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Palitana Slideshow
Palitana
Travel Blogs from Palitana, India
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Shatrunjaya
This is a top pick! ... we had seen our fill of Shatrunjaya (and not eager to climb and decend those steps again) we set off for Jaisalmer. Since Palitana is off the railway grid that meant sharing a bus full of Jain pilgrims to Ahmedabad. As it turns out, the people sitting ...
Gujarat, the ultimate travel challenge
This is a top pick! ... of honor; it was quite "rustic". When we disembarked in Talaja, it was about 5, and we were first told that the bus to Palitana didn't exist (language misunderstanding) and then, that it was "a little" late. At 6:30, just as it was getting dark, we ...
Shatrunjaya Hill: Sacred Place of Adinath
This is a top pick! "Adinath. Adinath," the white-clad monks and laypeople chanted as they clapped inside the marble inner sanctum of the holiest Jain temple. This was Adishwar, the main temple on Shatrunjaya Hill, the place where Adinath, the first tirthankara, or lord, ...
Gir Tiger! (well, lion actually)
This is a top pick! ... Sasan is the last remaining refuge of the Asiatic Lion (and you thought its was just tigers) previously found across the breadth of northern India and as far west as Iraq. The land has been given over to the lions, a tribe that lived there previously has ...
Shatrunjaya
3500 steps up and back and some 900 Jain Temples and the most amazing carving and stone work ...
Palitana: Ein Berg und eine beschwerrliche Reise
19.02 – 20.02 Palitana, Gujarat, Indien Nach Diu ging es dann Richtung Palitana. Ein kleines Doerfchen was fuer einen beeindruckenden Tempelkomplex auf einem Bergruecken ...
Microscopic Souls, Pilgrimaging & Living the dream
... dull, as it doesn't give the vibrancy the temple deserve. I wander around the temple for a couple of hours then make my descent. I leave Palitana with a further understanding to the Jain religion and to the followers that can only be seen in a great ...
Digging Deep
... their wives. On the left side of me was the reception. I then learnt that due to the financial constraints post-colonial India placed on the late monarchy, many Maharajas had sold or turned their estates into hotels and sought refuge in the less regal ...
Jain Temples
Palitana is a site of pilgrimage for Jains; the temple complexes on top of the hill (only 3400 steps!) were the most peaceful place in ...
HILLTOP SEA OF TEMPLES ...
This our second Pligramage in 3 days we scalled 2500 steps to a hilltop riddled with temples, 920.c in all. We have another Hilltop to scale later in the week, 10,000 steps, Endaz not so keen, neither are my ...
So close!
So I waited and waited at the bus station for the bus to Alang. The entire crowd knew where i was headed and it took 1.5 hours for them to tell me that the bus wasn't due until 2pm! Three hours away.... So I had a chai and went for ...
863 chramu
presne tak 863chramu na dvou kopcich a k nim vedlo pres 3500 schodu, ktere jsem zmakla za neco malo pres hodku. Za nami neustale chodili nosici a cekali az zkolabujeme. Pravda, sla jsem v poledne, ale vedra uz nejsou to co byvala najihu. Hodne lidi, ale ...
Gujarati pilgrimages
... clean, but give a very good idea of how they originally intended to look like. We leave the charming town of Palitana for the busier, noisier Junagadh. Early the following morning, we join hundreds of Hindu and Jain worshippers in our second Gujarati ...
Shatrunjaya
After another 165km ride we arrived in Palitana which is a rather big town at the foot of one of the most important Jainism holy pilgrim sites ........... Shatrunjaya. It is another large hill ( why cant they build these things on flat ground ???) ...
suite pélerinage
Palitana, une ville assez poussiéreuse alors le masque doit faire partie de notre habillement je souffre d allergies en tout cas!!!!je n'ai pas pu monter sans l'aide de porteurs en dholi (plus tard les photos) chaise à porteurs, Tahera elle a fait assez ...
One word will be enough: TREMENDOUS!!!
... , under-developed like shit .... but this kind of city is so true, so authentic, so intense!!! First, the way from Ahmedabad to Palitana: I couldn't find any Government bus (and my dear Lonely Planet was not of any help for this!) so I had to leave from ...
Palitana, festival and temples
I wasn't sure what I would find in Palitana, but I was lucky again and got there in the middle of a festival. There was a 2 day Muslim festival this weekend. I am not sure what the festival is about, but they carry some kind of temples in the ...
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