AUGUSTO RODRIGUES
VAGATOR: At last, O Heraldo report “Trance fest nightmare at Dream Beach turtle site” provided the much-needed relief for turtle lovers, environmentalists, locals and foreigners in and around Vagator and Anjuna, as the stage set up for the six-day trance music festival “Karacus Marakus” at Dream Beach, was finally dismantled hours after
the report.
A Kerala lad, who bought a ticket, said, “The festival is going to be held at Origens on the hill at Vagator. No messages have been circulated on the website or the site where tickets can be booked but I have been
intimated.”
“There was no activity on the beach following the O Heraldo report. Were they to have the party on the beach, work on the stage would have started. Instead, they are building a small stage at Origens Jungle Club on top of Vagator Hill,” disclosed a local on the condition of anonymity.
“I have neither given permission to anybody nor have we received any application to hold any festival at Origens,” stated Dominic Pereira, Anjuna Comunidade president.

