Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Bad news,

Looks like my tablet is now failing to charge.... not sure how I can continue the blog without it...

Monday, February 23, 2015

Day 4 No Religion, Yoga Centre, Beach, Night Right in the car for a few hours

Today, we visited a I'm guessing, some kind of yoga Centre? Sat under a tree for a bit to meditate, then went off to another centre, sorry I don't have the names.... I will probably have to update later.... second centre, was a large complex, pretty well maintained, funded by donations, a lot of $$ has gone into this, they reforested the area (originally desert scrubland)  and created, a giant golden sphere coming out of the ground, with disc's surrounding it... you will have to see the pictures....

After that... we visited the boathouse, beach resort, short boat ride, to a beach, had a bar/snacks etc etc, were not allowed to swim... which was a bit of a bummer... they charged for everything, camera, sitting on the chair... boat ride etc... wasn't much.... but still....

Visited another small temple, well out into the countryside, this was one, where you put statues of yourself, and what you want to be when you grow up... so lots of statues of doctors... etc etc..

After that... we travelled to another city.... I though driving at night was bad... but no.... it can get worse.... imagine, ROAD WORKS! POTHOLES.... the haze of dust.... head lights on full, crazy overtaking!! Endless beeping of the horns!! We got lost a few times!

Anyway.... going to the golden temple today.... will attempt to post these pictures... it takes a lot of time of the tablet... (need to do them one at a time... and it's like 5 clicks per photo! Ugh)

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Day 3 Part 4 or 5 getting Temples out

Ok, I managed to get into a few temples, and take some pictures, these complex's are huge... taking over 1km or so, one of the complex's every 30 years, they bring out of idol, and normally have 10million people,  the carvings, are in granite, and were pretty amazing, the detail was crazy, even down to the level where if you tap it, (I.e. the sword, it would sound like metal, another area, you could tap the stone, to hear gold, silver etc),  the Mango tree complex was really big.. I actually wasn't allowed to get into one part, (it is strange, it seems to be from temple to temple of they will let you in or not...) and there are no European faces here!! One of the temple priest (not sure if that was the correct term), was berry chatty explaining everything about it...and was very informative...

Got to see my first elephants in one of the big temples... (did look a little sad...)