Full Day Tour
PANJIM / OLD GOA / TEMPLE / SPICE PLANTATION
09:00 HRS PICK UP FROM THE HOTEL.
10:30 HRS VISIT PANJIM CITY, HERE ONE WILL BE GIVEN 30 MINUTES FOR SHOPPING TO TAKE BACK SOME MEMORIES OF GOA. GOA IS KNOWN FOR CASHEW NUTS AND MOTHER OF PEARLS CHANDELIERS.
1100 HRS PROCEED TO OLD GOA WHICH IS CALLED THE ROME OF THE ORIENT FOUNDED BY ADIL SHAH IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE 16TH CENTURY, LATER CONQUERED BY ALPHONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE IN 1510.
1130 HRS VISIT THE BASILICA OF BOM JESUS BUILT IN RED STONE IN 3 ARCHITECTURAL STYLES AND HOUSES THE RELICS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER IN A SPLENDID MAUSOLEUM OF MARBLE AND SILVER.
1200 HRS ALSO VISIT THE IMPRESSIVE SE CATHEDRAL WITH ITS NUMEROUS CHAPELS, WHICH IS THE FIRST RELIGIOUS MONUMENT ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THE VICTORY OF ALFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE OVER ADIL SHAH.
1230 HRS PROCEED TO SHREE SHANTADURGA TEMPLE.
13:00 HRS SHREE SHANTADURGA TEMPLE HAS AN IMPRESSIVE IDOL OF GODDESS SHREE DURGA WHO MEDIATED BETWEEN SHREE VISHNU AND SHREE SHIVA AND STOPPED THE FIERCEFUL WAR GOING ON BETWEEN THE TWO. SHE IS FLANKED BY VISHNU AND SHIVA ON BOTH THE SIDES. THIS CURRENT TEMPLE STRUCTURE OF SHREE SHANTADURGA DEVI WAS BUILT DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1713 A.D TO 1738 A.D.
13:30 HRS PROCEED TO SPICE PLANTATION.
1400 HRS ARRIVE SPICE PLANTATION, AT THIS PLANTATION ONE CAN ACQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH A VARIETY OF SPICES AND TROPICAL PLANTS. SPICES SUCH AS CLOVE, PEPPER AND CINNAMON ARE GROWN IN ABUNDANCE. ACQUIRE VALUABLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE USES OF DIFFERENT PLANTS AND SPICES FOLLOWED WITH GOAN BUFFET LUNCH.
1530 HRS PROCEED BACK TO THE HOTEL.
17:00 HRS ARRIVE HOTEL.
