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Extract from the Benaulim Travel Guides:
According to Hindu mythology, Goa was created when the sage Shri Parasurama, Vishnu's sixth incarnation, fired an arrow into the sea from the top of the Western Ghats and ordered the waters to recede. The spot where the shaft fell to earth, known in Sanskrit as Banali ("place where the arrow landed") and later corrupted by the Portuguese to
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, lies in the dead centre of Colva Beach, 7km west of Margao. Fifteen years ago, this atmospheric fishing and rice-farming village, scattered around the coconut groves and paddy fields between the main Colva-Mobor road and the dunes, had barely made it onto the backpackers' map. Si...
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