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Panjim’s Mangrove Board Walk

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Allys!! Good Morning my lovelies! It’s Friday – the best-est time of the week as I get to feature a place of my choice on my blog. Yes it is the best-est feeling to explore new places and then feature the same on the blog…! and You know what makes it special, your mails, your replies about how much you’ll love my work.

In this edition, I recently visited a place accidentally, it wasn’t a part of a plan as such but yes! I visited this place and I must say it is a really beautiful location. Upon interacting to the people and the guards, I got to learn that this place is open for the general public and it is recently inaugurated. However, not many people are aware about this place. This place is called the #MangroveBoardWalk

Picture clicked by a friend and Edited by be!

You know what fascinated me the most about this place was, the entire footbridge is built without cutting the natural mangroves, which makes it so rich and gives you a feeling of one with the nature. If one takes a closer look at the history, well the relationship that the Mangroves and Goa share is special. Well, now you will have a question why exactly they both share a special relationship. The answer is very simple. Goa is a house to about 16 different kind of mangroves and in our country, Goa is the state that has the best mangroves in the whole of India. So You will now agree about this special relationship.  The very concept of having a Board Walk in this place, not only serves as a tourist spot but also it is the very idea  that needs to be appreciated that this Board Walk was built without cutting down mangroves- In true sense – a step to preserve the identity of mangroves and appreciate the beauty that it brings to the state of Goa. Thus, this initiative makes this even special.

The place recently inaugurated is not known to many people. But hey! let’s not forget the publicity that no other medium can do, can be heavily done by social media. And when I visit a place, I at least make it a point to tell my one friend about it and ask my that friend to share the news about the same to another and the chain continues. Well, another plus point that I have is this blog – Which instantly connects to so many of you all.

Exploring this place happened all of a sudden as I told you! The story goes like this – we were hunting for a location to shoot a sequence for a feature programme and well, there you go! Here’s the link – PARSEKAR … ONE MAN – MANY DREAMS where I shot my bit for this video.

HOW TO GET HERE?

Just take the road heading towards Central Library, Panjim and Enter the parking side and keep walking till you see towards your left hand side the entrance of this beautiful Mangroves Footbridge.

TIPS OF THE DAY

  • If you are visiting this place, use a mosquito repellent cream to avoid mosquito bites.
  • While you click pictures be careful – try to avoid clicking pictures leaning on the bridge handrail.

This is once again another place one could visit if you are in the capital city of Goa – Panjim, Explore the true beauty and most importantly share photos using the hashtag of #MangroveBoardWalk, #TravelwithAllycaral or #BeingAllycaral on any social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or BlogLovin. Do Like, Comment and Share. It’s my favorite – M S Dhoni’s Birthday Week! Tomorrow is his birthday – 7th July! (I know that was out of context) Anyways, have an amazingly fantastic Weekend! Cheers to good times!

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Tower You need to visit, Once in Lisbon – BELÉM TOWER

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Hello My Beautiful Allys!

How are you doing this weekend? As promised I am back with another #BeingAllycaralFridayFeature . Today, lets visit the most beautiful structure at Lisbon, Portugal – The Belém Tower. Yes the Belém Tower or the Torré de Belém as it is referred to, is one of the most visited places in the beautiful city of Lisbon, Portugal. The Portuguese Word Belém is derived word from an English word called Bethlehem. This landmark was constructed in the year 1515, during Manuel I of Portugal’s rule.

If one takes a closer look at the tower, it is but evident that the same was built as a defensive system to guard the entrance of the city and to protect the access to the Tagus estuary which could be attacked by John  II of Portugal.  Today the tower is used as a symbol to incorporate and display to the world the maritime elements and symbols of discoveries done by prominent voyagers like Vasco de Gama and Pedro Cabral.

