10 Things That Indians Need To Stop Doing In Goa

India's cheap version of Thailand, Goa for ages has been the prison break we need in our lives. The sultry beaches, the sizzling food, the smashing babes. All of this, infuses us with Duracell rabbit like energy to party all night to wake up feeling like Bradley Cooper from Hangover, next morning. While it scores ten on ten on fun, beauty and debauchery, it's not entirely devoid of eyesores. Here's a list of must don'ts you might wanna pack in your bagpack if you're planning a trip to Goa. 

Disclaimer, keeping them in mind may or may not get you laid, but it will up your coolness, I promise. 

1. Flashing Rupa underwear and Banyaan.

Admit it guys, you look nothing like this while coming out of the sea.

2.Wearing bridal make up and jewelry to the beach. 

Agreed darling, you just got married but do you really think the red flowers on your swimsuit match with your red bangles. 

3. Walking up to women on the beach with fraandship requests. 

Honestly, It's creepier to hear "Hey wanna a nice company to party" in person.

4. Couples on the beach, posing like Jack and Rose from Titanic.

Give us a break, it's not 1997 folks.

5. Drunk, I-don't- know- where -we- are- going -or- who- we- will- run -over -now-driving.

Be a serial kisser, not a serial killer.

6.  Speaking in queer accent to pick up foreigners.

Each time I hear an Indian boy say "Whar yoo from?" I just feel like telling him"Can you please repeat this in English".

7. Imposing trance music on anything that moves.

I feel like slapping every bloke who thinks Goa is fun only for trance lovers.

 

8. Bragging about their amazing alcohol capacity.

Big deal, if you develop a live-in relationship with beer in Goa, you will probably die of liver failure before you turn 40.

9. People please spare us your Goa: Fun in the sun album where you have tagged all the food you ate there.

Let's take a minute to remind ourselves that Goa isn't Miami and we aren't in the 90's.

10. Guys clicking pictures of semi-clad women behind their sunglasses.

You really think that trick goes unnoticed? 

10 Fun Characters We Meet At Every Holi Party

Nothing brings out the vibrancy of India like the festival of Holi. It’s the one festival where adults and children come together and play their hearts out sprinkling and spraying each other with colour. Now we’ve all had our share of unique Holi parties but there are certain characters who you will invariably run into at every Holi party. Here’s a list of 10 such truly interesting characters who are present at pretty much every Holi party.

1. The Egg Man

This guy gets messy, real messy because his chief weapon during Holi are eggs and if you’re really unlucky rotten eggs.

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2. The Sniper

Unseen to the untrained eye, the Sniper will attack you with water balloons and pichkaris without you even knowing what hit you.


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3. The Terminator

Ok now this guy is really ready to play Holi. Armed with big ass bazookas with 5 litre capacity, this guy is ruthless, armed & dangerous. He will paint the town red, green, blue & what not.

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4. Holi Balboa

This is that guy at every Holi party who bears the brunt of most of the colour attacks but the thing is he keeps coming back for more. No matter how many water balloons or how many litres of coloured water you empty on him, he just will keep coming back.

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5. The Abstainers

These people show up in the middle of a Holi party and demand to be spared amidst all the color play. Why? Because technically they don't play Holi.

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6. The Wild Card

No one can predict what this guy will come armed with for Holi. From ink to ripe tomatoes to other weapons of mass color-destruction, everything is fair during Holi in his books.

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7. The Kamikazes

In an effort to ward off Holi players, they pour coloured water on themselves and smear their own faces and clothes with colour. Thereby reducing the chances of getting attacked by colour. Genius if you ask us!

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8. The Shielder

These are the people who will do anything to avoid getting sprayed on by colour. But what they mostly do is push you in the line of fire and make you their shield!

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9. The guy who never shows up

Technically, we are supposed to get into the Holi spirit with this guy but invariably he doesn't turn up. So from being a guy who was to make it, he becomes the guy who everyone keeps waiting for!

World's 10 longest highways

The United States boasts of some of the world’s longest highways.

