Bhubaneswar: On the Day 1 of the World Heritage Week, the Ekamra Walks Sunday had some special guests like two friends from the Czech Republic, who are on a world tour, walkers from Romania and the USA.
While the walkers enjoyed the heritage sojourn from Mukteswar, the surprise flute recital at the end of the walk on the bank of Bindusagar gave a musical touch to the city’s heritage walk.
Iona Uzum, from Romania, who came with her daughter, said, “I have really enjoyed the entire heritage walk and I will definitely tell my friends about that.”
Hannah Barnes, an American artist, said: “I am really happy to explore such a wonderful temple architecture tradition and building style. I would like to visit this place again.”
Vit and Karolina, travellers from Ostrava in Czech Republic, who are on global tour joined the 49th Ekamra Walks Sunday and were very happy to discover the unique temple building style of the Kalingan era.
“We started our journey in August from our city Ostrava and so far covered nations like Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran and India. Although, we wanted to visit Pakistan, we failed to get the visa as there is border issues there,” said Vit.
Vit, a student of marketing, has left his studies to take up the world tour. His friend Karolina who is a physiotherapist, also left her job to join Vit on the tour. From Bhubaneswar, they would go to the City of Joy Kolkata and then to Nepal and after visiting the Himalayan country, would explore Australia.
The walkers visited Mukteswar, Parsurameswar, Swarnajaleswar, Kotitirtheswar, Bindusagar, Ananta Vasudev, Doodhwala Dharamsala, Lingaraj, Chitrakarini, Sari temple, Mohini, Vaitaal temple and Ekamra Van, the medicinal plant garden.
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