GOA DIARY
13.02.09
1. Left home at 9:15 hours. On arrival at the Palam airport, I came to know that, IC 856 to Goa is further delayed & likely to start at 12:00 hours. Earlier Air India had informed that the flight, instead of leaving at scheduled 10.00 hours, will start at 11:15 hours. At airport we were given breakfast packets & tea/coffee. I had ‘Cafe’ Cappuccino earlier. Mother – Daughter – duo, probably Sindhis from Karachi, met Venita. As is the practice with her, she struck acquaintance with them. They live at Singapore. The mother expressed her desire to join Shiva Yoga of Avdhoot Swami Shivanand, based in Dwarka, Delhi. I suggested her to try Vipaasna, which, i am sure, has a center at Singapore. The daughter had very sharp features. Later we came to know that she was working in a firm which is sponsoring (one of the sponsors) Sony T.V’s Indian Idol program. In the meantime boarding of our flight is announced & we left through gate no 4 for the flight. Now when we were in the aircraft, at 12.30pm we were informed that our aircraft is 30th in line for take off, It will take over one hour before we take off. At the airport I had seen a burger in the breakfast packet. I had been nursing a desire to have a burger for quite a few days. Lo!! it is there. I enjoyed eating it, say, after years. It is junk food. So I had given it up.Over the clouds, I was served food of my choice without spices, oil, continental & vegetarian. As usual, Venita was attracted to it & took some fruit & half of my veg. tikki. I don’t know English word for it. I had placed order for such a food at the time of booking of my tickets. For Venita it was as usual spicy Indian food. In our front seats were all foreigners travelling to Goa. We took the aisle seats, more comfortable in the same line. By the side of Venita is a young couple (sardarji) on a honeymoon visit to Goa. The plane halted at Mumbai. We had to be inside the aircraft for over one hour.
2. Sanjay Sahu, Chief Finance officer Frigoglass, India (P) Ltd. spoke to me and wanted a copy each of the orders of the High Court of Punjab & Haryana in the case. I requested Atiar to help him out. The aircraft A-320 in which we are travelling is well provided and a new one.
3. We landed at DABOLIM airport at about 1700hours, in the outskirts of VASCO DA GAMA town. DGP Goa had made arrangements to receive us at the airport. We travelled by Toyota Qualis through NH-17 to Panaji. On way we crossed River ZUARI. The river divides Goa into two districts: North Goa & South Goa. The headquarters of the North Goa Disst. is located at Panaji and of South Disst. in Margao. The distance between the airport & Panaji is about 30Kms. The journey from airport to Panaji was thrilling. On way there were beautiful red roofed houses, built in Latin style, also many modern houses. It took us about an hour to reach the Police Officers Mess at Altinho. We settled down in suite named after the river CHAPORA. The mess also had suites named after other rivers of GOA: TIRACOL, CHAPORA, MANDOVI, ZUARI, SAL & TALPONA.
4. Panaji, where the Police Officers Mess is located is a picturesque town on the left bank of river Mandovi. It has well laid gardens, statues and avenues lined with gulmohur, acacia and other trees. Panoramic view of the town unfolds from atop Altinho. Shri J.P Shrivastava’s flat is also located at Altinho. In fact he had invited us to stay with him. He is our neighbor at Fatehpur and now settled down at Panaji. At present his flat is locked up and he stays with his daughter, Sunita in the outskirts of the town. She is a manager in Syndicate bank. Panaji is also the seat of state administration.
5. In the evening we visited Shri J.P Shrivastava and met the other members of the family : his wife, his son, his son-in-law, daughter and grand children. I am meeting him after a gap of over 40 years. He looks as young as he was 40 years back. He is 76 but quite healthy, touchwood. He invited us for dinner on 14th February, Valentine day. Retired to sleep at about 22.30hours after dinner.
14.02.09
6. Talked to Shri B.S Brar IPS, DGP, Goa. We wanted to meet him but he was preoccupied due to handing over of the office of the DGP to Shri PS Bassi, IPS on transfer to Delhi Police. He said we could meet him in the afternoon. The purpose of calling on Shri Brar was to thank him for arranging accommodation etc. I could not meet him in the afternoon as I was preoccupied with visits to temples and churches in old Goa . The son-in law of Shri Jagdish Shrivastava, Shri Vijay Sawardekar, guided us to visit seven old temples namely:- 1. Manguesh, 2. Mahalsa, 3.Gopal Ganapati, 4. Nagesh, 5. Mahalaxmi, 6. Shantadurga, 7. Ramnath, located within a radius of 3to4 kms.
