Margao Cultural Walk - I recently joined the Margao Cultural Walk with Soul Travelling, and it was a fantastic experience! Ambassador Zena shared engaging stories about Margao’s Portuguese-Goan heritage, taking us through old houses, churches, and markets. A wonderful way to discover the city's hidden gems in just a few hours!

Margao walk - I recently did a walk trail in South Goa, and it was a fantastic experience! The trail was not only scenic but also very informative. Zena and Heidi were incredibly helpful and made the whole experience even better with their insights. Had a great time, and I’d highly recommend it!

A historical glimpse of Margao - The view was amazing, although the tour guide can drop some formalities along the tour, rest everything was fine. Food op

Margao in a couple hours. - Nice trip and well conducted. Take you on a quick tour of the old Margao area and explain much about the buildings, culture and history of the same. Includes a nice tea at a great pastry shop.

Goa, a lot more - Seeing Goa with a lens of history was a long wish. Zena was our guide and she took us around Margao, patiently answering our questions. Goa has piqued our curiosity and we will definitely come back for more.

Beautiful experience - Attended the MCW trail with Jaden and he definitely delivered it beautifully! He explained the history of Goa and also about the beautiful city of Margao.

Explore the “Real” Goa! - The experience was truly amazing and a huge shoutout to Jade & Heidi, Because of them I know a real side of Goa not the one which is known in the mainstream. Took time to explain each and everything in detail! Will surely be back for another trails and with more people next time! :)

Goa through the eyes of Soul Travelling - I really enjoyed the cultural walk with Solo travelling, especially with Zena Coutinho who guided me with a detailed tour about Margao, while also keeping the tour very personalized and suited to my own taste and keeping discussions super interesting. A must do while in Goa!

“Poee’tic” Margao! - Soul Travelling is highly recommended for all who come to Goa. It literally is food for the soul. They curate off beat experiences centered around Goa’s heritage. To celebrate my wife’s birthday we indulged in an experience of seeing traditional Goanese Poee bread being made by a baker who is retired (Mr. Godinho) plus making our own breads and partaking traditional Goan Date Wine. We were met by Zena Coutinho - our ambassador - an absolute live wire, passionate about preserving Goan history, knowledgeable, respectful with the people who are showing the heritage and wonderful at managing guests! Our trip started from an Italian restaurant - Da Tita by Magic Italy (a beautiful place). From there we went to Mr. Godinho’s bakery - an old bakery with a really old traditional mud oven (this was like seeing being transported into an era eons ago) being run by a very young in spirit 77 year old man who would would give people half his age a run for their money. It was so instructive to see him work with his hands teaching us the spirit of industriousness, dignity of labour, fierce self pride and the need to honour and preserve heritage. What he showed was pure skill and commitment to his craft - an absolute rarity in today’s times. We had so many questions of him. But he answered all of them with a beatific smile - never getting disturbed. We saw him roll the dough into the different breads - Poee, Lena, KanKon etc. (please pardon my spellings - not done with the intent to hurt sentiments), proof them, flatten them into different shapes (for the Poee he used a bran mix) while his assistant (tough guy) went about readying the oven by removing the wood, cleaning the oven and then reusing the waste for fertiliser/proofing the oven top. And now comes the bugle worthy part. Both of them then put the breads in one by one and in 5 mins we had the freshly baked breads - hot and drool worthy, healthy (the Poee). We then had the most deliciously divine experience when Zena gave us the Poee bread slathered with butter!!!!! Pure Food Heaven. :-) After troubling Mr. Godinho for some pics (who sportingly obliged us) we then went to the next part of the trail - to the Majorda station (a must visit for all train lovers!) opposite to the bakery where every Independence Day a Sathyanarayana Pooja is organised (a nugget of information shared by Mr. Godinho again). As we sat on the station bench, Zena took over in full zeal and shared with us a turbo charged history lesson (using her teaching experience!) weaving in Goa, it’s history and the history of Poee. It was fascinating to hear and answer questions like school kids 😊. And then there were the customary selfies on the railway tracks - fulfilling our inner SRK so to say. From there on was the last part of the experience trail - the “make your own sandwich from the bread you got from the bakery”. We went back to Da Tita where a whole veg filling spread (me being a meat lover was a tad disappointed 😊) was there. In my fam there was a competition on who made the best sandwich. I used my culinary skills background to create a melange of flavours (side note: see how easily food reviews are written by using certain big words without ever describing the food in its truest detail!!) and naturally won 😊😊. Da Tita has a wonderful lemonade that was served to us and one that cannot be missed! What made the trip special was that my wife’s birthday too was celebrated post that!! And this is how the 3 hour experience journey came to an end! A big thank you to Team Soul Travelling. Pratik Joshi was so prompt and ensured that we were connected to the right person. And then Zena took over and made the experience so memorable. Thank you once again. You have left us craving for more. We will use other trails the next time we are back. And of course - you are highly recommended. Duh! 🙄

Explore the unknown - Amazing trail, lots of knowledge about ancient culture. Zenna was a fun host too. Would definitely recommend if in Margao City