Today our photography has rather a different focus – primarily people. We had a late start to the day, as Major wasn’t coming to collect us until 9.30. We realized afterwards that we could have had a wander around Orchha village beforehand, but as it was, it was nice to have a bit of a…
Category: friends and family
There’s been a recurring theme to the last few days, and it was repeated today – forts! Spectacular as they are, they are beginning to blend a little into one, and when we sat down at the end of today, we had a hard time remembering anything at all about the first fort of the…
We left our palatial residence in Bharatpur this morning, for the short ride onwards to Agra, home of the Taj Mahal. Along the way I practiced some car photography, trying to increase my collection of ‘people on scooters’ photos. This one is a clear winner, with the most folk we’ve seen on a single scooter……
This morning we visited the Keoladeo nature reserve. The original schedule included a rickshaw ride, but we decided that we preferred to travel with a little more independence, all the better for photography, and rented 3 bikes. After some consideration we also hired a guide, which turned out to be a great decision, as he…
We left the hustle and bustle of Jaipur this morning, to head for Bharatpur and the nearby Koladeo national park. After the first long journey we had, this ride was a bit of a let down, as we travelled the whole way along a dual carriageway. That being said, no dual carriageway as we know…
After a quick, and rather uninspiring breakfast, we were picked up at 8am to visit the Amber Fort. Whilst we were in the car, our guide for the day explained to us about the elephant ride at the fort, and told us that we had to make a choice of elephant type – young and…
After breakfast, and the obligatory comment in the visitors book, we spent a little while in the gardens of the lodge photographing the birdlife, before being picked up by our driver for the journey to Jaipur. The journey took about 4 hours, and gave us a close up view into both Indian life, and Indian…
392 square kilometres and 38 tigers. Needless to say, we didn’t manage to meet up with the tigers! We had an early start this morning, waking up at 5.30, after a warm and muggy night. For all that we didn’t find any tigers, it was very refreshing to sit in the jeep in the refreshing…
After all the stress of the last couple weeks, and the uncertainty whether Rupert would be well enough for me to travel, I was very relieved to meet up with Marcel and Arie at Schiphol yesterday morning, after staying up all night to write an assignment for my Infectious Diseases course. After stocking up on…
People always told me that the Dutch set off fireworks at New Year’s. Until last year, when I spent my first New Year’s here, I didn’t really appreciate what they meant. You see, in England, when people let off fireworks at New Year’s there’s maybe one or two fireworks set off somewhere in the distance,…