As we approached Tirvannamalai.... Arunchala gazed at me with her stony arrogance...
It had been a while since I´d seen a Volcano (Nicaragua maybe) but I have a sort of "ponchant" for them...
(I love a good Volcano me).
Mount Arunchala (800m) could be scaled and cycled round in a couple of hours - I decided to do both (so as to see her from all angles).
At her base was the impressive (and large) Arunchaleswar Temple and a couple of kilometers from here was the Sri Ramana Ashram (which was dedicated to this dude Ramana who lived and meditated in the caves of Aranchala and whom died in the 1950s after 50 years of contemplation).
Ramana was a pretty popular chap and his photos are everywhere. (His ashram attracts untold new age hippies and even the local mineral water is named after him).
Apart from that Tirvannamalai is one of the 5 elemental cities of Shiva which at each full moon attracts thousands of pilgrims who circumnavigate her base (14K).
Lets get spiritual.
It had been a while since I´d seen a Volcano (Nicaragua maybe) but I have a sort of "ponchant" for them...
(I love a good Volcano me).
Mount Arunchala (800m) could be scaled and cycled round in a couple of hours - I decided to do both (so as to see her from all angles).
At her base was the impressive (and large) Arunchaleswar Temple and a couple of kilometers from here was the Sri Ramana Ashram (which was dedicated to this dude Ramana who lived and meditated in the caves of Aranchala and whom died in the 1950s after 50 years of contemplation).
Ramana was a pretty popular chap and his photos are everywhere. (His ashram attracts untold new age hippies and even the local mineral water is named after him).
Apart from that Tirvannamalai is one of the 5 elemental cities of Shiva which at each full moon attracts thousands of pilgrims who circumnavigate her base (14K).
Lets get spiritual.
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