January 9
I got up this morning and went to a service at St. John's Church with Jerry, Salena, and Carli. The church is located inside the Fort grounds, and there is a bus to take students there from campus. According to a handout that they give to visitors, the current church was built in 1846 and is the oldest church building in Vellore. It was nice to go to a service, but it was too traditional for my taste.
In the afternoon we hiked up College Hill, which is located across from campus. The first path that we took led us to a Muslim burial ground. A man told us that it would be okay for us to come closer, but we didn't want to run the risk of offending anyone so we decided to back track to the other trail that we'd seen. The other track took us to the top of College Hill, where we could look out over Vellore. It's actually bigger than I would have guessed based upon what we have seen while driving around. At first I didn't think that I was going to make it to the top, as we all know that I'm not much of a climber, but eventually I made it. (It's still safe to say that I'm not much of a climber though!)
I got up this morning and went to a service at St. John's Church with Jerry, Salena, and Carli. The church is located inside the Fort grounds, and there is a bus to take students there from campus. According to a handout that they give to visitors, the current church was built in 1846 and is the oldest church building in Vellore. It was nice to go to a service, but it was too traditional for my taste.
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| View of the Fort from the bus |
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| Another view of the Fort |
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| St. John's Church |
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| St. John's Church |
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| Fountain in front of the church |
In the afternoon we hiked up College Hill, which is located across from campus. The first path that we took led us to a Muslim burial ground. A man told us that it would be okay for us to come closer, but we didn't want to run the risk of offending anyone so we decided to back track to the other trail that we'd seen. The other track took us to the top of College Hill, where we could look out over Vellore. It's actually bigger than I would have guessed based upon what we have seen while driving around. At first I didn't think that I was going to make it to the top, as we all know that I'm not much of a climber, but eventually I made it. (It's still safe to say that I'm not much of a climber though!)
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| Start of the trail (You can just see the edge of College Hill on the left of the picture.) |
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| At the top of College Hill (Thanks for the photo, Carli!) Back row: Andy (KU), Devaki (Singapore), Jerry (Singapore), Adedoyin (California), Selena (Singapore) Front row: Carli (Tasmania), Me, Kunlin (Singapore) |
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