Rameswaram

After the stress of the marriage arrangements etc. we decided to go for few days to the ocean again and we went to Rameswaram, on of the very famous ancient Tirtha (holy place) of south india. It is only 20 km away from sri Lanka, and most of that distance are coral riffs, with a great living world of all kind of fishes! When you enter Rameswaram you will smell it!!
We stayed in a quite luxuous place with view on the ocean from our balcony, and not far from the main temple. The temple also houses more then 22 holy sweet water wells, where pilgrims take bath. The building of that temple with his corridors are spectacular to see with huge pillars and halls. One of the many shrines inside impressed me the most. It was a Nataraja Shiva (dancing), but everything was covered with millions of Rudrakshas. Unfortunate i was not allowed to make a pic, otherwise you could see it. That place is very busy by many pilgrims from north india, who do they catur dham yatra (4 places to be visited Badrinatha in the himalayas, Dwaraka in west - near pakistan border, Jagannath puri east coast close to Bengal and Rameswaram), also Rameswaram is considered to be the Kashi (Varanasi) in south and who ever comes here and bathes gets Moksha.
We did also go by boat to the coral riffs to swimm a bit and my mask was not good enough to see for a long time under water. We went to Danush Koti the very end of India, were both oceans the bay of Bengal and the indian ocean meet. That was the best place we have seen so far. The waves where calm, and the beach very clean!!! What a wonder... Of course nobody lived there in this place, therefore nobody could do harm to nature. See the link of google earth Rameswaram!