The Naval aircraft museum on the way to Bogmalo beach is another must see attraction.īuy Eat. One new attraction is the sea walk at Baina beach. However the parks and nearby beaches do provide an option to spend a few hours in complete leisure. Being mainly a business town, there isn't much to do for the tourist in Vasco da Gama. This is a great place to see vintage aircraft like the Sealands, Doves, Alizes, Seahawks, Vampires and Hughes Helicopters, along with the relatively newer Sea Harriers and a Super Constellation. Naval Aviation Museum ( behind the airport). But its absolutely lonely most of the time, nobody is around! It is not dangerous, but can be lonely! Velsao is a long fantastic beach a little far from the airport. It is very quiet and calm in the day time and the ideal time to visit would be early mornings or evenings.īeaches: Bogmalo is a small beautiful beach behind the airport. There is a side walk that takes you to the navy apartments nearby. You can sit on top and watch the ocean, or walk down to a temple at the shore. The route to the garden from the Vasco station, gives a good view of the ships in the ocean in the goan ship yards on your right hand side. The "Japananese Garden" up the hill in a place called Sada. Motorcycle taxis tend to be more reasonably priced, specially if you're travelling alone and don'e mind roughing it out a bit. 
You will find them usually painted in yellow-and-black (the colour of taxis in parts of India, including Mumbai) and their riders are locally called "pilots". Like in the rest of Goa, two-wheeler motorcycle taxis are available. Get around in a car, bus, scooter, or on foot. While there are no regular ships operating from Mormugao harbour, the cruise ship Superstar Libra calls at the port on its journeys from Mumbai to Lakshwadeep.
Also, all major services that connect Panaji to other cities usually have connections from Vasco.
There are frequent bus services to towns in neighbouring Karnataka and Maharashtra. There are several more connections to Mumbai and other places available from Margao, 24 km away.įor a list of trains, see the main article. Vasco da Gama (IR station code : VSG) is connected by direct trains to Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata and Chennai.
Thomson Airways fly from London-Gatwick and Manchester. Seasonal charter flights land at Dabolim Airport, direct from Europe. Goa's only international airport, at Dabolim, is on the outskirts of the expanding city, and is served domestically by Air India and internationally by AirAsia and Qatar Airways. This area's largest naval presence is INS Hansa, which includes the Dabolim Airport. Overlooking the Mormugao Port is the Navy's hydrographic school. Nearby is the naval hospital INS Jeevanti. INS Gomantak is the headquarters of the Indian Navy in Goa and sits on the hill overlooking St Andrew's Church and the Zuari river. The Indian Navy also has a conspicuous presence in Mormugao, with its vast campus, and its contested control over the Dabolim Airport enclave. Ship-builder Goa Shipyard Limited, that builds Navy and Coast Guard vessels, is built on the 1957-formed colonial barge-repair yard Estaleiros Navais de Goa. Between one-third of India's ore exports leave from here. 
Mormugao Port was constructed in 1888, and is today one of the major ports of India. Vasco - as Goa's most populous overgrown town is referred to, and the adjoining Mormugao port are busy, dusty and mainly commercial centres today. Vasco da Gama is a port city in the west coast Indian state Goa.
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