We're in Orissa now, by the sea. The weather is warmer, which is nice (it's been snowing in Darjeeling), but internet access is even slower, which is not. They're blaming a broken cable in the Mediterranean for some reason. Nonetheless we're doing some serious temple viewing - Orissan temples are a style unto themselves, and include the Sri Jagannath temple here in Puri (after which the Juggernaut was named). In fact, Jagannath doesn't look all that frightening, more like a South Park cartoon, with big eyes and a sketchy face. All due to a silly chap who peeped prematurely at the deity so was punished by it remaining unfinished, as they all now are.
It's wedding season here and the streets are full of carts and processions gaily decorated but playing amazingly loud music and holding up all the traffic. Appropriately, perhaps, we went to an "adult" temple today with carvings of all the positions from the Kama Sutra which children aren't supposed to look at - includes girl on girl but not boy on boy action as far as we could see.
No pix still I'm afraid because of the broken cable problem. We're off on a 20 hour train journey to chennai on sunday, for some really warm weather.
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