Next stop on my summer tour from May 5 – 8 was Karlovac. Its about an hour south west of Zagreb.

Its a small town of about 60,000 but we have a nice center with approx. 40 active devotees. The temple is a small rented apartment three floors up in a one hundred years old building in the down town area.

Their Gaura Nitai Deities are extremely attractive and apparently were made by a devotee in Europe.

Despite the limited facilities the devotees are enthusiastic in their preaching and the turn out for the Sunday feast was very good, as was the attendance for the morning and evening classes.

The evening seminar topics were Cleanliness and Book Writing and I also did four SB classes.

One thing  I took advantage of was the fact that one of the devotees, Srivasa Pandita prabhu, works in a health spa. Just before setting out on my tour, I put my lower back out and it gave me quite a bit of trouble, especially when actually traveling, lugging my luggage, and getting in and out of cars etc.

We drove to the Leshche thermal spa for an afternoon session and my visit was both enjoyable and therapeutic. Its a big set up with inside and outside spas.  It sits on the banks of clear gushing mountain stream.

The spa waters are piped up from some deep underground volcanic source so I took a dip in the inside spa for half an hour, combined with an expert massage from Srivasa Pandita prabhu. It really helped a lot.

Meantime my tour arranger and companion on my travels, Radhe Govinda prabhu, took advantage of the outside facilities.

As payment Srivasa Pandita prabhu requested me to attend the installation of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai at  his home in Bosiljevo on May 9, a short drive from Karlovac.

It was a nice program and attended by a full house of enthusiastic devotees.

After taking a little delicious maha-prasadam

the devotees gave us a blissful send off for our trip to Split, four hours away in the south.

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