Monday

India Unplugged

November-December 2006

"If you visit India for a day, you can write a book. If you visit for a week, you can write a few lines. If you stay a month, you cannot write a word." (Vivek, our group leader- he "read it somewhere")
The group at the Red Fort, Agra

Taj Mahal at sunset

Lake Pushkar, Pushkar

Ghats of Varanasi

Desert lake in Jaiselmer

Lisa and I at the Taj early in the morning

Sarah, Jenna, Lisa, Andy, Tara and I on the last day in Kolkata

About to board an overnight train in Agra for Varanasi

Sunrise over the Ganges in Varanasi (view from hotel)

School childern at the School for the deaf in Udaipur

The only temple to Lord Brahma in India, Pushkar

Temple on Lake Pichola, Udaipur

The search for bangles in Pushkar

View from my balcony in Jaiselmer

Camel safari in the Great Thar Desert

The Spice Markets, Delhi

At I-India, a charity organisation for abused and neglected children in Jaipur

Bangkok and the floating markets


Gold-leafed archway to a school in Bangkok

Sellers on the floating markets, 90 mins outside of Bangkok

More produce

Billy looking "ridiculously goood-looking" in a Thai hat

Standing Buddha

Floating commerce, Billy buys bananas (cheap!)

My coffee fix at Starbucks (I was desperate), escaping the heat and crazy Koh San Road to keep the journal up-to-date

Hats for sale on the floating markets