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Monday, May 30, 2011

Check these out - interesting



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_India#Jesus_in_India

http://mukti4u2.dk/Srinagar_Shankaracharya_Temple.htm

I forgot to write about the Shankaracharya Temple in Srinagar which just the three of us Myself, Rao and Nirmala visited (I mean the rest of the group did not join us). It was 400 plus steps, but I slowly managed to climb and it was worth the strain. The Temple is charged with divine energy. Now that I found these links, we can see all the details.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

This was added to my Vaishnodevi adventure post


I almost forgot that I did not complete posting the rest of the saga. Today is May 17th, 2011 and one of my readers (a new addition as a reader) who is like my own daughter asked me "how did you unite with the others afterwards?" 
Now I will write whatever I can recall.
We woke up in the morning, had a bath in the attached tiny bathroom. The hotel waiter brought us a bucket of hot water. W came back and sat in the front room of the booking office. All the autowalas started coming one by one. They were all looking at us. Each and everyone was whole heartedly sorry for us. Around 8 a.m., an auto arrived. We saw my husband Rao, our (useless) guide Anbu and another friend from the group Shankara Narayana (who adopted me as his sister). I ran and hugged Rao. Shankara Narayana and Rao hugged both of us. We never hugged anyone like that. I started sobbing. Anbu looked very compassionate at that time. He was equally worried for the two of us. He immediately went into my good books. They told us how they spent a sleepless night worrying about us and so on. Rao also had a small adventure. He trekked down all by himself without shoes. Someone stole his brand new walking shoes. When he came down, he also forgot the name of our hotel. By 10 p.m. he somehow located it with a land mark. 
All the autorickshaw drivers were watching us like they did a happy ending of a movie.
Suddenly I remembered the driver who drove us around the previous night. He was parked at a distane and when I asked them, they unanimously declared that he was the one. I walked over, gave him 500 rupees (that I took from the 'brother') and thanked him. We reached the hotel.

Yatra 2011

I can't believe that I decided to this one more time. This time I hope to blog better. My children Gopal and Gayatri have been providing me with the tools and examples from other bloggers. But, I haven't paid much attention to their advice. Now, Gayatri gifted me with a book. 'Globejotting" by Dave Fox. Gopal in the past provided me with links on how to let the world know about my travel journals. I wish to use both of these this time. I would like to receive comments and advices from my readers. Any comment is accepted - no hard feelings. Our next yatra is in very initial stages of planning. We should finalize this week and the whole world will know. Two more people are asking to join us if we went to Amarnath. And we are focusing on that only, anyway.

About the actual yatra, in my next post.