For Hindu's, the coastal town of Puri is one of the holiest pilgrimage places in India. For everyone else the beach is the main attraction. Puri took off in the 1970's as it was on the hippie trail due to the legalisation on bhang. Today however it is more about relaxing on the beach and eating the local food.
Puri
Our 20 hour train ride from Varanasi to Puri (east coast, heading south) allowed us to shake off the aggression of the north. We watched the landscape open up into lush green fields dotted with small thatched ...
Posted in India by Alzashelza
Puri 2
A sunrise shoot of fishermen and boats at Puri beach sounds quite romantic doesn't it? Yesterday a young fisherman offered to walk us through his village. 25,000 people crammed into a narrow strip of land between the beach and main road. Just behind, casting it's unfinished shadow, a drab concrete ...
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Mask Making Puri Lukisan Museum
We went to the Puri Lukisan Museum on the high street and found out that they did some craft classes so we looked at the choice and the kids were keen to do masks so we booked and came back the next day to do them. The artist was a local artist and we paid 300000 each mask… I was a little worried ...
Posted in MAGIC MOMENTS by ealonso