Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Last day in the Thar



Breakfast

Goofing around







The ruins below Khaba fort

Restored temple

Unrestored Shiva lingum

Drystone wall







At the Oasis





Back to Jaisalmer

View from above

Day 4



J and Baby Camel



The other baby

More kids, Malu's niece among them

Tengo Chali and Lucky chowing down on the food we picked up in the village. What they didn't eat they had to carry.

Crop circle?

dernières lueurs du jour



Sunday, 28 December 2014

Day 3




Breakfast

The desert blooms


Puppies



Camel topiary

Day 2



Watering hole. We stopped for water and food for the camels






Lucky



Sunset


Last light



Preparing dinner

Camel Safari in the Thar Desert. Day 1



The dawn breaks

Starting point


Preparing lunch

The shadows have grown long

Boys in the sand


Night in the Dunes. Spectators vs. spectacle

Jaisalmer


Rooftop view of the hill fort 


Inside the ramparts

Laundry





Dawn in the square

Saturday, 20 December 2014

India, Delhi and Jaipur

Jantar MantarAnimist shrine Allan Stein's modernist take on a Jaali. 
'Muhammad, the prophet and Abu Bakr hid in a cave for three days, a spider's web preventing their being found.'

Sweet potato and lime


Animist shrine 

The ruined city palace through a crack in the gate

Jantar Mantar astrolabe


A hole in the net at Albert Hall 

One of two dreams of Jain's mother before his birth

The second dream

The hammam ceiling at Amber Fort

Amber fort renos

In the hammam

Tourists at the Diwan