Palitana, India

Travel Blogs from Palitana (13)

Shatrunjaya, Palitana, India travel blog
Shatrunjaya
Jan 29, 2004

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by philthy
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Gujarat, the ultimate travel challenge, Palitana, India travel blog
Gujarat, the ultimate travel challenge
Jan 30, 2004

... 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 boarded ...

A travel blog entry by sarah
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Shatrunjaya Hill: Sacred Place of Adinath, Palitana, Gujarat, India travel blog
Shatrunjaya Hill: Sacred Place of Adinath
Feb 14, 2007

"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, ...

A travel blog entry by lraleigh
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Shatrunjaya, Palitana, India travel blog
Shatrunjaya
Nov 10, 2005

3500 steps up and back and some 900 Jain Temples and the most amazing carving and stone work ever.

A travel blog entry by apeshape

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