The Statues<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOur driver had waited for us, so we got into the car and started making our way back to the hotel.\u00a0 We didn’t get far before we got behind an ox cart with a large statue of Vishnu on it.\u00a0\u00a0The cart would stop\u00a0every few buildings and people would come out\u00a0to the street and offer prayers.\u00a0\u00a0Slowly but\u00a0surely, we made our way back through the winding streets, past the animals and throngs of people, and back to the familiar honking, motorcycle and rickshaw filled\u00a0main thoroughfare.\u00a0 Back at the hotel, we were full and exhausted, but we knew\u00a0even then that our evening at their home for dinner would be one of our fondest travel memories ever.\u00a0 We wish we had more pictures to share of the evening, but we were there as their guest, not as tourists, so we did not take any other pictures of that wonderful evening.\u00a0 Since returning home, we’ve tried several times to replicate the potato curry that we were served, without much success.\u00a0 Some things can’t be duplicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The old saying is true, without risk there can be no reward.\u00a0 Perhaps risk is too strong of a word, maybe it should be\u00a0that if you don’t take\u00a0the chance, you’ll miss out on a great experience.\u00a0 There have been several examples of this during our travels, but there was one experience that stands out for … <\/p>\n
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