After the second day on the Hooghly River, we anchor at a small ruined Shiva temple in the evening.

We tie the boat to the steps that lead from the temple to the river. Believers take their ritual bath here.

Shiva is the most important god in India. Shiva is destroyer and he is renewer.

Shiva is the god of the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

Brahma creates our universe, Vishnu receives it, Shiva purifies and transforms it to create something new.