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Mamallapuram’s Ancient Carvings
Our first excursion on our spiritual and culinary adventure was to explore some of Mamallapuram’s ancient rock carvings in particular Arjuna’s Penance. It was built by the Pallava kings in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Auto Rickshaw ride in Chennai
A short video showing part of my Rickshaw ride through the city of Chennai in South India. This Rickshaw driver had outfitted his ride with an awesome stereo system.
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Welcome dinner and cooking class
Our South Indian Spiritual and Culinary Adventure officially started today with an inspiring visit to the rock cut temples of Mahabalipuram and a cooking class taught by Chef Nagarajan and his colleagues. We learned three classic South Indian preparations and then sat beneath the stars and devour...
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Our spiritual adventure begins!
Our spiritual and culinary adventure has begun. Our orientation gathering just took place under some shady trees by the beach. Now we are off to our first excursion.
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Java’s Buddhist Sanctuaries
More photos from our morning of visiting Borobudur. Since we were staying Yogyakarta we had to be up at 3:30am to drive away at 4am to get to Borobudur. An early start indeeed but oh so worth it to watch the sun rise over this magnificent edifice. Truly memorable and a must for those that…
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Magical Borobudur – a temple of beauty
The alarm went off about 3:30am and shortly after we made our way down to the lobby from our room where our driver was waiting to take us to Borobudur. The streets were empty naturally at that time of the morning and our almost hour long drive finally brought us to the entrance to Borobudur.…
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Indonesian Herbal Tonic
So we started our morning by consuming various Indonesian herbal tonics called Jamu. We were told by the herbal tonic specialist that they have various healing qualities. She showed us all the bottles that she had prepared containing various tonics and explained what they did. So I picked three a...
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