Junagadh, India

Maha Shivaratri, the Grand Night of Shiva, the night after Shiva created the world, marking his dance, his marriage with Parvati, brings devotees from the countryside to major pilgrimage sites. One of those major sites is Girnar, a holy mountain holding ...

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Amitabh and I rolled into Junagadh in the afternoon, just in time to have a quick lunch and see a bit of the amazing 'Indo-Islamic' architecture of the region in the gorgeous light of the setting sun. The most striking was the Mahabat Maqbara mausoleum ...

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... box, no legroom and no storage for our bags, which we had to lay across our legs for the entire journey.  Junagadh has no tourists, just us, which I find strange because its quite a nice little city, with some worthy attractions.  As per ...

... attacking me are Holy men but very stoned ones. It was a festival that I only just heard about whilst riding through Junagadh on my way north. I had arrived in Junagadh earlier on in the day and with the festival and reported 800,000 people visiting ...