Miramar Beach
River-mouth beach lined with shacks and food stalls, popular for sunsets and festival crowds.
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This guide to Miramar Beach in Goa starts with something strange in the wet sand on some September mornings, a broken elephant trunk of chipped plaster that keeps washing back up instead of disappearing. It traces that fragment to Ganesh Chaturthi, the annual festival when families carry their household idols to the water chanting Ganpati Bappa Morya, believing the immersion dissolves the earthen god and carries away a year of misfortune. Follow the tideline toward the water and you can look for the same kind of debris the guide describes, half buried where the waves leave it.
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