måndag 27 januari 2014

Shiva Temple Tour in Tamil Nadu

Buying flowers for the temple

Inside the Chidambaram Temple

Breakfast Dosa, served on banana leaf

Gangakondacholapuram Temple



School excursion to the temple

A play before the lunch brake, interrupted when seeing a woman from Europe - very interesting!

Loading suger cane on the road

Everybody very excited, when a tourist stops to take photos. "Taste. Very sweet"

Elephant evening bath

Durban Hall, Royal Palace, Thanjavur

Brihadishwara Temple tower (gopuram)

"Can we have a photo with you?" We hear that 10 times per day, and mostly we say yes with a smile ;-)


söndag 26 januari 2014

Republic Day

             Villa Shanti. One of our best meals in India, ever ;-)

                  In the City Park - everyone is there today!




"Everyone" is on the beach promenade, too! How many                  "everyone" are there?!?




National Day celebration at Indira Gandhi Sports Complex.                                                    Impressing!



onsdag 22 januari 2014

5 Rathas - 5 Carriages and a Shore Temple



Here you see the middle Bhima Ratha

and the most perfectly sculptured elephant in India :-)

here is the first Draupati Ratha

Modern version of Ganesh and other gods in stone

... hot walk back at 10 AM!!!

street view from café


...well earned cake and juice

Shore temple at sunset...