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=0=| Our next stop was India. This and the two slides below are street scenes from around New Delhi after we arrived. All of Delhi and, indeed, the parts of India that we visited had a dirty, crowded, cluttered and random environment. On the left below there is a man in fairly typical Indian traditional dress. On the right there was a cow. I had always suspected that the news clips that we saw of cows in traffic and such were rare and news worthy, but we found that they were actually quite common. Also, the car behind the cow was a quite typcial car in India at the time. It seems that just as the Phillipines had standardized on old U.S. military jeeps, India standardized on a pre-WWII English vehicle and that is all that they make. Must make parts and repairs simpler. |
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| This is a street scene with a camel pulling a heavily loaded cart. We were suprised at the number of animals in and around the city. We were also surprised that while cows are respected in the sense that no one would kill or eat them, that does not mean they are not worked and we would often see cows pulling farm equipment, mowing a lawn, or a wagon. Below are a couple of shots of cows out and about the city. Here they are just walking around just outside the entrance to a tourist attraction. In the slide on the right below we imagined the cow thinking perhaps I should go to the 'Quality Beauty Chat' (whatever that is). |
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| On our flight to Thailand we sat next to a man from India and discussed our travel plans. We had scheduled our trip to stop in Bombay (simply because it was closer to half way to Jordon), but he suggested we should visit New Delhi instead as it was much more interesting. He gave us his address in Delhi though we really didn't plan on visiting him. However, we didn't have information about Delhi (as we had planned on visiting Bombay) and how no idea where to do when we arrived at about midnight and we weren't looking for a room until 1AM. None of the hotels we contacted had any rooms that late and so with great fear and trepidation we arrived at his address at 2AM (yikes)! I still can't believe we were so presumptious, but we couldn't think of other options. He was away but his family was kind enough to allow us to stay the night (which was ever so kind) and then sent us off to the Y.M.C.A. the next morning. It was very nice with simple rooms (comparable to our prevoius college dorms) with a restaurant downstairs that served Western food at reasonable prices. This is the door man at the Y.M.C.A.. Throughout our stay there, there had been signs most everywhere asking us to not tip and we had been happy enough to follow their guidance. However, on our way out at 4AM he had asked for a tip and there was a rather heated discussion. At the time it seemed rather bothersome though in hind sight I would imagine we could have handled it more calmly (though it probably was best to follow their policy of no tips). Throughout our previous visits in Asia we had seen many temples and monuments that were impressive, but virtually all of them were related to Buddhism. However, in India most of the impressive buildings were mausoleums. Below are pictures from a smaller mausoleum. On the right is a picture of a cow taking a break from mowing the lawn. We imagined that was an example of being permitted to eat the fruit of your labors as we suspected the cow was given the collected lawn clippings to eat. |
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| These are pictures from a larger mausoleum in red sandstone. Below is another picture of this mausoleum as well as another mausoleum which we presumed as Moslem as it has minarets. The varoius mausoleums were either Hindu or Moslem. |
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| This is another view of the Moslem mausoleum shown above, but from the other side (and with better light). Below are a couple of pictures of another mausoleum, perhaps Hindu. |
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