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Indonesian ballet with traditional music

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                                                                  Indonesian Ramayana and fire dance                                 Indonesian Ramayana is called Kekak Ramayana in their language. He say that every visitor should see at least one dance and if you plan to see then this should be it. The combination of ancient ritual, dance, drama, sunset and cliff of setting makes Kekak Ramayana and Fire dance one of the most spectacular dance performances imaginable. Accompanied by a choir of chanting and singing men with the be a memory that will stay with you long after you leave this, the island of the Gods.                       ...
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    I have got an opportunity to visit Dhyana Buddha ghat during Krishna pushkaralu at Amaravathi which was situated at the banks of river Krishna.The magnificent statue of Buddha which is about 125 feet tall is worth viewing.                             

Penchalakona

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     During karthik masam ,we had been to Penchalakona ,a famous Narasimha kshetram, which is situated around 70 kms distance  from Nellore  via  Rapur  , by our car.       There is a bus facility from Rapur to Nellore for every half an hour around 30 kms distance from there.Government tourist guest houses will be available for people who are coming from the  distant places .        History;' Penu' means huge and 'Sila' means rock .Penusila kona became Penchalakona in course of time .  Lord.Narasimha swami killed a demon called Hiranya kashyap and self manifested (Swayam bhuvu) himself as a rock here.The Lakshmi Narasimha swamy temple is situated at the foot of the hill                                          . Temple premises :                   ...

My journey to Varanasi

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    Varanasi is known as the spiritual capital of India.The city is in between two ghats named Varun and Assi. So the town is called as Varanasi.It is also called as Kashi and Benaras.,which is situated at the banks of the river Ganges.         Recently a ten members of Our team went  there to perform my mother-in-law's annual funeral customary rites.We stayed at Ganga view guest house which is very near to the ghats.On 5th and6th April we have done the rituals successfully.    At the evening we had taken a  boat ride at river Ganga .The guide cum boat rider well explained about the ghats .Hetold us that there are approximatly 360 above ghats are existed .Harischandra ghat and Manikarnika ghat are known for funeral rites     We have seen Ganga harthi from the boat.It was really amazing.We offered deep harthi to holiGanga. We went to Kashi Vish...