Gaya's Mahabodhi: Tumse Milne Ko Dil Karta hai, Tumhi Ho Jispe Dil Marta hai - Ashwani Kumar

A salty Tale by the Sea -- Goa Summertime
Goa is more known for its beaches, tanned flesh, food and carnival then for its salt. Here right next to Panjim, salt making goes on in the summer months. I guess since no tourists arrive here during that period, no one even mentions the existence of these historic mines which work on the principle of solar evaporation of the saline water that reaches up the Mandovi in the summer.
In Goa, during the months of summer, nothing moves, not even the breeze, it is...
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hot and sultry and almost impossible to think. The famous beaches are not happening as the water is so murky and full of churning that the currents are vicious.
The only activity that seems to occur during this hottest part of the year in Goa is the making of Salt and living life and dreaming of the monsoon to break and bring in the rains.
Anoop Negi
Taken on May 16, 2009
Patto, Panaji, Goa, IN
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