Temples
• Shree Manguesh . It is a temple dedicated to lord SHIVA. It is located on a hillock surrounded by lush green hills. Bharat Ratna Lata
• Mangeshkar comes from this place. Its lofty white tower at the entrance is a land mark of the country side. It is situated 22 Kms from Panaji in Priol-Ponda Taluka in the village of Bandora. It may be mentioned here that the two districts of Goa, north & south, are divided into six divisions and 11 Talukas.
• Shree Mahalsa. It is about one km from Manguesh Temple. The deity worshiped is the Mohini ‘roop’ of Vishnu. Lord Vishnu took the form of Mohini during the fight between Devas and Asuras over distribution of nectar (Amrit). It is situated at Mardol.
• Shree Gopal Ganapati. It is situated in Farmagudi Village amids beautiful natural surroundings near Bandora. Farmagudi Village commemorates the event of hasty retreat of the Portuguese Viceroy who attacked the fort of Ponda in October 1683 on sudden appearance of the Maratha King Sambhaji with a large army. It is a good specimen of Indian temple architecture synthesizing both ancient and modern.
It may be noted here that all the old temples situated in the area have five silver studded arches. The deity is seated after the fifth arch in each temple. The temple premises in each case are very clean and their administration is superb. The devotion of the people is indescribable.
• Shree Naguesh. This temple is dedicated to lord SHIVA and located in village Bandora.
• Shree Mahalaxmi. The temple is situated in the village, Bandode. The image of Mahalakshmi has a close resemblance to that of Mahalakshmi of Kolahapur. Her special feature is that she wears a linga on her head and considered satvik form of the Devi. The goddess Mahalkshmi was worshipped by the Shilahara rulers ( 750-1030AD)& the early Kadamba Kings of Goa.
Vinita offered a saree and other items at this temple. She was given a receipt for the saree & told that when your wish is fulfilled you come back with the receipt and take back the saree which we will in the meantime use in the temple. We said we have no wish to wish. We just wish for the blessings of the goddess so that we live happily for whatever years are left with us without being a burden to anyone.
• Shree ShantaDurga. It is situated at about 3kms from Manguesh temple at Mandol, Ponda. Has a rich and beautiful garbhkuda or holy of the holies where the deity is kept.
• Shree Ramnath, It is 33kms from Panaji and located in Ponda Taluka. Besides the shrine of Ramnath deity, it has four small temples of Shree Lakshmi Narayan, Shree Shanta Durga ( Sateri), Shree Betal & Shree Sidhanath. They five together are known as Shree Ramnath Panchayatan. The legend is that Rameshwar is the original abode of Lord Ramnath. The temple is dedicated to Lord SHIVA.
The aforesaid temples are quite old and well maintained. Besides them there are a number of other temples . We did not have time to visit them. We hope to visit them when we go there next.
We had lunch at a restaurant at Ponda. It was Valentine day & the restaurant was full of young girls and boys in their best outfits. As we did not order hard drinks, the waiter did not like it and exhibited a grim face. Over the years, St. Valentine has incorrectly been associated with finding love. According to the Roman Catholic Church, St. Valentine is the patron saint for those who have already found their love. In fact St. Raphael is the patron saint for happy encounters and it is to him young lovers should direct their prayers for love and not to St. Valentine. St. Valentine is said to have been martyred in ROME in 269AD.
Churches
6. On way back we visited a number of old churches, which are located in old Goa. Old Goa was founded by Adil Shah in the first decade of 16th century. The Shah kings desired to shift their capital to this place from Bijapur. But this could not be done due to Portuguese invasion and conversion of it into the centre of power of the Portuguese colonies.
7. Of the churches visited by us the most important was the church of Basilica of Bom Jesus. It was built in 16th century. It is the most popular and famous church of Goa. The mortal remains of St. Francis Xavier are kept here. It is said that the nails of the corpse are increasing every year. The corpse is kept for public view once every year when hundreds of people come and pay their homage to the saint. St. Francis Xavier was a priest in the church. When he was going back to Rome after his tenure as priest, he died in the ship. His body however did not show any sign of decay. It was brought back to Goa and is kept in this church since then. The driver of the car in which we were travelling told us that originally the church was a SHIVA temple. This is the only church where the cross is not exhibited. Quite a few times it was attempted to install a Cross on top but without any success. In fact the person who went up to install cross either fell down or could not go up. We don’t know the truth. I am narrating what the driver told us.
