Paradise Resort Kumbakonam

... my side and together we completed it. Thanks Joesph! I hope you remember Joseph? He was the short fellow that was responsible for the Industrial HOPE School Centre in Bangalore. I hope we get to see it. Joseph has been helping us out much!<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Serve India 2009 20090612 Day 9 Friday ...

... to learn more about what happened!<br><br><br><br>Serve India 2009 20090610 Day 7 Wednesday<br><br>Today we visited some of the families of the students on Tannery Road. It was amazing to see them and their hearts to welcome us in. Many of the family homes were one or two rooms in size. Everything was in these rooms; beds, chairs, books, TV, stove, etc. Usually when we ...

... what I said to the other kids and vice versa. It was a nice way to spend the afternoon. That night I stumbled upon a little beach side concert. Now I am going to show my ignorance here because I don't know the types of music or the types of dances I saw. I can't look up everything you know!. But it was very entertaining. There were old Indian men singing and playing the Sitar which was ...

We were supposed to go to both Kumbakonam and Chidambaram today, but the other dithered around soo much on the way to the bus station in Pondi that we only had time for Kumbakonam in the end. The temples here are 'erotic' temples, and they make for far more interesting viewing for the casual visitor (not because I'm a pervert or anything!) The detail was far more elaborate and intricate in design, seemingly very well kept ...

... t get too much attention. Walked the fairly wild seafront promenade and will do the French quarter when its cooler. very unique place with the cleanest streets in India (how do they do it?). we had a birthday in our small group today and actually found a birthday cake. For Breakfast we found a French bakery and pigged out on croissants, pain au chocolate ...

... all Indians, we only saw internationales flying around on their motorbikes. But it has an intertesing philosophy with no materialism and eastern spirituality and you can leave all religion at the door, it has the coolest golden space ship looking meditation hall (the soul of Auroville) called Matrimandir that radiates light in through a crystal dome with thousands of tiny mirrors but it kinda seems very "Take me to your leader" in a 1960's B movie way, however I know ...

... is a bit rubbish but i have aranged a tour for tomorrow - yep thats right - im going on a tour!!!! It takes me around Pondy and Auroville (next town with 70% of them foreigners, it is a completly self sufficient town). AND i think it is free! It would usually cost 110Rs but the guy says it is tourism day (or something like that) and it is free - i am joining 1 Englishman and 2 French people. Im a bit dubious about the ...

... interesting features were the colourful gopurans (entry gates) and a lingam made by Shiva himself when he mixed the nectar of immortality with sand. For those who want to know what a lingam is : it's a hindu phallus symbol. And they have a lot of them :) Hotel Raja was an excellent choice (we found it in the Lonely Planet guide) and we did some TV ...

... of coffee. Ben gets chatting to the owner who studied at Leeds University in 1978 and has been to our home town Huddersfield many times, most of which were spent in a drunken state. He tells us about his elaborate plans to open a hotel here in August of this year so if you come here and can afford a bit of luxury book it, it sound amazing. The coffee shop has wireless internet so I can bring my laptop ...

... vazne divny...:]]] Jinak jsme ale meli bezva time a take jsme mohli navstivit mestecko Arovill ktere bylo vytvorene specialne pro komunitu lidi ,kteri maji sva vlastni urcita pravidla a byla vytvorena Asramem, takze vybudovali obrovskou kouli ve ktere delaji meditace. Sice jsem dva dny zdtravila v posteli, jelikoz jsem mela mistni ananasovi drink namychany s vodou z kohoutku takze jsem na tom nebyla moc dobre, ale zlovek ziskava zkusenosti a uz jsem zase o.k.