Ganges Rivera Haridwar
Bypass road Haridwar, Uttarakhand, 240941, India
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The Great Heffalump Hunt
... some undergrowth to look
for animals. Veru showed Maya the ‘bubble tree’ – you break the stem carefully
and blow bubbles with the sap. He showed her how to walk quietly and stop and
listen and look around her. We saw some spotted deer called chittal ( like
bambi ) ,two types of monkey, a wild chicken and a scratched area on a tree trunk where the
deer scratch their antlers. We were not able to find any wild elephant but saw
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Sick and tired in Rishikesh
... down there we went as well to dip our feet in the river. The water was cold and I was lucky to escape with my flip-flops as my feet got stuck in the mucky river floor. I must have worried a police officer with my efforts to extract myself, because he began yelling at all of us to get away from the river and back up to the path - even an old Indian sadhu. It made sense - the river was moving very fast away from shore, and if anything had happened we would have ...
Unimpressed with the pilgrimage town of Haridwar
... of Indian guys standing around on the platform what was going on and apparently Mr Tubby wanted to make a formal complaint about the a/c having broken down in our carriage (I did think that it had got warmer) and the railway officials had some issue with this. This then delayed the train's departure from the station which may explain why other people got irate as well. But talk about making a mountain out of a molehill! In any case, we were re-assigned seats in ...
Parmath Niketan Ashram
... chants. Instead of pretty German girls sitting on benches there are scarily thin sadhus, wrapped in orange with long dreadlocks, paint on their faces and fire in their eyes. Instead of Shanti the ashram dog, there are battalions of monkeys that swing fantastically in the air in high arches and drop right in front of your feet. They appear out of nowhere sometimes five or six at a time when you are trying to meditate in the garden. They walk right into ...
Money-theism or the worship of wealth
... turned into a new kind of business!
All those pilgrims come as fervent worshipers, believing in their prayers and donations ... If their faith is not tainted, the whole process happening out there is just appalling. At the Ghat or in those temples!
The thing I really want to point out is that the "official" priests (let's say they are genuine ones instead!) who will approach you to get ...



