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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pratincol" data-source="post: 3185050" data-attributes="member: 65801">The Dona Sylvia is certainly chatty.There is always someone around the pool bar to converse with.It is a friendly hotel without being loud and brash.The hotel grounds alone are a veritable nature reserve.Not only are there thousands of well established shrubs and trees, there is a huge lawned area between the apartments and the beach.It is waterded every morning and it attracts lots of birds as they bathe in the puddles or feed on the soggy grass.I reckon you will find enough birds around Cavellosim to keep you happy.You can also access the areas like Agonda which lie outside the main Goa resorts.There are some lovely drives and scenery within minutes of leaving Cavellosim. Agonda is a beautiful beach where the locals protested against the building of a huge hotel.The developers actually built the shell before they were thwarted.It is now almost camaflouged  and covered in trees and shrubs and the home to monkeys and birds.I could have done a cartwheel of joy when I saw it!For once local pressure had beaten greedy developers.Thomas Cook used to do packages to the Doa Sylvia.I am not sure if they still do.</blockquote>