After Hampi we took a long and arduous, 24 hour journey to the north of Goa to a small, idyllic, hippie-infested beach called Arambol. It took 4 buses, 2 trains, one motorbike taxi (which was interesting- they drove us over a foot bridge!) and one auto-rickshaw and one whole day! Arambol is lovely though, well worth the journey. More lazing on the beach, more scooter rental and lots of 8% kingfisher, but not a whole lot of activity! We did a day trip to Anjuna to visit the market, and finished it off listening to some psychadellic sitar-rock fusion in the bar at the end, with the sun going down behind us. Very relaxing and probably our last beach stop so we made the most of it!
On the last day, ellen suffered the unwanted attention of a very interesting creature we have named Morris the Monster. Turned out to be a leaf mantis- a praying mantis which looks exactly like a collection of dead leaves with a horrible face and claws! He was about 6inches long. We also saw a big snake (about 5 feet long) behind our flat and we had a very noisy family of rats (who popped in occasionally of an evening to say hello) living in our roof.
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