Festival of Lights - Felicity, Trinidad

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October 31st 2011

Published: November 9th 2011

According to the great Hindu epic ‘Ramayana’, Denali is believed to be the time when Lord Rama defeated and killed the evil King Ravana and after passing a period of fourteen years in exile returned to his capital Ayodhya on a new moon day of the Kartik season with wife Sita and brother Lakshman. This homecoming of Lord Rama is celebrated with lights, fireworks, and merriment. The tradition ... Read Full Entry

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Bob & Janice Waller

s v Tsamaya

Like so many others we love to travel and we love to sail so cruising makes a lot of sense. Janice has retired from Cornell as a business manager and Bob has retired from South Seneca school district as the high school principal. It's time to sell the house, get rid of whatever doesn't fit on our 40 foot Caliber LRC named Tsamaya (this means Travel Well in Setswana) and set off to see the world. Our reasons for publishing this blog is twofold, first to keep in touch with our friends and family and secondly to share our experiences. If you would like to receive notification when we have added ... full info

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Felicity School

The vans that took us to Felicity dropped us at the Felicity Primary school yard.

Happy Divali

Everyone we passed during the evening wished us a “Happy Divali” and we returned the wishes.

Good for everyone

This saying at the elementary school would be a good one for everyone to follow.

Gifts given to us

People throughout the village provided “gifts” to those that passed. They were homemade “sweets” which we enjoyed as well.

Sunrise

The morning of Divali the sun silhouetted the clouds as seen from our anchorage. Looks like rain today.

Sunrise at the anchorage

Another view of the same sunrise.

Our new pillow covers

Any souveniers that we get must be small or immediately useful on the boat. We are very pleased with our pillow covers as a souvenier of Divali.

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