051100 - November 2005 India by niiicedave ● portfotolio

niiicedave: India, March and November 2005

niiicedave: DSCN1320 My Niece Tuckered Out!

niiicedave: DSCN1323 Learn your ABCs 123s and एक' ख' ग's

niiicedave: India, March and November 2005

niiicedave: DSCN1326 1 - Indian monkeys are all over the place - in cities, in the country. They are primates - quite the sight

niiicedave: India, March and November 2005

niiicedave: DSCN1328 - Huge monkey colony - and they are everywhere. In Agra hotels, you have to keep your windows closed or they'll get in!

niiicedave: India, March and November 2005

niiicedave: DSCN1330 Huge monkey colony

niiicedave: DSCN1331 India's rural highways have lots of these stops - some are operated by gangsters collecting extortions - and they issue the standard threat "If you don't pay, we have people down the road who will hurt you."

niiicedave: DSCN1340 forget the Hindi for it, but it translates as "contraption" - to get it to move, simply drop in a water pump and pull the chord, - it can go about 15 MPH tops. This one hauls about 10 children to class - it sounds like "prutprutprutprut"

niiicedave: DSCN1377

niiicedave: India, March and November 2005

niiicedave: DSCN1378

niiicedave: India, March and November 2005

niiicedave: DSCN1522 This road is built the old fashioned way - which makes for a very bumpy road full of enormous potholes - The new modern paving is resisted -

niiicedave: DSCN1523 - Hand road crews still maintain this road - results less than spectacular