Take a look at the 10 longest highways in the world according to roadtraffic-technology.com

Pan American Highway

Rank: 1

Total length: 48,000 kms

The Pan-American Highway is the world's longest ‘motorable road,’ according to Guinness Book of World Records.

The Highway links almost all nations in North and South America except for a stretch of 100 km called the Darien Gap, a forest and swampland.

Highway 1, Australia

Rank: 2

Total length: 14,500 kms

Highway 1 is a network of highways that goes around the Australian continent, joining all mainland state capitals.

More than a million people use this highway everyday.

Trans-Siberian Highway

Rank: 3

Total length: 11,000 kms

Trans-Siberian Highway starts from St. Petersburg and stretches to Vladivostok in Russia. 

A part of the route across the Asian Highway Network is called the AH6.

Trans-Canada Highway

Rank: 4

Total length: 7,821 kms 

The Trans-Canada Highway is a transcontinental highway system that connects ten provinces in Canada.

The highway was opened in 1962.

Golden Quadrilateral Highway, India

Rank: 5

Total length: 5,846 km

The largest highway project in India connects many of the major cities. 

The network connects Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and other cities like Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Surat and Bengaluru, Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar.

China National Highway 010

Rank: 6

Total length: 5,700 km

China's National Highway runs from Tongjiang in Heilongjiang to Sanya in Hainan. 

It is also the longest highway in China.

US Route 20

Rank: 7

Total length: 5,415 kms

The US Route 20 is a coast-to-coast road network.

The highway's eastern terminus is in Boston and western terminus is in Newport.

US Route 6

Rank: 8

Total length: 5,158 kms

It is the second-longest highway in the United States and the longest continuous highway.

It is also called Grand Army of the Republic Highway.

Interstate 90 (I-90), US

Rank: 9

Total length: 4,860.2 kms

Interstate 90 (I-90) is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States. 

Interstate 80 (I-80), US

Rank: 10

Total length: 4,666 kms 

Interstate 80 (I-80) is a transcontinental limited-access highway that stretches from San Francisco to Teaneck. 

It was opened to traffic in 1986.

16 airports that boast of amazing records

There are some interesting airports around the world. Take for example the Paro International Airport in Bhutan where only eight pilots are certified to land planes, or an airport where the plane's runway intersects a busy highway.

Fascinated? Read on to find out more about the amazing records of these 16 airports across the world...

Most international passengers

Airport: London Heathrow Airport

Location: Hillingdon, Greater London, United Kingdom

The airport has seen 6.65 crore or (66.47 million) passengers annually.

World's closest

Airport: Papa Westray and Westray Airport, neighbouring islands in the Scottish Orkney

Location: Scotland

Papa Westray Airport is best known for being one of the two airports joined by the shortest scheduled flight in the world, a leg of Loganair's inter-island service, to Westray Airport.

The distance is 2.8 km and the scheduled flight time including taxiing is two minutes.

World's busiest

Airport: Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

The airport has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998, and by number of landings and take-offs since 2005, according to Wikipedia.

It states that Hartsfield-Jackson held its ranking as the world's busiest airport in 2012, both in passengers and number of flights, by accommodating 95 million passengers (more than 260,000 passengers daily) and 950,119 flights.

Many of the nearly one million flights are domestic flights from within the United States.

World's shortest runway

Airport: Juancho E.Yrausquin Airport

Location: Island of Saba, Netherlands Antilles

The only airport on the island, has a runway of just 400 metres. The short runway created a risk for landing and take-off. Due to the shorter runway only small planes can operate here.

The airport is flanked by hills on one side and sea starts where the runway ends.

Highest in the world

Airport: Daocheng Yading Airport

Location: Tibet

At 4,411 metres above sea level, Daocheng Yading is the world's highest civilian airport, surpassing Tibet’s Qamdo Bamda Airport - the previous record holder.

Lowest in the world

Airport: Bar Yehuda Airfield

Location: Israel

Located at 1,240 ft below mean sea level, Bar Yehuda Airfield is an hour and a half drive from Jerusalem.

