We spend a couple of hours chitchatting outside our hotel. We realized that the south Goa doesn't do late night party :D After dinner we came back to the hotel at 12 in the night. We were surprised when the waiter approached us to take the last order at 10.30. The peace of mind you get visiting the south Goa was nowhere comparable to anything I had experienced so far. But the fort offers awesome view of the sea which immediately conjures scenes to mind from Dil Chahta Hai. The live karaoke added spark to the night. The fort is run-down and there's hardly anything left of what used to exist. Unlike the mad crowd in the north, the people here were in their mid 30's and were accompanied by the family. After freshening we visited Micky's which was just 2.5 km from our stay. Upon inquiring we learned Mickey's is a pretty famous shack for food and drinks.
The closest beach was just 700 meters so we decided to have dinner at a shack. The fort offers a spectacular view over the peninsula, the Chapora River and the beaches of Chapora, Anjuna and Vagator.We could feel how sweet the South Goan people were as compared to the North. Visitors can just see the mouths of these tunnels today. When the Portuguese rebuilt the fort in 1717, they added tunnels to allow to the fort’s defenders a safe retreat should their battlements be breached, a fortuitous decision as it turned out. There were also barracks and officer’s quarters to house the defenders within the fort’s walls, little of which remains today. Anthony that stood within the walls. However, it is no longer standing. The bastions are topped by cylindrical towers with lend an air of interest to the fort. The walls also had irregularly spaced bastions with large embrasures to hold canons. Travel from Panjim to Calangute at night, and you will see this church glimmering in the dark like a shimmering jewel in the fields.
From the romantic Calangute Beach, we now move on to the Saligao Church, one of the most beautiful churches in Goa. This makes them steep and difficult to climb. Saligao Church & Chapora Fort Dil Chahta Hai.
Its walls follow the natural slopes and drops of the peninsula. The fort is the only laterite fort in the village of Chapora. This was to protect their Northern boundary from incursions made by the Maharaja of Sawantwadi, who ruled over Pernem, on the opposite bank of the Chapora River. They built the Chapora fort over the remains of an old military outpost which belonged to the previous ruler, Sultan Adil Shah. The fort was held by the Portuguese from 1543. This was due to the fact that it was once the stronghold of the Sultanate of Bijapur. The village of Chapora and the fort, get their name from ‘Shahapura’ or, ‘the town of the Shah’. The Chapora fort is located in the Bardez taluka and is easily accessible from the market town of Mapusa.
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