere in India.
🚇 Vasco Market Bus Stand stop · 5 min walk
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Show on mapMithai Mandir · Miramar
An Indian sweets counter in the Porvorim area.
Tip: The sweets are sold by weight: ask for a hundred grams mixed and taste before committing to a box.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 7 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapBread & More · Mungul
A Margao bakery with Goan bread and everyday pastry.
Tip: Margao is the town where you eat the most Goan and the least touristy food on the whole map.
🚇 Old Bus Stand stop · 4 min walk
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Show on mapNadia Bakery · Aquem
A neighbourhood oven in Margao, with the dusk batch.
Tip: In the afternoon you hear the horn of the poder delivering bread door to door around the neighbourhood.
🚇 Old Bus Stand stop · 8 min walk
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Show on mapHarry's German bakery · Benaulim
A European-style bakery in the Benaulim area, one of the south's veterans.
Tip: The german bakeries are a Goan invention of the seventies: they are not German, they come from the hippie trail.
🚇 Colva Beach stop · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapGerman Bakery · Kalchawada
Arambol's german bakery, at the far north, with a courtyard and low tables.
Tip: It opens with the season and closes with it: in November it is running.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 23 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapWhole Bean · Grande Peddem
A specialty coffee shop in the Anjuna area, with beans roasted in India.
Tip: India's high-altitude coffee comes from Karnataka and Kerala: ask for the origin, here they actually know it.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 8 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapSouza & Sons · Desterro
A Vasco bakery with one of those long-standing Goan names.
Tip: A Portuguese surname over a bakery door is the commonest trace Portugal left in Goa.
🚇 Vasco Market Bus Stand stop · 6 min walk
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Show on mapMiguel bakery · Majorda
A small oven in Majorda, the kind that works only for the neighbourhood.
Tip: No tables and no menu: you buy the bread at the counter and eat it walking.
🚇 Majorda Junction station (train) · 23 min walk
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Show on mapKala Academy Cafeteria · Campal
The cultural centre's cafeteria, facing the river, open along with the programme.
Tip: During IFFI, from 20 to 28 November 2026, it is the meeting point between one screening and the next.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapBus Stand Canteen · Tali Wada
The canteen at the Mapusa bus terminal, chai and a quick bite between buses.
Tip: Terminal chai is cheap, sweet and strong: the real fuel of bus travel around Goa.
🚇 New Mapusa Bus Stand stop · 1 min walk
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Show on mapMapusa Municipal Market · Khalap Wada
The north's municipal market, which on Fridays spills into the surrounding streets.
Tip: Friday is the big day. This is where you buy spices, Goan chouriço and feni at local prices, not beach prices.
🚇 Mapusa KTC Bus Stand stop · 4 min walk
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Show on mapAnjuna Flea Market · Monteiro Vaddo
Anjuna's historic flea market, started by seventies travellers selling what they carried.
Tip: It runs on Wednesdays and by season: by November it is set up. You haggle always, without exception.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 8 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapArpora Saturday Night Market · Mainat Bhatti
The Saturday night market, with a stage, food stalls and crafts.
Tip: Strictly seasonal and strictly Saturday nights: out of season the grounds are empty.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 6 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapMargao Market · Ambaji
Margao's covered market, the commercial heart of South Goa.
Tip: This is the best spice selection in the whole south, and nobody is going to talk brochure English at you.
🚇 Margao KTC Bus Stand stop · 6 min walk
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Show on mapMargao Fish Market · Ambaji
Margao's fish hall, with the day's catch from early on.
Tip: Go early: by mid-morning the best has been taken and what is left is the rest.
🚇 Margao KTC Bus Stand stop · 5 min walk
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Show on mapPanjim Market · Panjim Bazaar
Panjim's municipal market, with fruit, spices and cashew stalls.
Tip: Around the market is Goa's densest cluster of kaju stalls: compare the price across three before buying.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapAnjuna Fish Market · Mazal Vaddo
Anjuna's fish market, small and local.
Tip: One of those that still works for the village and not for the visitor.
