Haridwar Temples

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Monika and I went with a few of the older ashram girls to see some of the temples around Haridwar.

Two were reached by cable care but they call rope way. I thought we were going to be pulling ourselves up by a rope! The girls walked up but Monika and I were very grateful for the cable cars.

The temples were packed. I was quite disappointed and found them very unspiritual.

We all queued up, when it was our turn it was, donation here, dot on the forehead, cotton tied around the wrist, a wack on the back while a few words were chanted then “next”!

It was really noisy, some of the priests were on their mobiles the whole time, hawkers were selling tacky souvenirs, everyone was pushing and shoving to get in front and it was really dirty.

Not what I had expected.

The girls loved it though so we pretended to also.

Strange experience for such a holy city.

Aarti by the Ganga in the evening however has a wonderful spiritual feeling, I prefer that.

p.s. More photos to come as Monika took some of us as a group.

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Comments

[neha]

nice pictures
good pictures