Kulagar (Plantation)

On Sunday, we went to one of our areca nut and beetle nut plantations near Ponda. A beautiful place, untouched and unchanged for decades. A Goa that most tourists never get to experience. In the picture below, you see channels developed to carry water from the stream gurgling at the foot of the hills, down into and through the plantation. When we reached there, all the townsfolk were up at the stream building a small dam using planks provided by the government, and mud.

On the way back, we stopped for chai at a small tapari run by this old lady and her son. Two of the three glass cupboards in the "hotel" were bare, and so were all the glass containers that usually have laddoos and other stuff. The third cupboard had a few biscuits and some chocolates. How do you run a hotel when you have nothing to share except love?