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Smitten by Shivya Nath's @shivya last post about Goa (read on below)
Author of The Shooting Star travel blog, Shivya is an inspiration as she explores the world of responsible travel from a solo female perspective...
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"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.” Anonymous ☔️
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"In 2013, when I had just set out on this nomadic journey, I had no idea what it meant to fall in love with the rains. Goa happened like pure serendipity that year. I learnt what it was like to travel slow, ride a bike getting drenched in the warm rain, see the forests (or what remains of them around Goa) come alive, spot peacocks dancing with joy, meet farmers in colourful raincoats hard at work in the lush green carpet that is their rice paddies, kayak among the mangroves, take a ferry to the river islands, wait for the bread man to deliver freshly baked poi on his bicycle, watch birds by the backwaters
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Since then, for 6 years in a row, Goa has called me back to renew that love for the rains - and for life itself. Things have changed every year - more construction, more cars, more abandoned paddies. Yet in the villages deep in the interiors of Goa, the rains still bring the same joy. Peacocks still dance in the rain, kingfishers hang out by the backwaters, farmers work hard in their lush green carpets, the cycling bread man goes door to door delivering poi
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I had no intention of coming back to Goa this year, but what can I say? I had a few weeks to kill, a ton of work to get through, a need to slow down somewhere beautiful. So here I am, falling in love with the rains all over again
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And you, do you love the monsoon in India too? Where have you most enjoyed the rains? "
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#theshootingstar
Want to know what's inside my Minimalist travel pack? My new video Extreme Minimalist Sustainable Travel Pack is up on my channel. Swipe up from my stories. Feel free to head over! Be sure to share with me what you love doing while traveling. What's your favorite activity? I love taking photos, venturing outdoors, meeting new people, and eating local Vegan food and fruits! I'm also sharing my upcoming 4 month trip announcement. Do you also have any travel plans coming up? Let me know ✈️✨
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“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
-Henry David Thoreau
#consciousadventurist captured by @dillonsaw
We spent the weekend in the Eco cabins on the nature reserve where we got engaged -Sweet sustainable living, complete with a compost toilet, fireplace as a heater and birds as an alarm clock. (Not having any cellphone reception was also a nice treat). I always manage to lose myself in a book that much better without having my phone as a distraction which is something I need to add to my list of “things I’m working on”. ⛰✨