Country Inn & Suites Haridwar
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Iconic India
... 8217;s walk home with their shopped goods balanced atop their heads. The street-sides are rich with open-wok food stalls displaying sizeable aluminum pots steaming with spicy bean "Dal" that even the best US Indian restaurants can learn from. Stalls selling Marigolds and small brass bowls for religious offering glisten and glow in the sun.
I would like to stay in this lovely city longer but I am committed to extend my retreat by a couple of weeks in ...
The world capital of Yoga
... old Indian student, very mature for his age and very much in love with his Russian girlfriend that he never met!!! He approchead me asking: Maybe you can help me? I said: If I can I would do anything for you! He asked me to arrange a VISA to go to Russia and meet the young girlfriend he is talking at the phone with for already 4 years!!! I said I would have loved to know the details of the story..and that’s how we met and spend the rest couple of ...
Unimpressed with the pilgrimage town of Haridwar
... I went down to the main bridge over the river in order to watch the twice-daily Ganges-worshipping ceremony. This involves the pilgrims lighting torches, carrying them down to the river, then using the torches to light candles placed in tiny 'boats' which are then cast into the waters to float downstream. From an outsider's point of view, it wasn't as compelling a ritual to observe as I was led to believe, but to be fair I was some distance away from the main action.
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Meeting the Maharishi
... people want to do then no problem, but I just didn't find the place that peaceful or indeed that beautiful and could think of much more beautiful places to 'find yourself'.
Our last day in Rishikesh however made the trip worthwhile, we headed out for a walk and found (eventually, “with a little help from my friends”) the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ashram, the place made famous by ...