söndag 19 januari 2014

Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu


Dance Festival for big and small

Hotel breakfast indian style

MC guys on their way...

a view from the balcony...

...on the beach

Arjuna Penance cave

Maybe some sugar cotton?

a view to the temple from a restaurant

...waiting for the lunch...
...one more evening with folk dances

market outside the festival place

big and small, sweet and even more sweet

one masala chai, please

very beautiful stone carvings!



and big stones too



proud father and daughter

sunday picknick outside the caves



relaxing by the pool...

lördag 18 januari 2014

Choundri Chauw - Old Delhi Market

Look at old House, like driver says :-)

Working cow, also driver´s comment :-)

Spice market - chilli transport

Indian Spices...

Waiting for a job...

Bicycle still in use for transportation...

Silver smith's alley

Ironing place

What do we have here?

... and here?

How many girls can a rikshaw take?

Many men on the market, as usual

Cycle-rikshaw stand by the temple

"music department" and others

everybody gets tired

onsdag 15 januari 2014

Dehli days

Nice to be back in Dehli. Last time we thought we were done with Dehli sightseeing, but we were wrong... we have just missed at least 140 places of interest...

... starting with Qutab Minar - an impressive tower  and ruins around it - really worth visiting...

Carvings and colonade are inspired by or even taken (I mean that it was transported/stolen?) from some hindu temples while other arcitecture is islamic

Guess what´s here? 

Another day visiting the Modern Art Museum, yes a bit of a contrast to the ruins, but fun to see the metal sculpture made from buckets...

It is winter in Dehli and it's chilly, we also want a fur and to be cozy.

Sight Nr.2 - "mini Taj Mahal" - beautiful, very nice, but not the real thing ha ha... Now only 138 sights left :-)

Some parathas and chai make you fine!

What would be a day without a visit to a market?