I decided that Chris must know best and allowed myself to be guided by him. You can hire a car here for the day at a given rate, inclusive of a length of day and a certain number of Km, then you pay extra for each exceeded. In addition to this, and ‘for a few dollars more’ you can get a driver ☺ Instead of leaving it until of the end of this entry to give the total, I’ll tell you that it cost around £35 for 180 Km travelled – starting at 10am and finishing back at the hotel around 7.30pm. Seems pretty reasonable to me? I had previously emailed Victoria the Djembe Walla 30 Km up the coast at Aswem, and she was interested to do some looking around on the sunday, so the driver picked me up at 10am, and we drove to Aswem via Mapusa {pronounced ‘Mapsa’} stopping to ask directions when we got beyond Parnem - not even seasoned locals are guaranteed to know the area like the back of their hand! After a few false trails, we found the right area, located Victoria, and then went exploring.
'Old Goa' is a UNESCO world heritage site and is famed for its opulent buildings and churches reminiscent of the glory days of "Golden Goa". It was abandoned by the Portuguese officially in 1843 when the capital was moved to Panjim or Panaji. Today, most of the remaining buildings and churches are maintained by the Archeological Survey of India and the church services are maintained by the Archdiocese of Goa. Click on the link for more....
http://goacentral.com/Goachurches/churches_of_old_goa.htm
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