Am I tired or am I tired. After writing the entry yesterday we went to a restaurant for a local dish that basicly consisted of carbs, grease and yet more grease - eew. One of the guys thought he'd be daring and order a veg biriani - biig mistake... after the first mouthful he was crying, sweating, and running to the hand-washing sink to gangle the water - v. funny.
Then we went to a huuuge hindu temple. Tamil Nadu, the area next to Kerala that we had our daytrip, is famous for its hindu temples. This particular one was amazing - 5 acres of labaryntine pages surrounded with stone carvings. Something like 50 little temples, thousands of pillers, millions of oil lamps. Tourists and travellers are not allowed to enter the temple, but because we were with the ashram we had special permission. The temple was built a thousand or so years ago - and took 600 years to build- over 30 times the time it took to build the Taj Mahal (so you can imagine how amazing it is inside). Highlights included: the solid granite music pillars that you thumped to play music, a huge cow statue that looked like it had been stolen from eurodisney, an even bigger hanuman statue that we put a garland round - then had water thrown on us, red stuff smeared on aall over foreheads, then had to walk round this statue a few times (must.. keep...straight.... face).
Got back in at 12.30, lay down, and what felt like a second later the morning bell rang - nooooooooooo! Suffice it to say that I now look like the walking dead, and actually managed to fall asleep sitting up in meditation this morning - I have been told that I snored a bit - whooops!
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