Children at the Yellamma temple

Full Moon Festival of Yellammadevi

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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