Meenakshi Temple

On Saturday we went to Meenakshi Temple, the largest temple in Madurai and center of town. Mennakshi Temple is devoted to the godess Meenakshi, wife of Shiva. The couple was married in Maduria, Meenakshi's home, the reason the temple is located in Madurai. Dr. V gave a briefe talk about the story surrounding Meenakshi and we set off for the temple at 9 am. We walked around the temple stopping and hearing about particular deities and their stories. We stayed in the temple for two hours walking around and observing and did not even see half the temple...I believe we saw a fourth at the most. The temple was amazing and is so large, I have to go back another time to explore more! After the temple we went to lunch at a nearby restaurant and were split into teams for our scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt had a long list of things like: Sugumaran's (my host dad)shop, strange fruit, weird toys, health dogs, cattle, Neeva's Bakery, creepy dolls, a particular shop's Manequins, Meenakshi Images, bangles ect. My group was me, Chris and Fabi. We set off first going to my host fathers shop and then worked our way around the temple somewhat aimlessly searching for items on this list. The scavenger hunt was in the middle of the day when the sun was the hottest so quickly we began to get very tired, hot and thirsty. But we managed to still have a good time, we came back to SITA way earlier than we needed but by the end we were pretty tired. We had attacked the scavenger hunt in a fast pace and should have taken our time drifting into shops and such. Below I will post some Images from the scavenger hunt and Meenakshi Temple.