Goa was a Portuguese territory from 1510 to 1961 — longer than the British occupation of any part of India. That 450-year presence left a culture that exists nowhere else: Indo-Portuguese architecture, a fusion cuisine distinct from all other Indian cooking, Catholic churches of extraordinary quality, and a social fabric still visibly shaped by that encounter.
The Goa we explore has nothing to do with beaches. Old Goa was once the largest city in Asia after Lisbon. The Basilica of Bom Jesus holds the body of St Francis Xavier. The Latin Quarter of Fontainhas is an intact 19th-century Portuguese neighbourhood. Divar Island is a village where time stopped in the 1950s.
Based in Madurai since 2013. Every journey to Goa is designed personally around your interests and pace.