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A spiritual adventure of festivals and ancient temples.

Join our next exciting spiritual adventure to South India and Malaysia in Jan/Feb 2012.

The journey is very much focused on visiting temples, exploring deeply the mysticism of Hinduism, meeting the priests and monks, participating in mystical ceremonies in the sanctums of 1000 year old temples and more. I'll conduct classes along the way sharing with you about Hinduism, its culture and traditions, and the simple practical tools that it shares to help us in our daily lives.

Join this life changing spiritual adventure as we journey to some of the most sacred locations in southern India, long the catalyst of many profound and ineffable inner experiences for countless spiritual seekers.

Embark on the pre-dawn 10 mile walk around the sacred Arunachala hill in Tiruvannamalai

Meditate at Virupaksha cave and sit in silence at Ramana Ashram

Worship at Chidambaram's famed Siva temple and be awed at this magnificent edifice that is thousands of years old

Enrich your life with classes on Hindu metaphysics, meditation and culture

Journey overnight on an Indian train to the island of Rameswaram, just miles from Sri Lanka

Bathe in the waters of the 22 sacred wells that are believed to have mystical powers at the island's magnificent temple.

Explore the ancient cultural capital of the south, Madurai, with is spectacular and powerful temple to the Goddess Meenakshi

Journey to Malaysia and end our adventure celebrating the powerful Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves amidst a million other spiritual seekers.

Read more about our spiritual journey to South India and Malaysia here.

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Nov 11, 2011

Evening Scene at the Pushkar Camel Fair

Though it is hot during the day most Rajasthani men and women seem unaffected by the heat. As the sun makes its way towards the horizon the lighting gets perfect for photography and photographers gather in large numbers. Here's a collection of photos from later in the day, when t
Nov 10, 2011
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Morning Scene at the Pushkar Camel Fair

So I decided to wake up early (4:45am) on our first day at the Pushkar Camel Fair and head in to see what life was like pre-dawn. I headed out with my camera on a camel cart and arrived at the fair about 25 minutes later. Traders were slowly waking up. Small fires can be seen her
Nov 9, 2011
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We arrive in Pushkar!

From Khejarla we headed further east to the holy town of Pushkar. Normally quiet and serene, it is now bustling with thousands of pilgrims, traders and livestock for the annual Pushkar Camel Fair. We stayed at some tents about 2 kms away from the main fair grounds and traveled ba
Nov 9, 2011
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Rajasthan Street Food

Here are a couple of videos on Indian Street Food cooking taken during our time at the Pushkar Camel Fair in Rajasthan. Yummy! This man has been cooking up amazing dishes all night at the Pushkar Camel Fair in Rajasthan. Vijay Kumar, originally from Guwahati in the state of
Nov 8, 2011

Sadhus at the Pushkar Fair parade
Nov 8, 2011
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A night in charming Khejarla

We are a few days behind with our blogging about our spiritual adventure due to the non existing internet connection where we've been so we are playing catch up here. Khejarla is a charming little village about 90mins east of Jodhpur. We stopped here for a night after leaving Jai