A tropical enclave popular among American hippies in the 1960s, Goa—a state in western India that hugs the Arabian Sea—is now home to as many rustic yoga retreats as there are luxury hotels. Over the ...

Goa has been indelibly shaped by its 450 years of Portuguese rule, followed by an influx of hippies in the 1960s. Today, it’s the smallest state in India. A tropical paradise just an hour’s flight ...

Canacona: Palolem locals are worried about the rise in illegally operating massage parlours near Palolem beach. They said around 40 spas and parlours .

When I discovered Goa, a former Portuguese colony on India’s southwest coast, while backpacking around Asia in the mid-1990s, it was still very much a hippie place: makeshift beachfront shacks, ...

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