India December 2012

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December 10th 2012

Published: January 26th 2013

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Kathy & Bernie Dougherty

Kathy Bernie

February 2020. We are still in Tucson, Arizona, well, often anyway. We continue our wanderings and enjoying our adventures. We haven't lived outside the US in awhile, but have lived in: Guatemala, Ecuador, the Netherlands (twice), Germany (twice) and South Africa. We have now traveled to well over 100 countries, but that doesn't mean we plan on stopping any time soon. ... full info

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Street Scene

Urban or rural, the roaming pigs did a lot of the cleaning. These guys were obviously exhausted from all the garbage they cleaned up. Between dogs, pigs and cows, all the bio-garbage was eaten. Maybe that is why there were so few flies in an environment that looked like fly heaven?

Rural Scene

Bullocks and cows roamed everywhere. We were told that people actually owned them - they were not stray. In the evenings they went back to their homes.

Street Scene

Our driver told us that this school girl was not covered because of any religious reason, but to protect her skin from sun and pollution

Street Scene

In the rural parts of Rajasthan we saw many, many camel-driven carts and camel drivers with their herds

Street Scene

Transportation was almost always packed. The couple in the foreground are waiting for such a jeep/van

Road Rules

Rules: Do NOT stay in your lane; ride the middle line. Cars behind must follow instructions. Keep Distance: that wasn't going to happen; Blow Horn: constantly; Wait for Side: the front vehicle would go one way or the other when he could without hitting someone, and then you went around him at that time

Indian Treepie

Related to the magpie we are familiar with, this bird was characteristically social, NOT shy and very vocal

White-fronted Kingfisher

We saw this species in many places, including Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary

Street Scene

Camel-drawn carts were a frequent sight throughout India

The Dadhikar Ft. Hotel, Alwar

This photo was taken from their website as I never got a shot of the entire fort

Dadhikar Ft. Hotel, Alwar

For our visit to Sariska Tiger Preserve, we stayed here

Dadhikar Ft., Alwar

Bougainvillea surrounded doorway - every doorway, hall and stairway was gorgeous

Dadhikar Ft. Hotel, Alwar

If you went out our bathroom window/door, this is what you'd find - the roof-top dining area

Dadhikar Ft. Hotel, Alwar

Bathroom balcony access. We had a regular balcony off the front with a beautiful view over the valley, but we found this entrance a hoot. Turns out that using that door was more convenient to the dining room, etc.

Mohan, Our Driver

We spent two weeks with this pleasant, competent, friendly and professional young man. We didn't completely realize our luck with Mohan until later when we had the Driver from Hell, more on that in the Chandigarh Wedding blog

Taj Mahal

We entered thru the east gate at sunrise with lots of other tourists - the Taj looked magical in the mist

Sariska Tiger Preserve

Langor, look at the length of that tail!

Sariska Tiger Preserve

Langor female & baby

Ranthambhore Tiger Preserve

We didn't see any tigers, but lots of langors like this young one

Ranthambhore Tiger Preserve

Nilgai male

Ranthambhore Tiger Preserve

Nilgai deer, female

26th January 2013

Sue M.
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Have always wanted to travel here, so I had a great keyboard trip through your wonderful pictures and narrative. What a fantatic trip you two had. Hooray Kathy for being adventurous and trying a little opium.

29th January 2013

Mara
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Wow!
These were so great. I was disappointed when I realized I'd come to the end. Thanks for the tour.

29th January 2013

marge
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Thanks B and K for sharing ...Gene and I are off to India end of March so your blog has really gotten me in the mood for opium! marge

29th January 2013

Ali
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Such great photos!
I very much enjoyed clicking through all 117! Thank you.

2nd August 2015

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Taj Mahal
seen many pics of this jewel...but not from this angle. Sensational.

9th February 2016

Newfie Ness
Newfie Ness

Taj Mahal
Beautiful!!

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