The tower was erected by the architect Francisco de Arruda on a small island on the right side of the river of Tagus surrounded by water on three sides. Built with the Manueline style, it includes many stonework motifs of the Discoveries, sculptures depicting historical figures. It has a roofed balcony on three sides which can be seen from the riverbank. Each balcony has the Cross of the Knights of Christ while below the altar is the Our lady of Good Fortune – a Gothic statue of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso. It is also believed that the statue of Our Lady of Safe Homecoming’s statue was a symbol of protection for sailors on their voyages.

Belém Tower is a world Heritage site declared by UNESCO and very precisely it summarised the entire well-being of this tower as “It is a reminder of the great maritime discoveries that laid the foundations of the modern world.”

FACTS TO KNOW:
The tower was erected on a small island on the riverbank of Tagus surrounded by water on three sides but however due to the shift in the river bank location, today the tower is present on the mainland.
Another interesting fact is that the architecture has a rhinoceros head facing the land below the west tower. It is said that this is the first rhino in Europe given to Manuel I as a present from India

BE CAREFUL:
The place is crowded so carefull about your belongings, especially handbags and passports.

 

#BEINGALLYCARAL AT BELÉM TOWER, LISBON:
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Have you noticed the Abbe Faria Statue in the capital?

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Abbé Faria Statue, Panjim

Hello Allys,

Welcome back to another Being Allycaral Friday Feature. Yes! It is my birthday month, as you must have learned in my previous post, I am all set to welcome my favorite week with this blog post. And What better way then writing it with my new extended blog family. This week, I thought of writing about another beauty of Panjim City, which I had only mentioned about it in my previous post of the Adil Shah Palace located in Panjim (https://allycaralgoa.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/destination-india-goa-adil-shah-palace-panjim/).
Yes, The state of Goa is known for several things but among these the capital is known for one more of a historical statue which is present in the heart of the capital city, Panjim. There might be several possibilities that you must have crossed this statue almost every single day. Must have seen it too, but because of all the hustle bustle of your day to day live, you must have surely neglected it. Well, that’s completely normal, things like these happens a couple of times. But as it is always said, it is better to take time out and visit the place than hearing about it for several times, and so I decided to visit this place just to see this statue.
The view at Night
For those who don’t have any clue where this statue is located. The place to get to the statue is very simple. If you are heading towards the Panjim City, Once you reach the Old Secretariat Building or also known as the Summer Palace of Adil Shah at Panjim keep heading straight if you are heading towards the Panjim City, the statue is  just after the Palace just before the

Here is the google map of the location of the statue – https://www.google.co.in/maps/dir/”/abbe+faria+statues+panjim/data=!4m5!4m4!1m0!1m2!1m1!1s0x3bbfc088984c075b:0x18a055542a6013f7?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9ydDBoonZAhUY4o8KHe2CAssQ9RcIkwEwEg

The Statue is towards your left hand side as you enter the Panjim City after the Post Office Stop

Well to give you a little information about this beautiful structure situated in the center of the Panjim City: This statue is of a prominent hypnotist and Luso Goan Catholic Monk, Mr. Abbé Faria. He was one of the pioneers of scientific study of hypnotism. Mr. Faria has deep roots in the state as he was born in Candolim, Bardez – Goa. This statue was a tribute for his work, it’s made up of bronze and depicts Mr. Faria in action of hypnotizing a woman. The same is presented just after the Old Secretariat building. There was several speculations about the sculptor who sculpted this structure one of which who’s names we get to know is of Mr. Ramchandra Pandurang Kamat, and the same was sculpted, in the year 1945.

So, the next time you are in the city, do not forget to visit this statue And yes very important, don’t forget to share your photos on instagram, facebook and twitter using the hashtag – #TravelwithAllycaral Looking Forward to see your wonderful pictures!

BE CAREFUL:
As the statue is centrally situated be careful while you stop for a photograph in this place. It is a place where heavy traffic passes so it is busy throughout the day.

TIP OF THE DAY:
Best time to click photo with the statue is during the afternoons, especially during lunch breaks as the inflow of traffic is quite less at that time.

#BEINGALLYCARAL AT Abbé Faria Statue, Panjim