India 2007, part 16 (Puducherry, Gingee Fort)
Pondicherry officially changed its name into Puducherry in September 2006, which means only a little more than a year before my friend Sneža and I came »
India 2007, part 15 (Thanjavur, Puducherry)
The coach from Madurai to Thanjavur was in its own way hilarious, while the drive was fierce – it dashed all 60 km/h, which in itself »
India 2007, part 14 (Kanniyakumari, Madurai)
The next morning my friend Sneža and I went to the railway station in Varkala and caught a train to Kanniyakumari there. The main reason why »
India 2007, part 10 (Pattadakal, Aihole)
So, the first temple we came across within the temple complex in Pattadakal was the smallish Kadasiddeshvara Temple built around the middle of the 7th century »
India 2007, part 9 (Badami, Pattadakal)
Before getting to Badami, we made a stop by a large temple tank called Haridra Teertha. Such tanks, more like pools, are called pushkarini in Sanskrit, »