Of all the pools in Tirtha Empul there was one guarded by shoulder high walls and no obvious way to reach the water.<\/p>\n
The colour of the water was a gorgeous turquoise fringed with green. Longs thin strands of dark green algae as fine as angle’s hair held tenuously to the bottom as the bubbling water gushed from a rent in the centre of the pool.<\/p>\n
Dark sand bubbled and broiled as the bottom shifted and moved with the flowing spring. No wonder this place was made sacred centuries ago, now off limits to mere mortals<\/p>\n
At least the birds still have the freedom to swoop in on sacred wings and drink as they please.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 887, Sacred Wings’ 1\/1600s f\/2.8 ISO3200 200mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Of all the pools in Tirtha Empul there was one guarded by shoulder high walls and no obvious way to reach the water. The colour of the water was a gorgeous turquoise fringed with green. Longs thin strands of dark green algae as fine as angle’s hair held tenuously to the bottom as the bubbling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}