Tag Archive for: Religion

Site-Seeing in New Delhi

Yesterday was our first full day in Delhi and to kick off the last leg of the trip, we visited two significant locations: Lotus Temple and the India Gate. The Lotus Temple is a place open to all people regardless of faith, nationality, or any other characteristic. However, it is a temple for the Baha’i […]

Exploring Delhi

Yesterday morning the lizard’s of Delhi welcomed me. A lazy day in the beginning, went with sessions saying our experience and expectations. Though a lazy day when we were told finish the survey given by Tera, I boosted up my energy. Later we went for lunch in a common place where it was too crowded. […]

Ready to Explore Delhi

My first impression of when I first got to Delhi was that it was very humid but it was no different from what we have already encountered before I’m India. When I woke up, I was welcomed by a curious lizard right outside my door which reminded me of back home where lizards would rest […]

View of Ahmedabad

Today was a brilliant day because we visited so many places like Swami Narayan temple. In my community girls are not allowed to enter but in this Narayan temple in girls are allowed to enter and pray. Next we met the statue of a writer Dalpat Rai. His father was writing books and by watching […]

Tasting the history of Ahmedabad

Went for site seeing today, to be more specific went for a heritage walk today! It was fun today, really enjoyed going to different places and obviously it becomes more fun when a diverse group of people experiences the diversity of a place. The first thing we visited was the Swaminarayan temple. The hand carved […]

History of Ahmedabad

Today was a wonderful day and I learnt lots of things about Ahmedabad. Morning by 8:00am, we started to the step of our heritage walk. I found Ahmedabad basically a historical city with many architectures. We started our walk from a temple and ended up visiting the mosque. It was inspiring to me of the […]

A walk through history

Today was an amazing experience. We started our day of with the heritage walk trough the old city in Ahmedabad. Our first stop was A Hindu temple build in the 1800s. The walls of the building were filled with figures and carvings of people and gods. Being a polytheistic religion there were indeed many gods […]

Heritage of India – Ahmedabad

We get warm and sweet welcome from Sauhard team. They just showed the taste of Ahmedbad’s rich heritage and culture. They explained about Ahmedabad’s rich resources. They explained about Families, Gandhi ashrams, Institutions, Economy, Freedom fighters(Gandhi, Sardar vallabhai Patel,Morarji Ranchhodji Desai.) One thing I get to know by them is Top food restaurants in the […]

Day 3: Akshardham

Day 3 takes us to Akshardham, a Swaminarayan temple in Delhi, India. Swaminarayan’s follow a sect of Swaminarayan Hinduism, a form of Vaishnavism (or Vishnu worship). Akshardham is set on a 100 acre campus and serves as an education center and temple for India’s Vishnu worshippers and other guests. Our visit took place on a […]