It is used as an alternate airport for charter and sightseeing flights.

Largest airport building

Airport: Dubai International Airport

Location: Dubai

Upon its opening in October 2008, Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport became the second largest building building in the world by the floor space.

It has 12.76 million sq ft of floor space, second to China’s New Century Global Centre, a multipurpose building in Chengdu.

Busiest cargo airport

Airport: Hong Kong International Airport

Location: Hong Kong

The airport handles 40.62 lakh (4.06 million) metric tonnes of cargo annually. It is also one of the hubs for Oneworld alliance and Asia Pacific cargo hubs for UPS Airlines.

World's most isolated airport

Airport: Mataveri International Airport

Location: Easter Island

Mataveri International Airport is 3,759 kilometres from Santiago, Chile. The airport was once designated as an abort site for the U.S. Space Shuttle when polar orbital flights from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California were planned, according to Wikipedia.

Largest in the world

Airport: King Fahd International Airport

Location: Saudi Arabia

It is the world's largest airport in terms of land area and occupies 780 square kilometres.

Most runways in a single airport

Airport: Chicago O'Hare International Airport

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago O'Hare International has eight runways. Earlier, the airport shared the crown with Dallas Fort Worth International as each has seven runways. In October 2013, O'Hare added its eight runway.

Scariest in the world

Airport: Paro Airport

Location: Bhutan

With surrounding peaks as high as 18,000 ft it is considered one of the world's most challenging airports, and only eight pilots in the world are certified to land at the airport, according to Wikipedia.

It further states that flights at Paro are allowed under visual meteorological conditions only and are restricted to daylight hours from sunrise to sunset.

Longest non-stop flights

Airport: Dallas-Fort Worth and Sydney

Location: US and Australia

The longest non-stop flight used to between Singapore and the US but in December last year it was discontinued. Currently, Qantas Flight 7 or QF 7, is the longest flight in the world.

The journey takes 15 hours 25 minutes and covers a distance of 13,804 kilometres.

Most cars on the runway

Airport: Gibraltar International Airport

Location: Gibraltar

Being a tiny peninsula of only 6.8 square kilometres, there’s a lack of flat space on it. The territory’s airport therefore has a busy road bisecting the runway. Residents take this road to enter the neighbouring country, Spain.

The airport handles about 30 planes in a week and the road closes every time a plane has to land or take off.

Most expensive

Airport: Hong Kong International Airport

Location: Hong Kong

The airport is one of the world’s most expensive transport infrastructures. It was constructed at a cost of $20 billion.

Coldest in the world

Airport: Ice Runway

Location: McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

The Ice Runway is the principal runway for the US Antarctic Program. The annual sea-ice runway for wheeled aircraft is constructed at the start of each season and is used until early December when the sea ice begins to break up, according to Wikipedia.

The best airports in India

Airports in India have been spending huge money to upgrade their existing infrastructure. Recently, Mumbai airport operator GVK spent Rs 5,500 crore on just one terminal - T2.

In 2010, Delhi’s T3 terminal opened up after five years of development and spending of Rs 12,700 crore, according to media reports.

With airports in India seeing unprecedented developments, which have caught fancy of the fliers? Which offer the best services and are overall the best.

Ahmedabad International Airport

Rank: 9

Code: AMD

City: Ahmedabad

Kolkata International Airport

Rank: 8

Code: CCU

City: Kolkata

Goa International Airport

Rank: 7

Code: GOI

City: Goa

Amritsar Raja Sansi Int'l Airport

Rank: 6

Code: ATQ

City: Amritsar

Chennai International Airport

Rank: 5

Code: MAA

City: Chennai

Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport

Rank: 4

Code: BOM

City: Mumbai

Bengaluru Int'l Airport

Rank: 3

Code: BLR

City: Bangalore

Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi Int'l Airport

Rank: 2

Code: HYD

City: Hyderabad

Delhi Indira Gandhi Int'l Airport

Rank: 1

Code: DEL

City: Delhi