v went to a park called "dona paula", dona means " miss" in portugal, paula is the name of the portugal viceroys daughter.. it was interesting to know that based on the story of paula , " ek duje ke liye", the famous movie was made.. the park was very beautiful.. it seems paula used to come to the park to see the sunrise everyday n she fell in love with a fisherman.. but due to opposition from her father, they decided to elope n get married...but suddenly the nature bought a turn in paulas life, there comes a storm n most of the fishermen die.. paula thinks tat even esperado, her lover is dead.. n she commits suicide,, but esperado is alive.. he comes to know tat paula is dead n he dies as well.. there is a statue for them as well...i would say it is a saga that any couple who go swimming there never return alive... but who knows, nobody is ready to take risks...... this was one of the interesting places we visited....
there was a church in goa. where the body of "st .Xavier " was preserved.. he was a saint who had come to india to spread christianity.. when it was time to get back to portugal, his ship met with an accident.. he was buried, his body was found fresh after many years,.. then they buried his body with decomposers like lime,,, but now even after 450 years , his body is fresh.. the church had many interestin paintings as well...
We visited two temples in goa.. the temples of goa have muslim influence on indian architecture , n have mosque like structure in the top.. they r so different from the other temples...there is a tower in the entrance,,,
Sri Mangesh temple is a shiva temple.. shiva is generally a very angry god n hence the idol is kept inside two prahahras n immidiately closed after pooja.. v had a chance 2 c a very old chariot as well.. it was a very interesting chariot with the stories of gods inscribed on them......
Shantha durga temple is considered to be the richest temple in goa, the face of goddess lakshmi is made of gold in the temple...
still i have a few more places left, which i will post in part 3
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