8. In the evening we went for a river cruise on Mandovi. It started at 7.30 pm for one hour. The ferry was equipped with hard and soft drinks, being sold at double the rates. The tourists were dancing to the Jazz tunes and there was air of celebration of Valentine Day, mostly by young & vivacious couples. The most striking couple was that of a sardar ji & his wife putting on heavy jewelry. After the cruise we rang up Shri J.P Shrivastava & requested him to come over for dinner in some hotel. His daughter, Sunita, said that she would come with us for dinner when she visits Delhi & that we will have to go to her place for dinner this time. We had no choice. We had a delicious dinner with Shri J.P.Shrivastava , his son-in-law, daughter, wife and two beautiful and sweet grand children. Returned to the Police Officers Mess at about 11pm and retired to sleep.
15.02.09
9. We had a visitor early in the morning. It was none other than Shri J.P.Shrivastava who had come over after his morning walk crossing Mandovi river by a ferry and thereafter by an auto rickshaw to handover my cell phone which I had inadvertently left at his place yesterday night. I was touched by his this gesture.
As guided by Vijay and Shri JP Shrivastava, we visited idyllic palm fringed beaches of Goa like Arambol, Vagator, Anjuna, Baga, and Calangute in north Goa.
• Arambol Beach: It is about 50 Kms from Panaji. The significant feature of the beach is that it has a sweet water pond right on the shore.
• Vagator Beach: It is a popular beach. Nearby is Chapora fort. It is 18 Kms from Panaji.
• Anjuna Beach: It is 18 Kms from Panaji adjacent to Chapora fort . In Anjuna there is magnificent Albuquerque mansion ,built in 1920.
• .Baga Beach: It is a small beach not a significant one.
• Calangute Beach: It is 16 Kms from Panaji. It is the most popular holiday resort in Goa. Most of the tourists were either from European countries or USA apart from Indian tourists. You have surfing, helli-flying, paragliding, and banana boat rides. I had cold drink and Venita had hot tea. We found difficulty in locating a toilet. Most of the tourists were from nearby hotels. It was quite warm and we were keen to go back to our air conditioned Toyota qualis as quickly as possible .
• Miramar Beach: This is situated just 3Kms from Panaji town. Infact this is a part of Panaji. We visited it in the evening, after lunch at Police Officers Mess. The sun was setting in all its glory. We watched it till it sunk in the Arabian sea. There were hundreds of people who watched it setting. I wrote a poem. Unfortunately it is lost. I am unable to recollect it. So forgive me . As far as I remember it was in touching memory of near and dear ones who have disappeared from the horizon of life.
10. On way back we had a cup of coffee at CAFÉ. Venita bought some dry fruits, artifacts and a couple of bottles of local bru for gifting it to our good friends who relish drinks.
11.We could not visit beaches of south Goa such as Colava, Batul & Paloem due to lack of time.
We retired to sleep early as we had to get up very early morning to leave for the airport at 04:30hours next day to be able to catch our flight no. IC866 from Dabolim airport at 06:40hours.
16.02.09
12. The journey to Dabolim Airport early morning was enchanting. Goa “ is a tiny emerald land on the west coast of India with its natural scenic beauty, abundant greenery, attractive beaches and temples and churches with distinctive style of architecture , colourful and lively feasts and festivals and, above all, hospitable people with a rich cultural milieu,” Its area is 3,702 sq. kms, smaller than Fatehpur to which I belong. The area of Fatehpur is 4,152 sq. kms.
13. No constructions or development are allowed within 200 meters of the high tide line on the sandy stretches. The chirpings of the birds reminded us of the famous Salim - Ali birds sanctuary which we could not visit. We see spice plantations on the way which we did not visit as we had seen enough of them in Kerela last year. We wanted to visit Pascoal Spice Village but could not due to lack of time. As in Kerela the spices grown and sold here are black pepper, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon cardamom, turmeric, ginger and others.
