Jo and Sarb's Year Off

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Day 141 (Sat 25 Nov) - Puri

Had brekky and blogged till about 12pm.

Then took a rickshaw to the Jagganath temple passing through the very busy streets of Puri.

The Jagganath temple is surrounded by a wall and only Hindus are allowed into the complex we had to make do with walking round the perimeter. Pretty impressive all the same.

The surrounding buildings are architecturally very impressive, however, all are very desperately in need of maintenance.

Walked onto Marine Drive and the 'locals' beach. A much nicer beach than ours and very busy with Indian holiday makers.

Pottered back to our hotel enjoying the heat of the day. As we passed the Honey Bee restaurant we spotted Neil just finishing his breakfast. He had mentioned that he might pop up for the weekend.

As it was now beer o'clock we had a drink in the Peace restaurant and then headed back to the Z hotel where Neil had also managed to secure lodgings.

Neil and Sarb played a couple of games of chess on the front lawn as the light began to fade. The last game turned into a floodlit one!

We went for dinner at a restaurant that was on the beach front. Lovely food. On the way back from dinner we picked up some booze and even a small bottle of rum.

Neil and Sarb resumed playing chess and having tired of this game decided to play snakes and ladders! We all had a merry time drinking beer, rum and chatting away.

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