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           GOA TRAVEL GUIDE      A Guide to Off Beat Goa Travel  Mention the word “Goa” and scenes of lazily swaying palms, golden sands, dread-locked-beer-swilling-hippies, dance parties and yoga retreats probably come to mind. This beachside jewel of India was established as a firm favourite on the Hippy Trail of the ’70s, and the rest as they say… is history. Beach shacks and cocohuts have been (mostly) “upgraded” to makeshift plywood and in some places concrete: built supposedly to attract high-rollers; only the high-rollers didn’t really make it. Instead, mass, package-tourism has floated into Goa over recent decades, leaving a high tide of trash behind. Much of the coastline has fallen to mass tourism: At first from Europe, then from Russia, and now from with India,  too. In a way, it’s Goa’s own fault: once known as the land of hedonism, people flocked to get a taste for themselves. Along with the mass construction came minim...