Chamundeswari Temple

After riding to the top of Chamundeswari Hill in an 'auto', (an auto-rickshaw, which is half a scooter with a cabin and seats attached), we walked to the temple past stalls selling religious icons, wooly hats(its now winter!), plastic toys, four men sitting around yards apart with scales you could stand on for a small fee, a man selling water in the plastic urns that have replaced the traditional terracotta, and familes and young people wanting to take photos of us!
After leaving our 'chappals' at the shoe stand, we passed the stalls selling flowers and coloured powder for the 'Puja" and joined the queue to enter the temple complex.
The women were beautifully dressed in their saris and many of the men wore traditional lingu as they stopped to worship at the different deities, surrounded by flowers, candles, coconuts and coloured powder.Read more