Arambol Beach
Laid-back stretch of sand backed by cliffside shacks, drum circles, and a freshwater lake just north.
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This guide to Arambol Beach in Goa opens with an arrest on the sand in April twenty twenty-three, when police handcuffed Svetlana Varganova, a fifty-nine-year-old Soviet swimming record holder and Olympic silver medalist who had spent years living near the beach. You'll hear who she was decades earlier, what officials say she had set up out of a rented house nearby, and how the investigation widened to a broader Russian-run network operating along this stretch of coast. It also traces Arambol's older identity as a countercultural haven, with its shacks, drum circles and freshwater lake, that made this loose, anything-goes atmosphere possible in the first place.
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