After enjoying our first Hindu wedding in Chennai, India, we flew to Sri Lanka for 10 days to explore the ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’. It was just a short hour and half flight across the Indian Ocean. Very excited to be at Sigiriya We spent our first four nights in the country in Habarana – a town in an area of Sri Lanka known as the ‘Cultural Triangle’. There’s not much to see in Habarana itself, although I did…
Arjuna’s Penance relief From Pondicherry, we caught a local bus 2 hours north to Mamallapuram. Buses leave really regularly from the bus station in Pondi. Practically as soon as we got to the bus station, we were pointed to a Mamallapuram bus that was just pulling away. Running towards it, I double checked with someone who looked official that it was the right one and received a classic Indian head wobble in reply. Only having been in the country a…
Shiva statute at the temple I might become a Hindu! I am not a religious person, but our visit to the Shiva temple on Old Airport Road, Bangalore was quite the experience. And I had a lot of fun! Taking part in a spiritual activity You enter into the temple by walking through a grotto-like tunnel, with encouraging statements on the wall, telling you to have hope and to believe! Chants of Om Namah Shivaya are played out through the speakers. …
Bangalore is not a city filled with must-see tourist sites. Instead, it is a vibrant, lively and fairly modern place where people live and work, rather than visit and sightsee. And this was why we were here. Not to live and work ourselves, but to visit some friends, Sara and Mike, who are working out here and to see a snapshot of their new lives, living in India. Eating out! They looked after us very well, taking us to some…