Experiences labelled with 'south india'
The Sai Baba Ashram in India is as close to a spiritual Disneyland experience as you can get, minus the guy in the Goofy outfit posing for photos. In fact, the Sai Baba ashram in Puttaparthi defies even Walt Disney’s active imagination with its bright pink, blue, and yellow painted buildings, ice cream stalls and hordes of robed “devotees” from every corner of the globe. It`s like being inside a birthday cake on top of a fully decorated Christmas tree. In terms of ashrams, this one is the world`s gold standard. The town of Puttaparthi, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, is what a university is to a university town. In other words, the town is the ashram. It was once a small, remote ...
There are a number of wildlife destinations, including elephant camps, in the south Indian state of Karnataka. The most popular and unique camp is Dubare Elephant Camp, where you can interact at close quarters with the Asian/Indian elephant. At the Dubare Elephant Camp, visitors can help to bathe and feed the elephants, watch them at a training session, and finally enjoy a short ride on one of these gentle giants. They are all tamed and trained elephants, and are not dangerous. Dubare Elephant Camp is located in the beautiful Coorg district of Karnataka, on the banks of the river Cauvery. Therefore, the last part of the journey is a short ride in a motorboat across the river. Visitors are greeted by unique scenes at the ...
