Rameshwaram is the eastern most tip of India. Rameshwaran is actually an island connected to the mainland by a 20 years old bridge over the Pamban channel and is less than 40 kilometers from the Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka. It is considered to be one of the holiest places in India to Hindus. A lot of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees come to Rameshwaram on small boats sailing through the gulf of Mannar.
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Rameshwaran has one of the most important and oldest hindu temples in India. I really enjoyed going to Hindu temples because they are full of locals praying, while when you go to a temple in Europe it’s full of tourists! Hindu temples are really old, and are also special in the way they are built. Even the small ones seem very peaceful yet are still beautiful with the statues, the art, the paintings on the walls and ceilings and the flowers and colorful sarees on the statues.
Rameswaran
The most eastern tip of Rameshwaram is Danushkodi. The people who live here are fisherman who reside in straw houses in little villages. You can only go there on a an industrial truck since there are no roads, just sand. The whole area is a beach with the ocean on both sides. Danushkodi is full of remains, specially the big remain of a catholic church. Danushkodi it’s simple life at its best!
Danushkodi, close to the poing in which the finger of India try to touch sri lanka
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