Travels With a Swami

In the mid-1970s a 20-something party girl from LA becomes aware of the spiritual life in India and decides to travel there. She meets a female Swami in a Himalayan ashram and the women then spend 5 weeks traveling together to holy shrines throughout South India.Her travels begin in Spain and Italy funded by the proceeds of a coffee table book she compiled and sold to Bantam Books New York. Her true journey begins when she meets a charismatic female swami and together they embark on an adventure of a lifetime visiting many spiritual pilgrimage sites rarely seen by foreigners.In a very personal detailed and intimate portrait of a special journey author Laura D'Auri takes the reader through a world unknown to most people. She entertains her readers with one-of-a-kind experiences including:?               Visiting various Hindu pilgrimage shrines.?               Spending time at an ashram in the Himalayas.?               Getting dysentery in Benares.?               Experiencing a 2000-year-old labyrinth.?               Visiting a holy shrine high on a mountain.?               Enjoying city life with friends in Chennai.Full of heart Travels With A Swami follows Laura's travels from the mundane to the sacred to the dangerous and everywhere in between. It's a perfect read for those fascinated by travel and India or anyone interested in spirituality. Those who enjoy learning about Hinduism will relate to many of the themes and anecdotes.