Akshardham Temple

I visited the Akshardham Temple today. It was build about 15 years ago and took 7,000 craftsman about 5 years to build and carve. The carvings and architecture are amazing. The base of the building had 114 elephants around it and several other animals all carved in pink stone. No electronics were allowed inside the place, so I did not even bring my camera.

Here is a link of the site to see a few pics http://www.akshardham.com/

I wasted about 2 hours going through their Exhibitions 2 were mainly focused on the god of the church, Neelkanth Varni later know as Bhagwan Swaminarayan, who was around in the 1700's. It is an impressive story as the god at age 4 already began teaching his ways of life. It is purely peace, harmony, and the vegetarian way.

There is a church of this same religion in Chicago.

At least the Saturday's I go touristing the sky is blue. However once again it is hot out there today. It is around 110.

I left the Temple around 2 and decided I needed something more modern for the rest of the day. I went to the Great India Place, the biggest mall in the area. I went to TGIF for lunch and had the lamb burger. It was burnt and had tin foil on it, but I was hungry and it went down. I also had a Tiger beer. It was about the size of a 40. That went down pretty easily also. After that I walked around the mall for a while and came back home.

My driver was struggling but I enjoyed the trip. His horn was not working. I heard him beating on the horn, but no sound came it out. It was quiter drive than normal.

A new record, I saw 7 people on a motorcycle. It was kid, dad, kid, kid, mom holding two babies. Of course the only person wearing a helmet was dad. The man is always the only one wearing a helmet. Occasionally I will see a man wearing cotton gloves that go up to his elbows. This is to protect his skin from the sun. The ladies that drive a scooter always are wearing those type of gloves. The ladies driving a scooter are a new phenomenon around here. It has only started in the last couple of years and is still a rare site.

Tomorrow I am off to see a couple more sites.