Celebrating Diwali "the Festival of Lights"
This year, on October 23rd, tens of thousands of Sikhs and Hindus will be celebrating one of India's grandest festivals, Diwali - the Festival of Lights. Diwali is an ancient Hindu festival that…
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pilgrimage
Every teaching, story, and reflection filed under pilgrimage.
Thanjavur's great temple
This morning on the way to the heart of the Chetinad region we stopped in Thanjavur to visit the temple built by the great south Indian king Raja Raja Chola. The temple's name is Brihadeeswarar and…
Eating with your hands
Eating with your hand is something that is common in Asia especially in India. The right hand is used and all meals are eaten with it. Today for lunch as part of our culinary journey we visited Sri…
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.
The Great Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India
Here are more photos from our morning in the Great Thar Desert. After witnessing a spectacular sunrise our camel drivers made us some very delicious masala chai. A nice way to wake up in the morning.…
A night in the Great Thar Desert
Definitely one of the highlights of our trip so far has been the night we spent in the Great Thar desert. From Jodhpur we drove 300kms west to Jaisalmer, the last town way out in the Great Thar…
Our next Spiritual Adventure
A spiritual adventure of festivals and ancient temples.
A Kumbha Mela photo from the archives
I was going through some photos from last year's Kumbha Mela festival in Haridwar, North India and came across this image of one of the sadhus and I thought I'd share it with you all.
A Spiritual Adventure in Kerala
We are happy to announce our next spiritual adventure, this time to the beautiful state of Kerala in South India in April/May of 2011. Kerala is a mellow and gentle introduction to India for all…
The Start of a New Journey
We made our way down the mountain, leaving behind our beautiful home of 4-nights in Darjeeling and the town that all of us now love. Over three-hours later we arrived in the little town of Bagdogra…
Classes and Excursions in Darjeeling
We are certainly well settled in Darjeeling now and in the comforts of our beautiful hotel. We are spending more time each day in classes and less in excursions. Our main excursion for today was to…
Fun day of classes on meditation in the Himalayas
It's our last full day in Darjeeling and we spent a few hours of it in classes. Today it was everyone's turn to be a teacher. Each person was given a topic yesterday and it was left to them to teach…
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