7 Disgusting Beaches to Never Ever Visit

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Calangute Beach, India

Goa is known for being a party city, but that probably doesn’t include beach parties unless you want it crashed by a stray cow. Calangute Beach in Goa is dotted with stray cattle that roam freely across the sands, bothering tourists and defecating wherever they please. While some visitors take delight in the bovine wanderers, others don’t know what to make of them.

Stakeholders in local tourism want to clean up the beach to make it less cow friendly and more human friendly and there was at one time talk of hiring a full-time cattle wrangler.

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