Tourist Destinations of Goa Beaches

Calangute Beach

Calangute Beach is just 16 Kms from Panaji, it has the most popular holiday resort in Goa and known as The Queen of beaches. Fun, sand and sea along with great opportunities for feasting on fresh seafood and feni is what a day on the Calangute beach essentially means. Excellent accommodation facilities are available at Calangute Beach, particularly at the 
tourist resort and cottages. Calangute lie on the shores of the Arabian Sea of North Goa in India. It is encircled by Arpora-Nagoa, Saligao and Candolim, in the Bardez taluka.

Baga

Baga is a small but perfect beach located between Colva on one side and Calangute on the other. It is a far better place to enjoy some restful moments in peace. It is a fishing beach and sand here isn’t either white or gold but brown. There is the grove of palms that comes fairly close to the water’s edge. The Baga River flows down on one side and it offering a pleasant 
diversion for children to play safe in water. 

Vagator

The soft white sands, the black lava rocks, the coconut palms and lush green landscape, nature playing its own music, and the sea turning from aquamarine to emerald green-Vagator and Chapora, overlooked by the 500-year-old Portuguese fort, leaves each visitor awestruck. Yet to be disturbed by the hustle and bustle of tourists, life goes on peacefully, in the background, in Vagator and Chapora. The world-famous Anjuna Beach lies to the south of Vagator.

Anjuna Beach

A popular beach area adjacent to Chapora fort. In Anjuna there is magnificent Albuquerque Mansion built in 1920, flanked by octagonal towers and attractive Mangalore tile-roof.This is the Goa Freak capital of the World. Anjuna becomes a fair of colors. Lines of vehicles full of tourists start virtually raising clouds of dust in this area. Full moon, when the parties take place at beach, is a particularly good time to be here if you want to indulge in bacchanalian delights.

Arambol Beach

A unique beach in the North Goa, it is both rocky & sandy beach & much sought after by foreign tourists. It has a sweet water tank right on the shore.Arambol is along the Goa border with its fresh water lagoon. It is the 16-km-long sea beach. Arambol Beach is 50 kms from Panaji. A small fresh-water lake extends along the bottom of the valley into a thick jungle,just 
behind it. Fed by boiling hot springs, the lake is lined with sulphurous mud, which, smeared over the body, dries to form a surreal, butter-coloured shell.

Palolem Beach

About 37 Km from Margao, Palolem Beach is one of the most enchanting beaches in Goa and relatively deserted, with backdrop of Western Ghats, situated in Southern most Taluka of Canacona. A crescent shaped beach offers safe swimming, while village life merges harmoniously with limited tourism.Palolem is Goa's one of the most beautiful and idyllic beach. The sweeping crescent of white sand is fringed by a shady rim of coconut palms and the whole beach is hemmed in at either end by rocky crags. The beach lies on the southern coastline of Goa amidst outstanding natural beauty.

Colva Beach

40 Km of uninterrupted with It’s silver-gray, powder-fine sand, fringed with coconut palms along the whole of its length and a warm, calm sea, Colva beach has no comparison in India. Go a little way in either direction from Colva village and you will find the nearest thing to a deserted beach. Has good accommodation facilities, particularly at the tourist cottages. The 
other main beaches at Aguada and Bagmalo are largely for the jet set and sport expensive five-star resorts.

Dona Paula Beach

An idyllic picturesque spot just 7 km from panaji Command a fine view of the Zuari estuary and Mormugao Harbor. Dona Paula beach resort is a boating paradise,and offer adventures with speedboats, water scooters and pedaloes for hire. Dona Paula divides the Zuari and Mandovi estuaries and provides pleasant views of Marmagao, the port city of Goa. Due to its proximity to the capital Panaji, Dona Paula is called the Lovers Paradise and a popular stop for the sight seeing tours.

Miramar Beach

known as Gaspar Dias beach is 3 kms from Panaji. A lovely golden beach of soft sand griddled with palm trees facing the blue Arabian Sea, is the nearest to Panaji. Miramar is almost part of Panaji. It is one of the most popular beaches. If you wish to watch the sunset from Panaji then the best location would be this beach, which is fifteen minutes' walk along the riverfront avenue called Dayanand Bandodker Marg. Miramar is an urban beach where the Mandovi River meets the Arabian Sea. It is not a safe beach to swim.