Dhargalim Tourist Information

AFTER a pretty long sabbatical I was visited by the itch to hit the rural roads once again, before the rains. The quaint road slithered snakelike into the green, idyllic innards of a pristine village called Dhargalim.

Unlike my previous visit, I didn't have to drive along the ramshackle steel-bridge leading from Colvale to Dharglaim across the silvery Chapora river. The steel bridge has now been replaced by a concrete bridge, after villagers had waited for several years. On top of the bridge, we stopped to talk to a lone, aging elder who preferred to walk. He could have easily travelled to hill-bedecked, water-lapped Dhargalim, from neighbouring Colvale, by any of the colourful, intermittently plying buses.

"Tumim vinchartat mhunnun sangtam," (Since you ask, I'll tell you), the man said when we asked he why he took the trouble to walk the distance. "Years ago, I had decided that I would only walk to Dhargalim...We needed a bridge very badly. I aged while I waited for the dream to materialise. The mukhel montri (chief minister) finally inaugurated this bridge recently. Now I can walk comfortably and visit my old pals to relive our past," said the Colvale-based, elderly Dhargalkar. He had already lost the typical Pernem Konkani accent and talked like a Bardezkar.

It's a good 10-km drive North of Mapusa to reach the blissful isolation of Dhargalim, across the Chapora river. In serene Dhargalim, one feels distancing himself or herself from the central, more developed and densely populated talukas of Salcete, Ilhas and Bardez…virtually breaking away from familiar Goa.

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