14.We arrived at the airport at 05:15 hours and boarded the IC flight no. 866 which left at 07:00hours. We arrived Palam airport, Delhi Via- Mumbai at about 11:00hours
13.02.09
1. Left home at 9:15 hours. On arrival at the Palam airport, I came to know that, IC 856 to Goa is further delayed & likely to start at 12:00 hours. Earlier Air India had informed that the flight, instead of leaving at scheduled 10.00 hours, will start at 11:15 hours. At airport we were given breakfast packets & tea/coffee. I had ‘Cafe’ Cappuccino earlier. Mother – Daughter – duo, probably Sindhis from Karachi, met Venita. As is the practice with her, she struck acquaintance with them. They live at Singapore. The mother expressed her desire to join Shiva Yoga of Avdhoot Swami Shivanand, based in Dwarka, Delhi. I suggested her to try Vipaasna, which, i am sure, has a center at Singapore. The daughter had very sharp features. Later we came to know that she was working in a firm which is sponsoring (one of the sponsors) Sony T.V’s Indian Idol program. In the meantime boarding of our flight is announced & we left through gate no 4 for the flight. Now when we were in the aircraft, at 12.30pm we were informed that our aircraft is 30th in line for take off, It will take over one hour before we take off. At the airport I had seen a burger in the breakfast packet. I had been nursing a desire to have a burger for quite a few days. Lo!! it is there. I enjoyed eating it, say, after years. It is junk food. So I had given it up.Over the clouds, I was served food of my choice without spices, oil, continental & vegetarian. As usual, Venita was attracted to it & took some fruit & half of my veg. tikki. I don’t know English word for it. I had placed order for such a food at the time of booking of my tickets. For Venita it was as usual spicy Indian food. In our front seats were all foreigners travelling to Goa. We took the aisle seats, more comfortable in the same line. By the side of Venita is a young couple (sardarji) on a honeymoon visit to Goa. The plane halted at Mumbai. We had to be inside the aircraft for over one hour.
2. Sanjay Sahu, Chief Finance officer Frigoglass, India (P) Ltd. spoke to me and wanted a copy each of the orders of the High Court of Punjab & Haryana in the case. I requested Atiar to help him out. The aircraft A-320 in which we are travelling is well provided and a new one.
3. We landed at DABOLIM airport at about 1700hours, in the outskirts of VASCO DA GAMA town. DGP Goa had made arrangements to receive us at the airport. We travelled by Toyota Qualis through NH-17 to Panaji. On way we crossed River ZUARI. The river divides Goa into two districts: North Goa & South Goa. The headquarters of the North Goa Disst. is located at Panaji and of South Disst. in Margao. The distance between the airport & Panaji is about 30Kms. The journey from airport to Panaji was thrilling. On way there were beautiful red roofed houses, built in Latin style, also many modern houses. It took us about an hour to reach the Police Officers Mess at Altinho. We settled down in suite named after the river CHAPORA. The mess also had suites named after other rivers of GOA: TIRACOL, CHAPORA, MANDOVI, ZUARI, SAL & TALPONA.
4. Panaji, where the Police Officers Mess is located is a picturesque town on the left bank of river Mandovi. It has well laid gardens, statues and avenues lined with gulmohur, acacia and other trees. Panoramic view of the town unfolds from atop Altinho. Shri J.P Shrivastava’s flat is also located at Altinho. In fact he had invited us to stay with him. He is our neighbor at Fatehpur and now settled down at Panaji. At present his flat is locked up and he stays with his daughter, Sunita in the outskirts of the town. She is a manager in Syndicate bank. Panaji is also the seat of state administration.
5. In the evening we visited Shri J.P Shrivastava and met the other members of the family : his wife, his son, his son-in-law, daughter and grand children. I am meeting him after a gap of over 40 years. He looks as young as he was 40 years back. He is 76 but quite healthy, touchwood. He invited us for dinner on 14th February, Valentine day. Retired to sleep at about 22.30hours after dinner.
14.02.09
6. Talked to Shri B.S Brar IPS, DGP, Goa. We wanted to meet him but he was preoccupied due to handing over of the office of the DGP to Shri PS Bassi, IPS on transfer to Delhi Police. He said we could meet him in the afternoon. The purpose of calling on Shri Brar was to thank him for arranging accommodation etc. I could not meet him in the afternoon as I was preoccupied with visits to temples and churches in old Goa . The son-in law of Shri Jagdish Shrivastava, Shri Vijay Sawardekar, guided us to visit seven old temples namely:- 1. Manguesh, 2. Mahalsa, 3.Gopal Ganapati, 4. Nagesh, 5. Mahalaxmi, 6. Shantadurga, 7. Ramnath, located within a radius of 3to4 kms.
