WELCOME TO NORTH GOA
North Goa is the Goa you might have heard all about: crowded beaches, upbeat nightlife, Goan trance, great food, hippie markets and yoga retreats. If you like a fast pace and plenty of things to do, this is the place.
The region is framed by two great rivers – the Mandovi in the south and the Terekhol in the north – with some 35km of golden beaches in between. Calangute and Baga are the epicentre of the region, and have one of the few beaches still humming in the off-season.
Anjuna, with its famous Wednesday market, and Vagator still exude some hippy cool and party vibe, while the laid-back beaches of Morjim, Aswem and Mandrem are low-key but burgeoning family-friendly resorts with some flashy beachfront huts. In the far north, Arambol is a popular paragliding centre and budget traveller enclave with cheap clifftop accommodation.