Anjuna / Palolem

Anjuna, finally a beach where we can get into the water without being scared of diseases. It was quite needed with this heat that I find difficult to adapt to. The hotel is 10 minutes away from the beach. It could be much closer but it has been made sothat wehave to go through a little bit of shops with vendors wanting us to stop so bad. It gets annoying quickly since they do it in way that is a little rude. We sleep in a guesthouse recommended by Hostels World but euhhh... It's maybe that i haven't travelled enough...but i think the room is way too expensive to sleep on a matress as hard as wood! The night is short!
The plan for the first day was to visit the Fort in Chapora but... life being life, we are stopped on the side of the road by a guy on a scooter who gives us cards to  scratch. He says that everyone is a winner. Yey right! Well it was true. Rob won a bottle of wine and i won 1 week accomodation in one of the resort he was promotting. The only thing we had to do is go to the resort and visit the place! They even paid for the taxi to get there and back. I will have to claim my price within a year and will have to reserve it 2 months in advance. It's seems like a good reason to come back next year!!
We still visited the Fort where the view on Vagatore and Arambole's beaches is amazing. Since the atmosphere there was not what we were expecting, we decided to go a little further down south on Palolem beach. Wow and rewow! We are somewhere else that is not India, anyway not the India that we see in documentaries. More tourists it seems than people from there but still quiet. We rented a hut directly on the beach. We spent 5 days without the need of wearing shoes. We were on the beach for most of our time there, went on a dolphins excursion, drank pinapple and mango shakes and went to silent discos. The music needs to be turn down after 23h so the bars rent headphones on which you can choose from 3 different channels\DJs. It's weird since you can have a very normal conversation once you take the headphones down and you can hear people singing the words of the songs playing. On top of that, nobody has the same rythm and it gets very entertaining to watch! Palolem is also the place where my intestines started working again but they seem to do some overtime for a whole night. Well the hut was close buy and we didn't feel like eating too much since it was so hot. Only good souvenirs remaining! After 5 days of sun, too much for me, we decided that the next destination was to be Hampi to move a little more.  A bit of climbing is on the schedule and temples hopping.