Back in the land of…..

animals… temples, pujas, malla’s and sadhu’s… paan, spices, chilli’s, Indian food……. traffic, lack of water or to much water, sunsets to die for, pink sunrises, colours, mehndis, constructions, fabrics and prints  …… Can’t wait until I get a day to get out and click some pictures

Haircut or shave anyone ?

alongside a road, I guess this man found an empty space among all the advertisements and sat up his salon haircut or shave anyone ? on a much smaller street I found this young man in his salon entrepreneurs everywhere….

Nandgaon, the village on the hill

Nandgaon is really a small village on a hill with the temple in the center and right at the top……winding alleys leading up up…..(only about 9000 people live here) many stairs leading up up up to the temple through the village.. on the way up…. in white before the lath mar celebration started not everyone was involved in the festivities…or maybe he was just…

A chat and a chai

Between the two villages Barsana and Nandgaon I made a little pit stop and everyone smiled when they saw me….well, the kids where laughing actually… no wonder they smiled ….I was really colourful…. it was the colourful houses and the people I saw sitting beside the road that made me stop so out I went for a chat..and as always  I was invited for…

Holi, the festival of colours

started with Lath mar in Barsana in the state of Uttar Pradesh on the 17th march. Tens of thousand of people gather in this little village (9 500 people) to celebrate holi.Legend has it that Lord Krishna was visiting his beloved Radha, who lived in Barsana, on this day and he was teasing her and her friends. The women found this offensive and chased…

Performers/Dancers

at the Arts and Craft museum in Delhi. This is one of my favourite places to go whenever we have visitors. Vendors and performers together with all the exhibitions at the museum and a really good cafe’/lunch place inside makes this a must to do thing when in Delhi. amazing…I couldn’t take my eyes of their makeup and decorations.

Colors of India