Temples
• Shree Manguesh . It is a temple dedicated to lord SHIVA. It is located on a hillock surrounded by lush green hills. Bharat Ratna Lata
• Mangeshkar comes from this place. Its lofty white tower at the entrance is a land mark of the country side. It is situated 22 Kms from Panaji in Priol-Ponda Taluka in the village of Bandora. It may be mentioned here that the two districts of Goa, north & south, are divided into six divisions and 11 Talukas.
• Shree Mahalsa. It is about one km from Manguesh Temple. The deity worshiped is the Mohini ‘roop’ of Vishnu. Lord Vishnu took the form of Mohini during the fight between Devas and Asuras over distribution of nectar (Amrit). It is situated at Mardol.
• Shree Gopal Ganapati. It is situated in Farmagudi Village amids beautiful natural surroundings near Bandora. Farmagudi Village commemorates the event of hasty retreat of the Portuguese Viceroy who attacked the fort of Ponda in October 1683 on sudden appearance of the Maratha King Sambhaji with a large army. It is a good specimen of Indian temple architecture synthesizing both ancient and modern.
It may be noted here that all the old temples situated in the area have five silver studded arches. The deity is seated after the fifth arch in each temple. The temple premises in each case are very clean and their administration is superb. The devotion of the people is indescribable.
• Shree Naguesh. This temple is dedicated to lord SHIVA and located in village Bandora.
• Shree Mahalaxmi. The temple is situated in the village, Bandode. The image of Mahalakshmi has a close resemblance to that of Mahalakshmi of Kolahapur. Her special feature is that she wears a linga on her head and considered satvik form of the Devi. The goddess Mahalkshmi was worshipped by the Shilahara rulers ( 750-1030AD)& the early Kadamba Kings of Goa.
Vinita offered a saree and other items at this temple. She was given a receipt for the saree & told that when your wish is fulfilled you come back with the receipt and take back the saree which we will in the meantime use in the temple. We said we have no wish to wish. We just wish for the blessings of the goddess so that we live happily for whatever years are left with us without being a burden to anyone.
• Shree ShantaDurga. It is situated at about 3kms from Manguesh temple at Mandol, Ponda. Has a rich and beautiful garbhkuda or holy of the holies where the deity is kept.
• Shree Ramnath, It is 33kms from Panaji and located in Ponda Taluka. Besides the shrine of Ramnath deity, it has four small temples of Shree Lakshmi Narayan, Shree Shanta Durga ( Sateri), Shree Betal & Shree Sidhanath. They five together are known as Shree Ramnath Panchayatan. The legend is that Rameshwar is the original abode of Lord Ramnath. The temple is dedicated to Lord SHIVA.
The aforesaid temples are quite old and well maintained. Besides them there are a number of other temples . We did not have time to visit them. We hope to visit them when we go there next.
We had lunch at a restaurant at Ponda. It was Valentine day & the restaurant was full of young girls and boys in their best outfits. As we did not order hard drinks, the waiter did not like it and exhibited a grim face. Over the years, St. Valentine has incorrectly been associated with finding love. According to the Roman Catholic Church, St. Valentine is the patron saint for those who have already found their love. In fact St. Raphael is the patron saint for happy encounters and it is to him young lovers should direct their prayers for love and not to St. Valentine. St. Valentine is said to have been martyred in ROME in 269AD.
Churches
6. On way back we visited a number of old churches, which are located in old Goa. Old Goa was founded by Adil Shah in the first decade of 16th century. The Shah kings desired to shift their capital to this place from Bijapur. But this could not be done due to Portuguese invasion and conversion of it into the centre of power of the Portuguese colonies.
7. Of the churches visited by us the most important was the church of Basilica of Bom Jesus. It was built in 16th century. It is the most popular and famous church of Goa. The mortal remains of St. Francis Xavier are kept here. It is said that the nails of the corpse are increasing every year. The corpse is kept for public view once every year when hundreds of people come and pay their homage to the saint. St. Francis Xavier was a priest in the church. When he was going back to Rome after his tenure as priest, he died in the ship. His body however did not show any sign of decay. It was brought back to Goa and is kept in this church since then. The driver of the car in which we were travelling told us that originally the church was a SHIVA temple. This is the only church where the cross is not exhibited. Quite a few times it was attempted to install a Cross on top but without any success. In fact the person who went up to install cross either fell down or could not go up. We don’t know the truth. I am narrating what the driver told us.
