Only in India 2

May 2013, 
1:1 One is working and one is telling him what to do

Cricket at lunch break right outside the office

Papayas




Teaching his son how to do his Sikh turban 

Upside down

first bath in the holy waters of the Golden temple lake

Devoted

Purifying waters

Indian police women


Prasad (a blessing) at the Golden temple, a warm mixture of ghee (pure butter), jaggari (raw sugar), wheat flour, cooked with lots of cardamon and milk. Made me feel so humble ...

Sikhs work voluntarily at the temple   

Everybody- doctors, lawyers, teachers, housewives, workers, everybody works for the others






Amritsar synagog 


Degrees on offer

Sadu, a holy man leaving from other people's charity

he wasn't at school and loved it!

Marigolds outside the temple









 Buddhist Prayer flags in the foot of the hYmalayas

The highest point in the Hymalayas Rohtang Pass we reached at 3 978m

My kind of colour 

newly weds


Om shanti tattoo on the old lady's hand

Golden mushrooms? 

Looking positively delisious

roast corn just like my Grandad used to make it...

One of the many signs on the Hymalayan roads

Hiring coats and skis in May


the Pipe piper of Manali


Gulab Jamuns 



More street food

the new Indians

never managed to ask what was that exactly apart from being told that it is a local vegetable, looks a bit ailien, right?

candy floss colour

somewhere in the Hymalayas

the crisps packets look like overstuffed cushions up in the mountains as the atmospheric pressure is too high

I miss Ellie

Papuji- Gandhi, the father of the nation

The local folk costume

Is she in Windermere ?



at the ATM 




our beautician


Paan, 


coconut 

our driver buying some snacks


the Hannuman's temple in Delhi


it was in May







Indira Gandhi's house


This was a Delhi specialty, sweet and sour, 

Our carriage to the Taj Mhhal 



New weds

the only signature of the creators of the Taj Mahal the monument of internal love

our driver just had his hair dyed and we called him to pick us up

Fresh lyches 

the cucumber seller

surreal

the colour of life

why not

the Lotus temple, where all religions can worship together

belhpuri seller

ohhhhhhhhhh, parathas, flaked pastries stuffed with spicy potatoes

clothes to feel your eyes and soul with colour

the shop owner

chachi- auntie, I love her
that's how you shop in Amritsar 




Mother and son


the Golden temple, one of my most favourite places in India, felt so at home there



the wedding band musicians

the groom

Felt welcomed and loved



the Easter Bunny

the saffron seller



Goats are highly respected in temples

Is Ganesha holding a pair of what I think he is holding?



In Dalai Lama's monastery


new age hippies

Tibetan ladies selling jewelry 


Buddhist prayer wheels



No parking?

Sadu on the phone

Sadu blessing a passer by


Cakes looking a little bit radioactive

At sun rising

tea plantations

UFO?


They made my Pashmina

The village Post office

shol children









Parathas maker




the village elders preparing the temple for celebration


at school



army school




high school girls



Buddhist monk at prayer

surely there is not enough space to pass through










the hard work women have to do


in the White Flower hotel in Shimla, snow in May

Fig Kulfi the delicious Indian ice-cream








"Compose yourselves, boys!" a large group of private school boys entered the little train we were in













the crow temple in Delhi











Not sure what were these chimney like towers on regular distances between Delhi and Agra, the driver said that they were ventilation towers fort he underground tunnel between the two cities built for the rulers, as they could travel above ground. Sounds a bit unreal









the maverick of all trucks































































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