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31st January, Varaha Dvadasi will mark 12 years since the opening of our Vrinda Kunda Temple! To celebrate, we will do special parikramas to the Holy Places of Braja. The program will culminate with our famous Kalash Yatra, an ecstatic Sankirtan procession with the ladies carrying water pots with coconuts on their heads on 8 Feb. Programs will be going on from 31 jan-15 Feb.

We will depart almost every morning from Krishna Balaram Mandir by bus and go on parikrama to different pastime places of Braja. There will be lively narrations of the different pastimes that happened in each place. Then we will return in time for lunch prasadam in the temple. And on all bus parikramas, Sannyasis and Prabhupada Disciples and their families will go free of charge.

Then on Sunday 8th Feb., we will be having the super ecstatic Kalash Yatra and sankirtan procession around Nandagrama. Kalash means water pot. All the ladies will carry water pots with water from the sacred Pavana Sarovara with colorful cloth and coconuts on top. We'll have 108 pots and the Brijbasi ladies will train our foreign lady devotees how to carry them. Even some of our own ladies who go every year will train them! The Brijbasinis even dance with no hands with their pots on their heads! All the ladies who have participated told me it was the highlight of their Vrindavan experience. That day is free for everyone!

After reaching at Vrinda Kunda, there will be Krishna Katha, butter churning festival, artika and then feast for one and all. Then everyone can help feed all the Nandagram Brijbasis. That day all transportation and prasad will be
free for all who come.

So please come relish wonderful Vaisnava association in the Holy Dhama! Especially for those coming for the Anniversary Festivals at Tirupati, Ujjain, Aravade, and Noida on Nityananda Trayodasi and are wondering what to do till Mayapur Festival starts, most of our parikramas will take place after Nityananda Trayodasi.

Parikrama Schedule

31st Jan Feast at Vrinda Kunda
Feb
. 1st Nityananda Trayodasi, Festival in Krishna Balaram Mandir
. 2nd Nagara Sankirtan and feast at Nityananda Vat
. 3rd Narottama's App. Feast at Radha Vraja Mohan Mandir
. 4th Vrindavan Temples
. 5th Javat - Ter Kadamba - Vrinda Kunda (lunch at Vrinda Kunda)
. 7th Govardhana Parikrama
. 8th Vrinda Kunda Festival (feast at Vrinda Kunda) Free
. 9th Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Vyasa Puja
. 10th Radha Kunda - Kusum Sarovara
. 11th Raval Gokula
. 13th Barsana
. 14th Man Sarovar, Bhandirvan, Baelvan

For your travel needs as well as assistance for booking accommodation in outside guesthouses you can contact Advaita Acarya Dasa at our Information Center at <wc.vrindavan@gmail.com> His phone no. is +91 9557849475. He can also arrange a taxi to pick you up from the airport or train station. For booking in the Krishna Balaram Guesthouse, you can contact <ganapati.gkg@pamho.net> or +91 565 2540021. For MVT <MVT@pamho.net> or +91 565 3207578.

Also these days you can book your train reservations on line at <http://www.indianrail.gov.in/index.html>

Pics from previous:
https://picasaweb.google.com/107933972114997931524/KalashYatra2011

Pics from last year
https://www.facebook.com/geetgovind.das/media_set?set=a.619665904715543.1073741
825.100000164182865&type=3

In service of Srimati Vrinda Devi,
Deena Bandhu dasa