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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