Category: Spiritual Adventures
264 Posts
Our spiritual adventure begins
Our spiritual adventure began on January 27th but we’ve been without internet for 9 days now so have not been able to blog about the amazing journey we’ve been having. We’ll start to cover it in detail now so you can follow along. Photos in today’s post show us in Chennai,...
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200 Likes and off to India!
Our blog received its 200th “Like”s today as I make my way to India to begin our spiritual adventure this Friday. Thank you everyone for all the Likes. If you haven’t Liked it yet please do so. Participants on the adventure have already begun their journey making their way from ...
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An island’s majestic temple
One evening, on our upcoming Festivals & Temples spiritual adventure to South India and Malaysia, we’ll board an overnight train and make the long journey south east to the coast and cross the Indira Gandhi bridge to the laid back fishing island of Rameswaram. Located only a few miles ...
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A Spiritual Adventure to South India
Our festivals and temples tour of South India and Malaysia begins on Jan 27th and there is still space for those wishing to join the journey. Here’s a video that was put together on a previous trip to South India. It shows us arriving at the Chennai airport then off south to the seaside fis...
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Arunachala – hill of fire
Arunachala hill, in the pilgrimage town of Tiruvannamalai in South India, has long been a sacred place for Saivite Hindus. The 800m tall hill is located about 100 miles away from Tamil Nadu’s bustling capital of Chennai. Each year during the Tamil month of Kartigai (October-November), the f...
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Avial
A classic preparation from Kerala, Avial is a light, easy-to-make dish of vegetables cooked with coconut and yogurt. It goes particularly well with Pallapam. Preparation should take no more than 15 minutes, even faster if you use the microwave. Ingredients 1 1/2 cups chopped vegetables – ca...
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Palappam
South Indian cooks make breads from lots of different ingredients more or less unknown in the west. This unusual and delicious bread from Kerala uses a fermented batter of rice flour and coconut milk. This is called Palappam, although often you just hear it referred to as appam, which simply mean...
Read MoreSpiritual and Culinary Tour of India
Explore the locations we will be visiting on our Spiritual and Culinary Adventure This map takes you through the route of our spiritual and culinary adventure in South India next February 2012. Use Google’s interactive map below to zoom in on towns, explore neighboring villages and the surr...
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