8. In the evening we went for a river cruise on Mandovi. It started at 7.30 pm for one hour. The ferry was equipped with hard and soft drinks, being sold at double the rates. The tourists were dancing to the Jazz tunes and there was air of celebration of Valentine Day, mostly by young & vivacious couples. The most striking couple was that of a sardar ji & his wife putting on heavy jewelry. After the cruise we rang up Shri J.P Shrivastava & requested him to come over for dinner in some hotel. His daughter, Sunita, said that she would come with us for dinner when she visits Delhi & that we will have to go to her place for dinner this time. We had no choice. We had a delicious dinner with Shri J.P.Shrivastava , his son-in-law, daughter, wife and two beautiful and sweet grand children. Returned to the Police Officers Mess at about 11pm and retired to sleep.
15.02.09
9. We had a visitor early in the morning. It was none other than Shri J.P.Shrivastava who had come over after his morning walk crossing Mandovi river by a ferry and thereafter by an auto rickshaw to handover my cell phone which I had inadvertently left at his place yesterday night. I was touched by his this gesture.
As guided by Vijay and Shri JP Shrivastava, we visited idyllic palm fringed beaches of Goa like Arambol, Vagator, Anjuna, Baga, and Calangute in north Goa.
• Arambol Beach: It is about 50 Kms from Panaji. The significant feature of the beach is that it has a sweet water pond right on the shore.
• Vagator Beach: It is a popular beach. Nearby is Chapora fort. It is 18 Kms from Panaji.
• Anjuna Beach: It is 18 Kms from Panaji adjacent to Chapora fort . In Anjuna there is magnificent Albuquerque mansion ,built in 1920.
• .Baga Beach: It is a small beach not a significant one.
• Calangute Beach: It is 16 Kms from Panaji. It is the most popular holiday resort in Goa. Most of the tourists were either from European countries or USA apart from Indian tourists. You have surfing, helli-flying, paragliding, and banana boat rides. I had cold drink and Venita had hot tea. We found difficulty in locating a toilet. Most of the tourists were from nearby hotels. It was quite warm and we were keen to go back to our air conditioned Toyota qualis as quickly as possible .
• Miramar Beach: This is situated just 3Kms from Panaji town. Infact this is a part of Panaji. We visited it in the evening, after lunch at Police Officers Mess. The sun was setting in all its glory. We watched it till it sunk in the Arabian sea. There were hundreds of people who watched it setting. I wrote a poem. Unfortunately it is lost. I am unable to recollect it. So forgive me . As far as I remember it was in touching memory of near and dear ones who have disappeared from the horizon of life.
10. On way back we had a cup of coffee at CAFÉ. Venita bought some dry fruits, artifacts and a couple of bottles of local bru for gifting it to our good friends who relish drinks.
11.We could not visit beaches of south Goa such as Colava, Batul & Paloem due to lack of time.
We retired to sleep early as we had to get up very early morning to leave for the airport at 04:30hours next day to be able to catch our flight no. IC866 from Dabolim airport at 06:40hours.
16.02.09
12. The journey to Dabolim Airport early morning was enchanting. Goa “ is a tiny emerald land on the west coast of India with its natural scenic beauty, abundant greenery, attractive beaches and temples and churches with distinctive style of architecture , colourful and lively feasts and festivals and, above all, hospitable people with a rich cultural milieu,” Its area is 3,702 sq. kms, smaller than Fatehpur to which I belong. The area of Fatehpur is 4,152 sq. kms.
13. No constructions or development are allowed within 200 meters of the high tide line on the sandy stretches. The chirpings of the birds reminded us of the famous Salim - Ali birds sanctuary which we could not visit. We see spice plantations on the way which we did not visit as we had seen enough of them in Kerela last year. We wanted to visit Pascoal Spice Village but could not due to lack of time. As in Kerela the spices grown and sold here are black pepper, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon cardamom, turmeric, ginger and others.
14.We arrived at the airport at 05:15 hours and boarded the IC flight no. 866 which left at 07:00hours. We arrived Palam airport, Delhi Via- Mumbai at about 11:00hours
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