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		<title>Elephanta Island, the Place of Caves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, India, By Irene Butler, Published in Senior Living Magazine/ Check out Our India Photo Gallery/ Two colossal elephants once stood regally at the entrance of the island’s temple caves, hence the name coined by the Portuguese when they landed on its shores in the 1500s. In 1864, however, British attempts to take these elephants to England ended in disaster. While being hoisted onto a ship, the crane broke shattering them. One was eventually salvaged and stands reassembled outside the Bhau Daji Lad (formerly Victoria and Albert Museum) in Mumbai. An archaeologist friend says the cave sculptures on Elephanta Island are some of the most impressive in all of India. Boarding a ferry leaving from Mumbai’s Gateway of India dock, an hour skimming the blue waters of the Arabian Sea brings my husband Rick and I to the shores of Gharapuri, the island’s local name meaning “place of caves.” A miniature train transports us to a lively area filled with handicraft shops and restaurants around the foot of the hill that leads up to the temple caves. Mouth-watering scents waft our way. Succumbing to temptation, we are soon sitting in an open-air restaurant lapping up yummy *masala dosa*: crispy rice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversity adds Allure to Chennai and Area</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in Travellady.com E-Zine - by Irene Butler - Check out our India Photo Gallery/ - A beach is a beach is a beach…or so I thought. Something strikes me as peculiar about the13km of exceptionally wide Marina Beach in Chennai. No bikinis, or horizontal bodies slathered in tanning lotion, or swimmers in the Bay of Bengal. The thousand or so locals out for the evening breezes are fully clothed, and 90% are upright, either walking about or standing and chatting, with the remainder sitting for a picnic supper. As my husband Rick and I plod through the soft sand, Coney Island comes to mind. Smiling tots bob up and down on carousels and youths shriek from wildly-whirling contraptions, horses gallop by with riders, and kites fill the sky. Most amazing are the girls aged between six and ten performing daring feats on tightropes affixed to crossed bamboo poles lodged in the sand. Snack food is sold out of tents and stalls, some with gaudy plastic stools out front for customers. We agree this is our most exhilarating beach walk to date. Our days in Chennai (formerly Madras) are spent scouring the sites. Fort St. George, built by the British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord Shiva&#8217;s Domain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Irene Butler Published in BC travel Writers Varanasi. The holiest place on earth in the Hindu religion through recorded time. Shiva, the destroyer god, reigns. He resides in every inch of the city. Over 2000 temples are dedicated to him. Every Hindu tries to come at least once during their lifetime to bathe in his sacred River Ganges that flows alongside the city. The exuberance of life bursts forth, as the two million people who call Varanasi their home, are continually bombarded with tens of thousands of pilgrims and visitors. Cremations are auspicious here. The dead are transported to the city in droves. The funeral pyres burn day and night. We have never been as close to such an abundance of life and death simultaneously as in Varanasi. Click here for more of this adventure: bctravelwriters.com/]]></description>
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		<title>All Aboard The Indian Express</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Irene Butler Published in BC Travel Writers &#8220;Will you take a look at this?&#8221; asked my partner, Rick. &#8220;Wonder if they know the train schedules?&#8221; I shaded my eyes to have a look. &#8220;They don&#8217;t need a schedule. They have the right of way,&#8221; Rick added. &#8220;Well, I&#8217;ll be. You&#8217;re right.&#8221; The shrill whistle of an incoming train at the Gorakhpur station hardly budged the holy cows that wandered down the middle of an adjacent track. The scrawny bovines eventually veered off at a leisurely pace and allowed the locomotive to pass. Read the rest of this adventure: bctravelwriters.com/]]></description>
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