Maharashtra & Goa · 10 days
Bombay to Goa, down the coast
The Konkan road, which is the part of the drive everybody skips.
The journey
Everybody flies Bombay to Goa in an hour. The coast in between is a week: fishing villages, a sea fort at Murud that has never been taken, the hill station at Mahabaleshwar where Bombay went to escape itself, and the temple beach at Ganpatipule. Goa at the end gets three days, which is enough for Old Goa and Panjim without pretending it is a beach holiday.
Route
- Mumbai
- Murud
- Mahabaleshwar
- Pratapgarh
- Chiplun
- Ganpatipule
- Panjim
- Old Goa
What stays with you
- 01Bombay properly: Victoria Terminus, the Gateway, Crawford market, and the dhobi ghat
- 02Murud-Janjira, a fort in the sea that was never taken by anyone
- 03Mahabaleshwar at fourteen hundred metres, and Pratapgarh below it
- 04Ganpatipule, where the temple is on the beach rather than above it
- 05Old Goa: Bom Jesus, the cathedral, and St Francis
- 06Fontainhas at Panjim, which is the last Portuguese quarter left standing
Day by day
A shape rather than a timetable. Days move, and most people move one or two of them.
1 – 2
Into Bombay.
3
The city on foot and by train. Elephanta for anyone who wants it.
4
South down the coast to Murud, and the fort in the bay.
5
Inland and up to Mahabaleshwar.
6
Pratapgarh in the morning, then down to Chiplun.
7
Back to the coast at Ganpatipule.
8
On into Goa.
9
Panjim and Old Goa — the churches, and Fontainhas after.
10
Out of Goa.
Shall we plan it?
Tell us roughly when, and how many of you, and we will come back with dates, a price and anything we would change about the route.
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Karnataka & Goa