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Festival of La Candelaria Puno February 2019
Posted in Peru South America, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized
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PUNO, PERU. THE SURREAL FESTIVAL OF THE VIRGIN ‘LA CANDELARIA’ 2019
I could see Lake Titicaca in the distance as the plane descended to land at Juliaca Airport, about an hour away from Puno. Although I had been here a few weeks before I hadn’t seen the immense lake from the … Continue reading
Posted in PERU 2019, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Aymara, Festival La Candelaria, FESTIVAL OF THE VIRGIN 'LA CANDELARIA', Fiesta, Inca, Lake Titicaca, Peru, photography, Puno
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NAGALAND INDIA .. FROM HEADHUNTERS TO BAPTISTS
Flying to Dibrugarh Airport in Assam took us over the devastating flooding of the Brahmaputra river, India’s only ‘male’ river ..pretty as it looked from the air, with the sun glistening on the water, underneath were 500,000 acres of destroyed … Continue reading
Posted in India 2015, Nagaland, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Headhunters, India, Naga, Nagaland, North East India, photography
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KASHMIR PARADISE ON EARTH ?
It was a two day drive from Manali to Srinigar, and most of the second day we were driving in Kashmir on the heavily guarded N1, with tanks, police machine gun posts and truck loads of Indian soldiers on permanent … Continue reading
Posted in India 2015, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Dal Lake, Edwina Mountbatten, Jinnah, Kashmir, Kashmir Houseboats, Khanqah Shah Hamdan Mosque, Mountbatten, Muslim women, Nehru, Pakistan, photography, Shalimar, sriniga
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FOOTHILLS OF THE HIMALAYAS , SIMLA AND MANALI
The drive from Haridwar to Simla or Shimla looked a short distance on the map but as with most of Indian roads it took longer than planned. Slow means more interesting though, and 5 minutes spent in a traffic jam … Continue reading
Posted in India, India 2015, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged himalayas, India, manali, raj, shimla, simla, the british empire
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BACK TO DELHI AND ON TO HARIDWAR
I always found going back to Delhi exciting and this blog is an amalgam of back to Delhi from Nepal, and ten months later back to Delhi from France before a road trip up to Kashmir, which apparently was on … Continue reading
Posted in India, India 2015, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged brahma, delhi, Ganga Aart, Har Ki Pauri ghat, Haridwar, Hindu Gods, India, Islam, islamic architecture, Jama Masjid Mosque, muslims, Old City Delhi, Red fort, Urdu language, Vishnu and Maheshwar
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CALCUTTA A CITY OF CULTURE AND REFUGEES..draft
” Poverty and Pride..Side by Side” Rudyard Kipling on Calcutta “You are never alone in Calcutta” Michael Jennings The Howrah Mail ( “ the superfastmail train of Indian railways connecting two metropolitan cities of India, Kolkata and Chennai” ..Fast is all rather … Continue reading
Posted in INDIA 2014, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged 1943 famine, Baboo Ghat, black hole of calcutta, Chandra Bose, Chowringhee, communist party of india, durga puja, ganges, Hooghey, Howrah Bridge, Howrah mail, independence, Job Charnock, Kalikata temple, Kolkata, Mahalaya, Mullik Ghat Flower Market, partition, photography
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VARANASI THE HOLY CITY
The corner shop next to the Gulnor hotel had the most delicious of vegetable samosas, so with four of these and some fruit and water I was ready for the night train to Varanasi. I had organised with Abid at … Continue reading