The Pousada Tauma, is a small luxury boutique hotel, that is dramatically enhanced by a tropical garden. Moving through it, one experiences a sense of discovery, as buildings and open spaces slowly unfold as one goes along, where the lush planting of cool colours are offset by the brilliant warm, articulated laterite walls.

The swimming pool, is free-form, and possibly one of the best in Goa, with features like a bar, broad entrance steps off a pavilion, a wading area, a grotto with a waterfall and a pebbled beach with a little side stream. The pool deck is paved with Dholpur stones which feel cool when moistened and are non-slip.

Around the perimiter is a plethora of hand-crafted wooden-deck beds to relax, sun-bathe, soothed by the theraupetic sound of flowing water. The bottom and sides of the pool are finished in a striking artisticmosaic of "re-cycled broken tiles". The pool complex includes a pool-bar, pool-side pavilion and a water-cascade.