Go Goa XIV: Goa Chakra - A tribute to the Wheel

Intricately Carved Wooden Wheel

Goa Chakra is a part Goa Chitra Museum with a huge hall dedicated to carriages from various eras and from various states of India. 

A Hand Drawn Rickshaw from Kolkata

Some Saddles & a Cart

From the Royal state of Rajasthan

UP's Rickshaw that you can still see in most North Indian Towns

There were carriages drawn by animals such as horses or bullocks. There were those pulled by men. There were palanquins to carry the ladies – some partially and some totally closed. There was the North India’s quintessential Cycle Rickshaw.

A carriage from Kerala

There are cradles to carry children and there are temples that must be carried in string shoulders. 

A Palanquin for the Kids

To take the Temple Gods for a Ride

To Carry the Women - This ones from South India

Palki from North India - Look at the exquisite Carvings on the Wood

This from Romantic Goa to carry the couple while they faced each other

An Ice Gola Push Cart, designed to display bottles enticingly

The Victoria from the British Era

Outside the hall a Victoria stood with grace and pride and then as if giving way to the mechanical era stood old Volkswagen – somewhere from the era between the carriages in the hall and the cars standing in the parking lot.

Volkswagen leading the way to automated travel

To my limited knowledge this is unique tribute to the Wheel, an invention that brought the world closer my making distant traveling possible.