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Holy Cow! - - (India)
... bus back to the city and wandered all over looking for somewhere to have lunch. After lunch, we got a rickshaw out to Galta, the Monkey Temple. We were quite surprised with that - it was cool looking (and, yes, there were monkeys all over). Back to the ...
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Oldest of Old, Holiest of Holy
... had seen them already so we turned off to check out a few temples in the area. We visited three temples. Durga temple, monkey temple and another whose name escapes me. At one of the temple the guys were eager to bless us with peacock ...
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it isn't easy being sacred
... of wood used in the cremations, we did not actually see any dead bodies - personally i am grateful. we visited the monkey temple, a very good illustration of why one should never feed the animals: because one of the Hindi gods takes ...
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City of God
... monkey temple. I think I saw that in Indiana Jones or something once and it doesn't end well. Dan and I quickly hurried out of the monkey temple after that and b-lined it for our cab to take us the rest of the way to the airport. Once we ...
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Varanassi and the first few days in Kathmandu!
... visited a few of the sights the next day including the Narayanhiti museum (The Kings Palace), Durbar Square and the Swayanbhunath Stupa (the Monkey Temple). Thought the monkey temple was amazing, the scale of the temple was just incredible, with the ...
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Day 33 - 36 : Varanasi and the Ghats
... in his rickshaw. Went to Sarnath first (a popular Buddhist pilgrimage place with ruins/temples), followed by the Durga temple, Monkey temple (it's a shame camera's are not allowed here but just picture hundreds of monkeys in and around the temple which ...
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Vapours in Varanasi....not
... different nations - such as Japan, China, Burma and even the UK. We visited Jain temples (more about them later) and the Monkey Temple (enough said - lots). Back to the hotel for a quick wash and buoyed by our previous successful tout handling we ...
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Varanasi - Rolling down the Ganges
... : - the touts are crazy here - I even had to pour water on one of them to get him to leave us alone - the monkey temple is cool and the monkeys love chapati - though goods are cheap, sending packages back to Canada is definitely not - though yoga ...
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Holy cow! - the sensual experience that is India
... weary selves to the not too spectacular Durga, Tulsi Monas and Monkey temples. It was interesting though to see the bustling Monkey temple's own bakery/confectionary stand which apparently serves up excellent sweets. Everyone takes a box of sweets to the ...
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Varanasi: City of Ghats
... taking a boat on the river, Varanasi seemed to be just a big city. There were some temples that we visited, the monkey temple probably being the most popular and rightfully so, as monkeys pretty much own the place and mix and intermingle with all ...
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