Meeting Mr. Marius Fernandes- The Festival Man Of Goa
One fine sunny morning, in the month of February, my family and I decided to go on a tour to Divar- one of the most remote islands of Goa located on the banks of the river Mandovi and not very far from the capital city of Panjim. All of us packed up and got ourselves ready to head on to a vehicle that would take us to the island and places in and around it. As we headed off to the vehicle, we saw a lot of decorations put on display somewhere if I can remember at the roundabout in Panjim on the occasion of the Carnival- a festival very much celebrated every year in Goa usually before the arrival of the Lenten week. On reaching the ferry station at a place in Ribandar not very far off from Panjim, we had to board the ferry that would take us to the island of Divar. So we had taken our vehicle onto the ferry boat which then boarded off to sail across to the island. Once we reached the island, we were then accompanied by one of the tour guides from Soul Travelling, a tour company that was ...