Goa - Travel Information

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Goa In Goa the tourist enjoy's the advantage of easy accessibility and conveniently linked to each and every corner of the country and the world and can be reached by all means of transports i.e by Air, Water, Railway and Road. By Air : Goa's international airport, Dabolim, is 29 km from Panaji, on the coast near Vasco da Gama. Most of India's domestic airlines operate services here, as well as several direct charter companies that fly into Goa from the UK and Germany. There are numerous flights between Goa and Mumbai. Indian Airlines flies daily and Jet Airways has two flights daily. Sahara Airlines also flies to Mumbai and Delhi. Indian Airlines has daily direct flights to Delhi and Cochin, and four flights a week to Bangalore and Chennai.   By Railway : Now the lines of the Goa is transferred from meter-gauge to broad-gauge. Goa's two main stations are at Margao and Vasco da Gama. Seats and sleepers can be booked at either of these, or at the train reservation office in Panaji's Kadamba bus stand. Other useful stations on the Konkan route are Mapusa Road (Thivim) for Mapusa and Old Goa (Karmali) for Panaji. Railway which is now completed and it provides fast services to Goa from different cities of India. The convenient railhead for Panaji is Margao, 34 km. away. Konkan. Vasco-da-Gama and Margoa are connected by train with Bangalore, Belgaum, Hospet and Hyderabad and via Miraj to Bombay, Delhi and Agra. By Road : Goa has good road connections. Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka state road transport corporations all operate service out of Panaji's Kadamba bus stand. There are also services to Londa (where you can get a daily direct railway connection to Mysore every day), Hubli (a railway junction on the main Mumbai to Bangalore line, where you can also get trains to Gadag for both Bijapur and Badami, and Hospet and Hampi) and Belgaum. Many private operators have offices outside the entrance to the bus stand, with luxury and air-con buses to Mumbai, Bangalore, Hampi and other destinations. Most private interstate buses arrive and depart from a separate bus stand next to the Mandovi Bridge. Luxury buses can also be booked through agents in Margao, Mapusa and the beach resorts. Distances from Panaji(Capital of Goa) to the distinct places in Goa are as follows :

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