Sunday, March 22, 2009

Ramjhi Kullu Trip - Part 3


This is the Gurudvara at Manikaran a two hour drive from Kullu through the Parvathi Valley. The river Parvathi is an absolute beauty. This Gurudvara - a Sikh Temple has a Siva Lingam from which flows the hottest natural Sulphur Spring. They have made two pools one for men and the other for women to have bath.



This is the Manikaran Gurudwara - discovered by a Sikh saint several centuries ago. They built the Gurudwara around the Hot Spring. The water is so hot that you cannot take a dip - only pour Mug fulls on yourself. The outside temprature is about 7 degrees and the water is piping hot. The Pujari takes a Cloth bag full of Raw Rice tells a Slokam and dips it into the boiling water. When the prayer is complete he takes out the bag and the rice is cooked. This is distributed as Prasadam.





This is the Angora Rabbit Farm








The scenic Parvathi Valley















The Angora Rabbit. Its fur is combed-out and made into Shawls.












We had Dharshan in many temples. This is the Vaishno Devi Temple about four storeys high and the Devi is inside a Cave. You can only crawl through inside & crawl back. The other temples we visited in Kullu are The Raghunathji Temple & Bekley Madha Temple.



End of Kullu Trip. We shall move on to Manali in the next part.

3 comments:

Narayanan said...

Hi uncle saw all the photos...... very happy to see all these....... Im very eager to see all these places...... thnks for ur photos........

GOD_IS_SACH.Period said...

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Harish Kumar said...

Awesome pics!!