Travelling around India in 2017/2018 – Gujarat, Goa and Hampi. Read my first India post. Once you read it, you can click next to re-trace my journey. I especially liked my Goan massage!
My first trip to India! So it seems perverse that my first post should be of the humble aubergine plant, which I’d never seen. This photo shows the stages from top to bottom: first the flower, then the aubergine begins to emerge. Finally the flower is subsumed within the aubergine. If the rest of India is this exciting, I’m not sure how I’ll contain myself 😄
OK guys – India is broken. There’s wind and torrential rain right now. What happened to the 33c I’ve had for the past week?! This is beginning to look familiar, except in London the electricity would still be working 😊
In the picturesque Latin Quarter
Again in the Latin Quarter
This sculpture, made of rubber tyres, is in the newly built and very large state library
Church in Panaji is layered like a wedding cake!
These two asked me to take a photo of them!
So many kids…
I thought I’d snap this family whilst they were getting ready 😊
Ah, my favourite – they look so forlorn traipsing around with that hump 😄
Watching the sunset from Anjanadri Hill with a handful of other tourists
A penny for your thoughts 😊
It was too misty a morning to do justice to this alien boulder-rich landscape
Bollywood comes to Hampi!
Rice fields
This monkey couldn’t quite work out how to drink from the bottle. After trying various options, he opted to get down to the level of the water whilst moving the bottle in erratic ways often spilling and wasting the water. Some monkeys are smarter than others.
Working temple
The local mafiosi inspecting Hampi High St
Breakfast was a tasty vegan masala dosa
They pleaded several times to have their photo taken!
At last, here’s my train👏🏽
My departure station at Hospete. Yes it really is 0541! And to think I could have had a lie-in since the train eventually ambled in at 0800😴
My bed, which turned out to be half of my actual bed. The rest is towards you 😄
A photo from inside the train through foggy glass. I like the colours 😊
Joseph Priestley used a similar device to discover oxygen in 1774
The steam box
Some kind of crab!
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Sunrise
Sunset
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Common kingfisher
Osprey