Anjuna Beach
Sandy stretch that grew from a hippie trading post into North Goa's original flea-market beach.
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This guide to Anjuna Beach in Goa follows the wanderers who arrived along the hippie trail in the 1960s, including Eight Finger Eddie, born Yertward Mazamanian near Boston, who settled here in the mid-1960s with more nerve than cash. It traces how travelers running out of money began selling their possessions on blankets in the sand, and how Eddie turned that swap meet into a weekly flea market in 1975 alongside a soup kitchen for anyone with nothing left to trade. Wednesdays are still market day, with rows of stalls now selling Tibetan silver and Nepalese wool.
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