This beach is named after the name of the daughter of a viceroy. Her name is Dona Paula de Menzes who threw herself off the cliff, when she refused permission to marry a local fisherman. This beach offers you an great opportunity to the tourists to have sunbath and also do some sort of shopping from local vendors. Here you can enjoy almost all the water recreation activities. Here sports club offers you water-scooter, cycle and motorboat rides. Other water sports include windsurfing, parasailing, water-skiing, toboggan ski-biscuit, skibob, sports fishing, snorkeling, harpoon fishing, kayaking, and yachting. It is located 7 kilometers west to the Goa’s capital Panaji. It is also nestled by the rocky hammer-shaped headlands that divide the Zuari and Mandovi estuaries. Here you find that this beach is fringed by tall palm trees and casuarinas groves. The climate here is equable and moist throughout the year. While it is very pleasant and temperate from October to May. As it is raining from June to September. May is the warmest month of the year so it is advisable not to visit here in the month of May. Due to its proximity of the sea, the territory is generally humid and even during the summer months humidity is generally above 60 percent.
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