Saturday 27 September 2014

Bodhgaya, Buddhism’s holiest city, in pictures

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2014/09/bodhgaya-buddhisms-holiest-city-in-pictures.html

Bodhgaya, Buddhism’s holiest city, in pictures

September is a strange time in Bodhgaya. It’s stretched between the hot and muggy monsoon season of N.E. India and the gradual onset of the cool season. Over the three weeks we’ve been here, the temperatures have gone up and down (highs ranging from around 95F/35C to a cool 85F /29C) but the humidity has steadily dropped from the stultifying 85+% to a merciful 65% during the day.
It is still low season for tourists, so we get the city and her 38,000 or so inhabitants mostly to ourselves. Life is slow.

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