to be one of the holiest places in India and is the eastern point on the revered Char Dham circuit of pilgrimage sites (along with Rameswaram in the south, Dwarka in the west, and Badrinath in the north). It is considered highly sacred to complete the Char Dham circuit, and the centrepiece of this pigrimage in Puri is the huge Jagannath Temple, an enormous complex which is home to more than 5000 priests and aides. Unfortunately, only Hindus are permitted in the temple, so we watched the sunset over Jagannath from the Raghunandan Library's rooftop.
Today our tour of the Odisha tribal areas came to an end as we drove through the countryside to the small town of Puri, one of the holiest pilgrimage places in India. Puri also has a wonderful long sandy beach. We explored the old pilgrim route by cycle-rickshaw, taking in an ashram, a Hindu monastery, a palm leaf manuscript library, and seeing awesome Jagannath temple, one of the four most sacred Hindu pilgrimage sites in India. Puri is one of the oldest cities in the eastern part of India and an important destination for Hindu pilgrims - it is considered by Hindus
to be one of the holiest places in India and is the eastern point on the revered Char Dham circuit of pilgrimage sites (along with Rameswaram in the south, Dwarka in the west, and Badrinath in the north). It is considered highly sacred to complete the Char Dham circuit, and the centrepiece of this pigrimage in Puri is the huge Jagannath Temple, an enormous complex which is home to more than 5000 priests and aides. Unfortunately, only Hindus are permitted in the temple, so we watched the sunset over Jagannath from the Raghunandan Library's rooftop.
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