Hiking for hours in the Himalayas

After 4 and a half hour of hiking in quite steep and difficult terrain we where slightly tired and our muscles where aching but our lungs where filled with fresh air  ….we got to see a tiny himalayan owl, a white bellied musk deer, birds, monkeys and a lizzard besides from all of the flowers, trees and plants…awesome hike but challenging almost like home…

Road trip to the Himalayas

we decided to drive to our resort in the Himalayas and what a beautiful road trip it turned out to be…it’s literally breathtaking !  the winding roads takes you higher and higher.. since our lovely maid is from Shimla we invited her and her family to come along so that they could visit her mother Shimla and there it was..our hotel.. wow !! I…

Faces of India

I had to stop and get a picture since this man was so cool just sitting there.. as always fun filled and amazing encounters…it seems like I never get tired of these moments…    

Necessity, the mother of inventions

at first I didn’t get what this man was doing…all I could see was that he was pedalling but standing still but then aha !……he’s a knife sharpener. innovative ! and it has got to be the green way to get sharp knives

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….

Time traveling

sometimes it’s like traveling back in time when you see people here in India doing things the way they where done in Sweden like 100 years ago…. laundry is one of those things…in Mewat I met these lovely ladies doing laundry like my grandmother did when she was a young girl..we’re talking 1920 in Sweden…it’s difficult to comprehend that this is how the bigger…

Street life in Gurgaon

today on my way home from work I stopped and clicked some pictures of the street life.it’s always vibrant and filled with colour I didn’t notice the guy inside the estate hut until I ha… Source: Street life in Gurgaon

A mustard field filled with beauty.

today I had the most wonderful encounter in a mustard field in a village in the rural areas of Gurgaon. It’s harvest time so they where out cutting the mustard by hand with their reapers̷… Source: A mustard field filled with beauty.

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…