Old Goa

Took a trip out to Old Goa, clinging to the back of a motorbike taxi. It`s the old Portuguese capital, from were the state was run from for a few hundred years before malaria and Cholera forced the inhabitants nearer the coast. It still has some amazing old churches in various states of ruin. One, the Basilica of Bom Jesus, houses the body of  St. Francis Xavier. Apparently the body is incorruptible and you can still see the old boy lying inside. Every ten years they take him out for an airing and millions of pilgrims come to pay their respects. Form what I could see he did look a bit withered. He`s missing an arm as well as it was hacked of and sent to the Pope, where it magically wrote his name. Paul Daniels has nothing on these Siants. There is also a wondrous cross on which the figure of Jesus has been known to move and attempt to speak. No words were heard, so not quite as skillful as Ray Allen, but I guess it gives Emu a run for his money. Walked back to Panjim so have a few more blisters.
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