Diwali! - Blogabond

The Indian Festival of Lights and New Year! Diwali is a very special day in the Indian Calender and I was about to spend it for the first away from the UK and my family and friends. But a big thank you goes out to my family who sent me a card and made me feel right at home. And also to Nitya and Vidya, our housemates with whom I celebrated Diwali with. Tim and I and the girls went to St Helensburg about 90mins away from Sydney where we visited a South Indian Temple in the mountains. It was so cold in there as it is made entirely of Marble, and is very well ventilated, ie no carpets or windows or doors! But it was absolutely beautiful and that made it worth it. Here we made some offerings and said some prayers and basically had a really fun day out! We even got some Roti and Curry for lunch which Tim especially enjoyed!

Back at home, I had prepared some sweets in the morning and made some vegetable curry for the evening; so we tucked into that after lighting some candles and diya's (little lamps) aorund the house and saying some more prayers. Yummy!

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Priya&Tim on October 27, 2006 from Sydney, Australia

from the travel blog: Cheeky Round The World Trip

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