Thursday, October 21, 2010

Akshardham Temple

Today we met at school at 8am. After a short breakfast we took again some group pictures, this time at the basketball cord.
After that we drove by bus to the Akshardam temple. We weren't allowed to take pictures at the inside of the temple so we leave our cameras at school.
The temple is really big, the biggest temple in Asia. It was build in only five years.
After a long security control we went to a room with some pictures and figures at the wall. After that we came to the supposable center of the whole complex. We walk through a gate of pillars with a beautiful view at some monuments.
After that we go into the temple. But before we could do this, we had to emit our shoes.
So after that we walked barefooted upstairs to the temple.
In the temple there is a golden Swaminarayan Akshardham in the center and around it there are a lot of pictures and figures of him and his history.
After passing the temple we have to wait for watching an audio animatronic show of Swaminarayan Akshardham.
First we listen to a "talking" stone, then we walked to several rooms to watch a short movie or to watch figures talking. 
So while we watching that, we started to learn about the life of Swaminarayan.
After this audio 3d presentation, we had to wait again for watching a longer movie on a giant screen, this was about Neelkanth Varni, an 11-year-old child-yogis pilgrimage. For that movie we had to wear headphones because the movie is actually in Hindi, the problem was just that the sound of the movie was louder than the sound of the headphones.
After another waiting session, we had a 15 minutes long boat ride, where we learned a lot about the discoveries and inventions of India.
While all that waiting we just felt like the main attraction, because all Indians were starring at us, but thats always like this since we are here. 
At last we went to a souvenir shop. After that we had to go very fast, because it was a bit late and the bus wouldn't wait longer for us.
So we drove back to school, get our bags and went home.


from far away



Talking figures of the Audio Animatronic Show
Talking Stone


Neelkanth Varni
A little piece of the Mandir (temple)
Gate of pillars
Garden of India
Neelkanth Varni

1 comment:

  1. cary quotes:
    the day was bad!
    the evening was wo.....w!!
    the night is snores.... he he!!!
    I quote:
    im abend
    we guyz bought new slippers for cary and a new suit (ethnic wear or indian dress)!!
    she likes dem a lot!!!!
    n we clickd sm pictures tat u guyz cn see on facebook!!!!!

    ...
    eine gute und aufgeregt Abend!

    hip hip hooray! :D :P

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