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 correntoso lake & river hotel 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.
oHeritage correntoso lake & river hotel Hotel HERITAGE HOTEL $$ (%9774416649; www.theheritage.in; Offi cers Hill; r/ ste 1800/3500; correntoso lake & river hotel W) Back in colonial days this was the home of the deputy commissioner and, with roaring correntoso lake & river hotel open fires taking correntoso lake & river hotel the chill off a cold winter night and hunting trophies and tribal arts adorning the walls, it retains something of the flavour of those times.
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