Category: Spiritual Adventures
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Our spiritual adventure begins!
It’s day 1 of our spiritual and photographic adventure that will take us to the Kumbh Mela festival and north India. Our journey begins here in Kolkata. Our travelers have come from Australia, France, the Caribbean, Hawaii, mainland USA and Argentina. Quite a diverse group but with a common...
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Our next Spiritual Adventure explores Rajasthan
It’s a little over a month before our next spiritual adventure begins. We’ll be heading to North India this time and attending the Kumbha Mela festival as part of it. It will be quite the trip considering that we’ll be journeying across North India from Kolkata in the east all t...
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Parade of sadhus at the Kumbh Mela Festival
One of the most amazing things to witness at the Kumbh Mela festival is the parade of sadhus (monks). The parade takes place on the main bathing just before the auspicious time for the dip in the holy Ganges river. Monks parade from their tented areas in thousands to the river. Here are a collect...
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Ganga Aarti at the Kumbh Mela Festival (Part 2)
We continue with our series of photographs highlighting the Ganga Aarti ceremony that takes place at the Kumbha Mela festival in India. We’ve themed our tour to the Kumbha Mela festival as a spiritual and photography adventure as there’s be countless opportunities for photography duri...
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Ganga Aarti at the Kumbh Mela Festival (Part 1)
Part of the Kumbha Mela festival is the evening Ganga Aarti celebration down by the banks of the holy Ganges river. Aarti is a Hindu ritual wear an oil lamp or lamps are lit and then waved ceremoniously at a deity. In this case the the holy river is looked open as the deity and…
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Collection of Kumbha Mela Photos by Anna Kastner
The grand 2013 Kumbha Mela festival is only a little over 7 months away. Quite a few people have signed up for our spiritual adventure to this festival and across north India and we hope you will too. Today, I’d like to share some photos taken by a dear friend of mine, Anna Kastner. SheR...
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Morning at the Madurai Meenakshi Temple (Part 1)
I always feel blessed when I have the opportunity to visit the Meenakshi temple in Madurai. The sanctum of the temple is powerful and the experience each time ineffable. I always leave my camera behind when I go to temples and if I do take my camera I hardly ever take any photos. This trip…
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2013 Kumbh Mela and a journey across North India
A 13-day epic journey to the Kumbha Mela and across North India The map above does not shy away in reminding us that our spiritual adventure will take us almost all the way across north India. A massive distance to cover with a great many things to see in between. It also tells us that…
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