Things to do in Anjuna
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German Bakery
Leafy and filled with prayer flags and jolly lights, this is a perfect place for a huge lunch chosen from an equally huge menu. Tofu balls in mustard sauce with parsley potatoes and salad is a piled-high winner at Rs150. Wi-fi is available for a fairly steep Rs100 per hour.
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Anjuna Flea Market
Without doubt the most important date in the Anjuna diary, market day sees scores of local and expat vendors descending on the market site at the far south of the beach, to haggle the day away over clothing, jewellery, souvenirs and a good deal, these days, of usual tourist tat. Pick through the rubbish (underfoot, quite literally) to seek out treasure, including sparkling ceiling hangings, dancing dolls, and posh frocks made from dazzling saris. Even if you don’t come home loaded with shopping, it’s an unmissable event, where you’ll find Goa’s old faithful hippies mingling with I Heart Goa–clad Indian tourists, package-holiday Brits and Russians, and young backpackers in…
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Cafe Orange Boom
Just past Cafe Diogo, on the opposite side of the road, this nice little place has good food and friendly service, with a useful noticeboard for catching up on Anjunan goings-on.
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Andy’s Tattoo Studi
If you’re looking to embellish yourself while in town, try Andy’s Tattoo Studio, attached to San Francisco Restaurant, where the Anjuna cliffside slides down to meet the beach. Drop in to make an appointment and receive a price quote for your permanent souvenir.
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Shiva Valley
Shiva Valley is a very popular place for an evening drink, an alternative crowd and the odd impromptu party.
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Oxford Arcade
The massive Oxford Arcade, just next to the Starco crossroads, is a fully fledged supermarket, complete with shopping trolleys, ice-cold air-conditioning and checkout scanners. Hallowed ground for foreigners who pay dearly for little luxuries, it also sports a bakery, toiletries department, pet food, wine department and children’s toys. Come Christmas, this is the place to buy your tinsel and baubles, fake tree and kids’ gifts to stack beneath it.
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Purple Valley Yoga Retreat
Purple Valley Yoga Retreat, based in nearby Assagao village, is a popular upscale retreat set amid frangipani-scented tropical gardens and offers one- and two-week residential courses in ashtanga yoga. Rates begin at £390 for one week, and include accommodation and delicious all-vegetarian meals. A range of beauty therapies and ayurvedic treatments is also available on-site for course participants.
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Brahmani Centre
Brahmani Centre is a friendly drop-in centre, which opens its doors from November to April, and offers daily classes in ashtanga, vinyasa, hatha, dynamic, kundalini, restorative and, intriguingly ‘superhero acro-flow’ yoga, as well as pranayama meditation. There’s no need to book: just turn up 15 minutes before the beginning of class, to secure space enough to spread your yoga mat.
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Languna Anjuna
Even if the food’s not up to much at languid Laguna Anjuna, its shaded terrace makes a great place for a cold drink – though spray yourself liberally with repellent to avoid becoming food for mosquitoes the size of mice. There’s a pool table inside the mansion-turned-bar for shooting a frame or two, and a sophisticated, old-world feel that makes it a joy to imbibe here.
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Om Made Cafe
A highlight on Anjuna’s clifftop strip, this cheery little place offers striped deckchairs from which to enjoy the views and the simple, sophisticated breakfasts, sandwiches and salads. Go for a raw papaya salad with ginger and lemongrass (Rs170), accompanied by a chickoo (small, sweet fruit of the sapodilla tree) and coconut smoothie or a glass of ‘perfumed water’ (Rs20).
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Martha’s Breakfast Home
As the name suggests, Martha’s speciality are her all-day breakfasts, served up in a quiet garden on the way down to the flea-market site. The porridge and juice may be mighty tasty, but the star of the breakfast parade is undoubtedly the piping-hot plates of waffles, just crying out to be smothered in real maple syrup.
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Cafe Diogo
Probably the best fruit salads in the world are sliced and diced at Cafe Diogo, a small locally run cafe on the way down to the market. Also worth a try are the generous toasted avocado, cheese and mushroom sandwiches, the jumbo fry-ups, and the unusual gooseberry lassi.
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Avalon Sunset
Good food, a pool table, a chill-out area, free wi-fi and rooms for rent (Rs400 and up) make this a great representative of Anjuna’s clifftop restaurant parade. There’s daily yoga on the roof, too; call in for class times.
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Whole Bean
This simple, tasty, tofu-filled health-food cafe – which proudly announces itself as ‘Anjuna’s premier soy destination’ – focuses on all things created from that most versatile of beans.
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Munches
Near the Starco crossroads, this ever-popular place, serving up the full list of travellers’ favourites, is a good choice for whenever any attack of the munchies demands you munch.
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Dhum Biryani & Kebabs
Next door to the cheekily titled Come Look My Shop, this place is loved by visitors and locals alike, for its consistently good and fantastically tasty kebabs.
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Maria’s Tea Stall
For a quick market shopping stop, look out for teensy Maria’s Tea Stall, selling tasty chai and snacks made by colourful elderly local Maria.
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Curlies
Curlies is a very popular place for an evening drink, an alternative crowd and the odd impromptu party.
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