Monsoon: Construction & Start-up. The first 2009-2010 season.

..and in the beginning...

there was an incredible amount of work!

For a variety of reasons, each year the guest house 'huts' along Goa's beaches are required to be newly constructed at the start of the season (November) and then taken down in April (storing the remaining 'good bits' away from the coast during the monsoon) . It's quite a process to annually re-build the huts (also known as 'shacks' in Indian parlance), and workers from all over western India are brought in for the construction period. Some guest houses - like the Monsoon - have permanent buildings that have rooms that are rentable during the building process, which provides an interesting view for the select early residents into the unique methods of creating such beautiful structures.

Dirk, Maren, and Fynn and their most excellent staff took over the reins of the guest house and restaurant from the Monsoon's innovative creator, Maya, in 2009. They had some very large flip-flop sandals to fill, and they've very successfully created a space that is a joy to experience.

Please click on the pics to enlarge.

For those who want to just sit back and watch the pictures (with assorted music) of images (below) of the building of the Monsoon in Dirk and Maren's first year (2009), just start the YouTube video (with different video resolutions) below (you can still just click on the single pictures below for larger sized pictures).