Today was a colorful adventure! Fina, Sean, Frida & I went with The Urban Study Group (USG) to Shakhari Bazaar in Old Dhaka to look at the preparations for the hindu "Puja celebrations" together with some other foreigners. We arrived at 8.30 and were walking around Hindu Street and its connecting streets for about 3,5 hrs. It was SO fun, but also very hot and humid and therefore exhausting.
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| A woman making flower decorations for the puja. |
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| Hindu Street in Old Dhaka |
For Durga Puja, the 24th of october, the hindus decorate the streets with lights, flowers and stages with statues especially made for the celebrations. On the 24th they carry all the statues in a parade down to the river, where they sink them. The story is that the Godess Durga is coming home to earth to visit her family, and therefore the people celebrate, and on the 24th when Durga is going back they help her with this by carrying her down to the river.
We went to the temples, watched people decorate the stages, looked at historical buildings and enjoyed the happy spirits of the locals.
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| Stage with hindu statues built over the street. |
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| Decorations and statues in a temple. |
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| One of the temples. |
After a yummy lunch in a local restaurant, the four of us squeezed into a CNG and made our way home through the steaming hot city.
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