Jujuri – Part 1 (the last Sunday with Nana)

Still on a 2-hour rickshaw ride, now begins the leg of the trip from Saswad to Jujuri. Keep in mind that what goes up, must come down. In other words, this 2-hour rickshaw drive to Jujuri will result in a 2-hour rickshaw drive back to our flat in Pune. This also means that we have to walk up a lot of stairs in Jujuri and then back down again.

The drive was beautiful – a lot of farmland, very few cars and little to no pollution (that we could detect anyways).

Goats
A small temple we passed along the way.

I found another opportunity for Nana to stop on the side of the road to take a video for the kids. All kids young and old, including this kid here. Hey, a pun!

The image above is a video. Click on it.
I love this photo.

Now in Jujuri

The Jujuri Temple is on a small mountain that seems like a very big mountain when walking up all the stairs. But there’s plenty of entertainment along the way to keep one’s mind off the uphill climb.

Me and Jill – in the little village below the temple.
Street food.
The yellow stuff is turmeric. Turmeric doesn’t come out in the laundry. All this stuff is sold to place at the various altars along the way, and the powders are to throw on the deities, and to get all over your body, hair, clothes and anything else carried along.
Stuff to buy.
More offerings for the deities.
Toys and miscellaneous items for sale.
More turmeric and other items.
A lot of people …
This is the lady we bought our turmeric from (because she let us leave our shoes there).
You can tell from the color of their clothes that these people have already been to the temple.
Here’s our first look at what the turmeric is used for.
A very yellow Nandi.
Nana insisted we put turmeric across our foreheads
We begin our ascent.
Coriander
This lady got to be carried up and down the stairs.

I have about the same amount of photos and another video for Part 2 of Jejuri for my next post.

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