🚇 Badem Bus Stand stop · 6 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapMorjim Beach Market · Tembwada
Stalls beside Morjim beach, seasonal.
Tip: It goes up with the season like the shacks: in November it is there, in July it is not.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 3 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapChapora Fort Flea Market · Dabhol Vaddo
Stalls at the foot of the climb up to Chapora fort.
Tip: The last stop before the climb: water and a hat, because there is nothing up there.
🚇 Chapora Jetty Bus Stand stop · 8 min walk
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Show on mapKaju Bazar · Panjim Bazaar
A cashew stall in Panjim, with the Goan varieties sorted by grade.
Tip: Cashews are sold by grade: W180 is the biggest and the most expensive. Ask to taste before settling the price.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapKaju Palace · Campal
A cashew and dried fruit house in central Panjim.
Tip: The cashew reached India through Goa, brought by the Portuguese: from here it spread across the subcontinent.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapGoa Kaju · Patto Colony
A cashew stall near the Panjim market.
Tip: Buy at the market and not at the airport: the price gap is wide.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 5 min walk
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Show on mapMonika Kaju · Panjim Bazaar
A cashew and spice counter in Panjim.
Tip: Ask for vacuum packing if you are travelling: loose cashews go rancid fast in the heat.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 20 min walk
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Show on mapRoyal's Kaju · Panjim Bazaar
A cashew and sweets stall in the Panjim market area.
Tip: They also sell packaged dodol and bebinca here, which stand the journey better than the fresh ones.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 20 min walk
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Show on mapShanta cashews · Colva
A cashew house in the Colva area, in the south.
Tip: In the south there are fewer stalls and less haggling than in Panjim, but the opening price is usually more honest.
🚇 Colva Beach stop · 2 min walk
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Show on mapCasa Barreto · São Tomé
A Panjim drinks shop with a shelf given over to feni.
Tip: Cashew feni is made only between February and May, when the cashew fruit falls; the coconut one is made all year.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 17 min walk
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Show on mapL.O.C Wines · Patto Colony
A drinks shop in Panjim, one of the big ones, with feni and local spirits.
Tip: In Goa alcohol is markedly cheaper than in the rest of India because of the state's tax regime.
🚇 Panjim KTC Bus Stand stop · 6 min walk
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Show on mapVeda Wines · Campal
A drinks shop in central Panjim.
Tip: Check the limit on bottles you can take out of Goa by road: there is a check at the state border.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapWine Palace · Campal
A drinks counter in Panjim, near the market.
Tip: If you are buying feni as a gift, ask for the cashew one bottled and labelled, not the loose stuff from the jerrycan.
🚇 Panjim Private Bus Stand stop · 4 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapSiolim Supermarket · Siolim
The Siolim supermarket, the one that supplies the whole inland north.
Tip: If you have rented a house in Siolim or Assagao, this is where you shop: on the beach everything costs double.
🚇 Badem Bus Stand stop · 6 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapRed Chilli · Khalap Wada
A spice stall in the Mapusa market.
Tip: Ask for the xacuti and the cafreal blends ready ground: they are the two that define Goan cooking.
🚇 Mapusa KTC Bus Stand stop · 5 min walk
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Show on mapGoa-Velha Market · Goa Velha
A vegetable and fruit market in Goa Velha, on the way to Velha Goa.
Tip: A natural stop if you ride from Panjim to Velha Goa on the old road.
🚇 Dabolim station (train) · 16 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapSnow Park · Baga
An indoor attraction in Calangute, a cold-air refuge in the full heat.
Tip: The card up your sleeve if you are travelling with kids and the midday sun makes outdoors impossible.
🚇 Calangute Beach stop · 3 min by taxi or scooter
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Show on mapKTM Mapusa · Indira Nagar
A motorcycle dealer and workshop in Mapusa, useful if you have rented and something goes wrong.
Tip: A legal rental bike carries a yellow-on-black plate: if they hand you a white plate, it is not a rental.
🚇 Mapusa KTC Bus Stand stop · 5 min by taxi or scooter
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