Yellamma pilgrims

Pilgrims wear yellow tikka powder on their forheads as a symbol of their devotion to the goddess Yellamma and wear leaves around their waists. In earlier years, they had done this in the nude, but that has since been outlawed.

Full Moon Festival of Yellammadevi

February 1st 2007
Feb 1 - 3 Jen had met this French guy Marc in Goa who was heading to a full moon festival in northern Karnataka, so we decided to join him. This was a great opportunity to see a side of the culture here that most tourists don't get to see. This wasn't a full moon party like the trance thing you find in Goa, but rather a religious gathering of about 500,000 local people to celebrate and worship ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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