Getting here
A detailed guide to get to Vivenda Dos Palhaços. Do get in touch for any further information / directions.
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Plane
We are less than half an hour’s drive south of Goa’s old airport at Dabolim and about 90 mins south of the new airport at Mopa. Goa is a fifty-minute flight from Bombay and Bangalore. There are frequent flights on a variety of India’s excellent new private domestic airlines (see Links) connecting Goa with India’s main tourist cities including Jaipur and Agra. The flight from Delhi is under two hours and Calcutta is two and a half hours away.
Train
We are twenty minutes from the main station in the second city of Goa, Margao. The daily overnight train to and from Bombay, The KonKan Express, is recommended in one direction if you are feeling adventurous. We would be happy to suggest places to stay and things to do in Bombay for a couple of nights at the beginning or end of your trip. Or further afield if you would like to combine a relaxing week in Goa, with a more rigorous trip elsewhere in the sub-continent.
Automobile
To maintain our privacy, we have absolutely no signage up on the main road. We are on Google maps as Vivenda Dos Palhacos, Costa Vaddo, Majorda. We are down a tiny unmarked lane opposite a café called Cozinha de Paparico. The other main landmark is an Art Gallery and café called Carpe Diem. We are 30 minutes south of Panjim, the capital of Goa. We are five minutes from the ITC and Alila Diwa now owned by the Hyatt.
This is what one of the travel guides has to say about the area we are in:
“The presence of the big five stars seems to have inadvertently shielded the area immediately inland from other kinds of development, with the result that once out of sight of the resorts, you find yourself in a pleasantly uncongested, traditional belt that will appeal greatly to anyone seeking peace and quiet within walking distance of the longest beach in Goa.”