South GoaTourist Places & Beaches in South GoaSouth Goa The beaches of the south are more relaxing than those of the north, and people here are less preoccupied with partying. Although there is more shack life in the south now than there used to be, it's still far more laid-back than the north. Although Colva is crowded, Cansaulim, Benaulim, Varca, and Cavelossim beaches are progressively lovely and secluded from the rest of Goa. Some of the state's best and most expensive resorts are on these beaches. Loutolim South Goa Beaches Tourist Attractions in South Goa South Goa Hotels Below are the complete list of South Goa Hotels, Resorts, Villas, Guesthouses, Apartments. The Leela, Goa In Brief About South Goa The string of resorts and luxury hotel complexes lining 25-kilometre-long Colva beach marked the southernmost limit of tourism in Goa until a decade or so ago, when travellers started to explore the hill coast beyond the Cabo da Rama headland. Crossing the cabo at Karmali Ghat, a superb vista opens up ahead over the tops of the cashew bushes to reveal a succession of exquisite sandy bays, sheltered by the forested slopes of the Sayadhri hills. The most beautiful of them all, Palolem, has over the past decade become a fully-fledged backpackers' playground, attracting a greater number of tourists than anywhere else in the south. With Colva, formerly the region`s principal resort, patronized by domestic rather than foreign tourists, the European charter enclave has shifted south to Cavelossim and the farthest extremity of Colva beach, Mobor. In between, Benaulism remain a pleasantly uncrowded village with a distinctively Christian-Goan atmosphere, despite the recent appearance amid its paddy fields of large Mumbai-owned time-share complexes. Even at the height of the season locals still well outnumber visitors and there’s plenty of you've just stumbled off the plane. A ten-minute drive inland from Benaulim, south Goa`s main market and transport hub is Margao-district headquarters of Salcete taluka- from where metalled roads fan west to the coast and east across fertile farmland to the Zuari River. Scattered over the plain around the town are dozens of picturesque villages, many harbouring colonial-era country houses. These, together with Margao market and the magical hilltop Chandranath temple, provide the main focus for day-trips inland. Staying in south Goa, you'll soon grow familiar with of the Konkan Railway train trundling up and coast. The line, completed only in 1997, has done more than anything else to transform the complexion of this formerly remote region, bringing ever increasing number of visitors from the Indian metropolises- now an easy overnight journey away. With this new influx have come big developer's bucks and a new lease of life for the large-scale luxury resort hotels that punctuate the coastline. Staying in one of these, you'll be sharing the poolside with Maharashtrain industrialists and honeymooning dot-com couples from Bangalore, in addition to the more familiar blend of German, Scandinavian and British sun seekers.
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