Sarnath

Just time to post another blog! A lump of gold or rather a stone column covered in gold leaf

the stupa where Buddha is thought to have given his first sermon

5th century carving

and this is the temple where Buddha meditated and the two

columns are covered in gold leaf, some very old, some new and glittering in the sun.

Such a peaceful place to visit, after hurly and burly of Varanasi.

Time to catch the sleeper to Jabalpur, then to Kanha to hunt tigers on an elephant!