Beautiful Collem Goa || Goa In Monsoon || Hoi Saiba

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Among the most beautiful villages along Goa’s borders is Collem. A portion of the Bhagwan Mahaveer wildlife sanctuary, along with its distinct flora and fauna, is part of the village
. With the majestic Sahyadri mountain ranges encompassing it, River Mhadei flowing through it and the Dudhsagar waterfalls being its crowning glory, Collem
“Many Goemkars, who came to the village for official or personal work, did not go back to their original villages and became its residents. No one likes to leave Collem. Even today, people go for their livelihood to Panaji and beyond, but return in the evening,” says Nandish Venkatesh Naik Dessai, Laksha Dhoi Fode and Mauricio Joaquim D’Costa, all panchayat ward members.
No one in the village is sure about the origin of the word ‘Collem’, but they associate it with ‘Kulem’, the earlier name of the village. “The Portuguese rulers had difficulty in pronunciation of the original name ‘Kulem’ and they got it changed to ‘Colem’. After 1961, the spelling of the word ‘Colem’ was changed in official gazetted records to ‘Collem’,” says Prakash Khandeparkar of Bazar Vaddo.The Rakshak Mallik Mahadev or Malikeshwar Temple is home to the gram devata (village deity). The Portuguese-era Colem railway station has connected the village to the outside world for over a century.









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