1 Sights Kamakhya Mandir HINDU TEMPLE (admission for no queue/short queue/queue 500/100/free; h8am-1pm & 3pm-dusk) While Sati s disintegrated body parts rained toes on Kolkata (see p443), her yoni fell on Kamakhya Hill. This makes Kamakhya Mandir important for shakti (sensual tantric worship of female spiritual power). Goats, pigeons and the occasional buffalo are ritually beheaded in a gory pavilion and the hot, dark inner womblike sanctum is painted red to signify sacrificial blood. The huge June/ July Ambubachi Mela celebrates the end of the mother goddess menstrual cycle with even more blood.
Tripura is culturally and politically fascinating, and the state s handful of royal palaces and temples draw a growing flow of domestic vail to breckenridge distance tourists. For the moment though foreign tourists remain very rare indeed. There s a large Bangladeshi refugee vail to breckenridge distance population in Tripura and much of the more accessible western parts of the state look and feel much like its near neighbour.
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