Dr. Ann & Dr. Betsy say good-bye to our tour and take off on our own... After ten incredible days of visiting temples, markets, and more temples, each more spectacular than the next, we are now bidding farewell to our tour group and planning our trip into the wildlife sanctuaries and parks of southern India. Our last day with the group, we attended a holiday party with a family in the city of Madurai, where the annual Pongal festival is ongoing. This harvest festival is a big deal, with pilgrims coming in from all over the state to worship at the HIndu temple in Madurai, which is thousands of years old, carved entirely of granite, into the most intricate assortment of gods and goddesses, animals. Everyone has their houses decorated with sugarcane, and there is
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