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Before Goa had air-conditioned salons offering appointments, styling menus, spa treatments and online reviews, getting a haircut could be a far more personal village affair. The barber knew his customers not because their names appeared on a booking screen but because he knew their homes, families and often the ceremonies taking place within them. He might work from a modest ...

Christmas in Goa may still be four months away, but the traveller who waits until December to start thinking about December is often the traveller who ends up choosing between expensive flights, compromised accommodation and whatever dinner reservation happens to remain available. Goa’s year-end period is not an ordinary holiday week. It brings together the state’s peak touri...

Before plastic buckets, steel storage containers and factory-made decorative pieces became ordinary household objects, clay occupied a far larger place in everyday Goa. Water was stored in earthen vessels that naturally kept it cool, food could be prepared or preserved in pottery, lamps were shaped for religious use and festival idols emerged from the same material beneath th...

Ganesh Chaturthi may appear on the calendar as a festival beginning on a particular date, but in Goa the real beginning is much harder to identify. It starts when houses are cleaned, old decorations are brought out, family members begin discussing who will return home, traditional artisans receive idol orders and markets slowly fill with the extraordinary collection of leaves...

Few questions about Goa receive more confusing answers than the simplest one: how much does a Goa trip actually cost? One traveller claims to have spent less than ₹10,000, another returns after spending ₹50,000 in a weekend, while a luxury holiday can easily cost several lakhs. All three experiences can be genuine because Goa does not have one standard price. Your total depen...