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A trip to an ancient wonder - The temple of Lepakshi

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This post is actually a late post, a throw back, from the date of my visit to magnificent and architectural wonder temple of Lepakshi. I did this solo trip on one of the long weekends of Holi in 2015 but had failed to write a blog on the same. But few inquiries from friends about the place rekindled the thought of documenting my travel adventure from the pictures and notes taken from guide narration during my visit. As is my annual routine at the start of the year to look for long weekends and visiting places from my bucket list created from various sources, like reading blogs or articles or watching documentaries or some other source. Long weekend of Holi and a place down South was perfect match as Holi is not played with so much zeal and gusto in South of India as compared to North of India. So it was my way to avoid being caught in Holi color riots. Also having read about Lepakshi temple, The stories associated with temple and some of the architectural wonders the temple has, It was