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2002 / India

Road

Sunday, October 20 2002

...being the name of a Bollywood movie that we saw just after our last mail, and the thing that we have been looking at more than anything else for the last week. It's when you travel across the country in India by road that you get some more idea of what 'third world' really means. And it's not so much the poverty -...  read more

Hello from India

Monday, October 7 2002

Hey everyone, Kim & Mat here. Just wanted to let you all know that we have arrived in India safely, and are having a fabulous (interesting to say the least) time. Everything went to plan, meeting the family in Delhi, then starting our Intrepid tour. We are in Japiur now, having already visited Delhi...  read more

 

My favourite photo that I actually took. Didn't mean to have the Taj reflected at all, complete fluke, but I'll take it. :)
Pondering the Taj Mahal
 
Ah, nuts
 
A carpet making factory near Agra. This is where I bought my very nice green carpet, currently on *very* extended loan to Kim...
Carpet making
 
Some of the little ones hanging about in Mayur Vihar, Delhi
Nicku, Ashu and co
 
There ain't nothing like a pool party in the middle of India in the cool of the evening.
Pool party
 
Somewhere in the middle of Rajasthan, one of the old palaces of the Raj converted into a hotel for yon tourist's pleasure. Some cool photos of old boys standing on top of large recently shot tigers, with a retinue of about 50 locals standing around them
Rajasthani Palace
 
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present - How not to wear a document wallet, by Mat McDonald. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>Would you believe that I still have that tshirt with me? Not quite the same colour nowadays...
Spot the tourist
 
Dawn in Agra
Sunrise
 
Just about the only decent panorama shot I've taken... I like that there is something nice in the foreground of each of the three stitched shots.
Taj Mahal panorama
 
The ghats (steps to the river) at Varanasi are one of the holiest places in India - if you manage to die in Varanasi and get cremated in the correct manner, at the ghat funeral pyres, and if you were the right kind of person in life, then you achieve nirvana. Something like that. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>They are the focus of the city and markets are all along the edge, people are washing clothes and themselves (dubiously - not sure if they come out cleaner than they went in) and the whole place abounds with colour.
The Ghats
 
The residency was the Governor's palace of Lucknow in the 1860s when the Indians rebelled against the British. In here, for (I think) ten months, a large number of British women, children, soldiers and a few loyal Indian troops held out with huge numbers of rebels attacking daily. The building has been left the way it was when relief troops finally arrived. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>The thing is, the residency and grounds are about as defensible as the bottom of a well - it's just not conceivable, wandering around, how they did it. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>Of course, to the Indians in the park nowadays the rebellion represented the first step towards independence, and is revered. You get a slightly different look from the locals here. Anyway, they won - that's why it cost us 5 times as much to get into the place.
The residency
 

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 By: Tacki on Wednesday, February 2 2005

In general, I love your pictures. They are so beautiful.

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