Blake enjoying the salt air while Arpana was at the conference
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Auroville Beach
About 8 km north of puducherry is the auroville beach. A real fishing community with boats and nets on the beach as well as this locally made beach head made of coconut tree trunks. Also seen below is a sea urchin photographs 2 and 3
The Ganesha Temple and Laxmi the Elephant
In front of this very nice Ganesha temple is Laxmi the elephant. If you give her a coin, she will take it in her trunk and then bless you on top of your head with her trunk. She gives you a bit of a clunk actually.
The French Quarter in Puducherry
Puducherry was a french colony until 1954. Like New Orleans, there is a very distinctive french quarter characterized by some of the architecture you see here. Also within the french quarter is the Aurobindo Ashram (last picture).
Mahabalipurum, on route to Puducherry
November 23, 2009This temple is on the beach, about 60 km from Chennai (Madras). The first picture is called the shore temple as it overlooks the waters of the Bay of Bengal. We were on our way to Puducherry for the Fulbright conference
Makedatu (Goat's Leap) close to Bengaluru
The story goes...that this place is called Goat's Leap because the locals saw a tiger chasing a goat across the rocks. When the goat came to the river's edge, he leaped across and thereby escaped the tiger. Of course, Blake thinks the goat leaped and fell in the water and the tiger thought... I'm not that hungry.
To get there, we had to cross the river in a basket boat -- see photograph with Jaggu (Blake's brother-in-law in red and driver)
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