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 You will fall
in love with this place. Situated among thickly forested rolling green
hills the area is known as Kalevana or Black Forest. Mayem Lake View is
an eco-resort ideal for lovers, picnickers and just perfect for the
scholar, the poet, the artist or the writer who needs solitude in a
place of extreme and tranquil beauty. Mayem is off the beaten track and
blissful guests swear this is one place they will return to again and
again. Our cottages at Mayem Residency are well furnished and
comfortable with beautiful vistas outside every window and balcony. The
complex comes with a restaurant which serves local as well as
continental meals. One can sit by the lake or go for long leisurely boat
rides and listen to the birds while drinking in the ambience of this
lovely quiet place. The best part of Mayem is the weather. A gentle cool
breeze blows throughout the day.
Around Mayem: The drive to Mayem is
fascinating as each village unfolds, one more beautiful than the other.
You pass small neat houses and large gracious sprawling mansions. Time
has not changed much here in these villages. The Corjuem Fort
is an interesting stop to make. It is a low fort which has a 360 degree
view of the surrounding villages. One can see as far as Panjim too. The
cable bridge which is 235-metre bridge with its graceful pylon rising 45
metres into the blue sky is lit with floodlights and is already a major
tourist attraction. One cannot help but stop, take a deep breath and
commit the memory of the view to the deepest recesses of your mind. This
view is spectacular, centuries old hills, vales and mangrove lined
MapusaRiver with the graceful lines of the
CorjuemBridge highlighting the natural beauty of the place.
The fort was actually just
a vantage point equipped with strong walls and cannon stations to
repulse invaders like Sambhaji. A strong square shape
built of laterite steep slope at the four corners rise up to the turrets
where the cannons must have been readied to rain shot down on pesky
invaders. The fort is said to have been built in 1705 by the Portuguese
and a small chapel sits to the right of the entrance itself.
Another must-visit site is
the Saptakoteshwar temple at Narve.
which is dedicated to Lord Saptakoteshwara, an
incarnation of Lord Shiva. There is an interesting story of this
particular deity Lord Saptakoteshwar whose fortunes rose and fell with
those of Goa. He was deity originally in a temple on DivarIsland
installed in that temple by the Kadamba kings. After
Goa fell to the Sultans the deity was buried and later found and a
temple constructed for it on Divar Island. It was moved to its present
site after the temple on Divar island was destroyed. Shivaji ordered its
renovation at its present site in 1688. The zatra of
Saptakoteshwar takes place in April.
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