Bhubaneswar: Engineering students from Australia who are on a student exchange programme to India, today joined the 127th Ekamra Walks Old Town Circuit and were delighted to see the beautiful Kalingan Temple Architecture and style.
Ekamra Walks is an initiative of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) in association with the Department of Tourism and Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) to reinvent the way the locals and tourists reconnect with the Temple City on every Sunday.
More than 10 students from Australia’s leading engineering colleges joined others to form a group of 27 walkers and it commenced from the 10th Century built Mukteswar Temple courtyard. Today’s walk started at 6:30 am and was attended by many professionals, local students among others.
Harry who is heading the Australian contingent informed that he did some research before coming to Bhubaneswar. He said “many of the tourists who come to India, visit places like Goa, Rajasthan or Kerala which are mainstream tourist destinations but we figured out Bhubaneswar is more culturally rich, cleaner and calmer. So we decided to visit this beautiful city of temples”.
The walkers today were fascinated by the old temple traditions which are being followed even today. They were especially curious about the food being prepared at the Ananta Vasudev temple kitchen which they got to see during the walk. Ananta Vasudev is the only Vishnu shrine in the Ekamra Kshetra, which is mainly dotted with Shiva temples.
Georgia, a Mechatronic Engineering student from Australia said “this walk has been amazing. It’s been a really great chance to see everything that the city has to offer and all the new initiatives the city administration is taking up”.
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Ms Kalinga