Mayapur

“It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everyone would benefit by doing it.” - George Harrison

The first stop of the day was to Matiari village to see copper and brass manufacture but due to the festival season the large manufacture was closed however we visited small family businesses where they demonstrated the making of brass and copper products. Most work is done from 2 am and they stop by 10 am due to high heat. The products were of high quality and so I took my wallet off holidays and made some small puchases..

We then wandered back to the vegetable market where we were given a shopping bag and a name of a product written in Bengali and English plus 20 rupees for our purchase.. This was a lot of fun however most of the villages had good English making it a very easy task. I had to purchase ,Garlic and for. 20 rupee I got about 300gms.

On the way back to the country boat we wandered through the fish market which was so interesting to think all fresh water fish all look healthy and there was not an over fishy smell. Not sure if you can see the blade the gentleman uses to fillet the fish but it was a skill you would need to learn properly else you might be short of a finger or two.

For lunch we had a nice starter look at the pretty picture.

After lunch the boat cruised to Mayapur from the boat could have thought it was the Vatican City the church but it was the ISKCON Hare Krishna construction for the largest temple in the world construction started in 2019 and still has 2 more years to complete so much wealth on display it dominated the skyline. We were meet by a local guide who was an Australian originally from Sydney who had live there for 43 years. We were not allowed to take photos in the main temple but the pilgrims where on there tummies bowed in prayer so much devotion difficult for me to comprehend.