This dog followed us around during our tea plantation walk in Munnar. It was a fine-looking dog with a warm disposition. It seemed quite healthy, except for the fact that it was missing its left eye.
This made me think. If you take in a blind dog, does that make you its seeing eye human?
Taken July 7, 2014 in Munnar.
Taken July 7, 2014 in Kochi
On your visit to Kochi (Cochin) you’ll note a different mix of fauna than elsewhere in India. Urban bovines are rare, but roving flocks of goats roam the streets. Also, cats are much more prominent than in doggie-dominant Bangalore. I suspect the latter has to do with the large amounts of seafood that comes ashore here.
Taken on July 20, 2014 at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath in Bangalore
Taken on July 4, 2014 in Kerala
This is the equivalent of a city bus in the Keralan Backwaters. These boats are loaded with people and cruise from pier to pier, picking up and dropping off local passengers. The houseboats give them a wide berth as they tool about much more quickly. However, because they make frequent stops, we were in a leapfrog match up with them in which we would pass them at the dock and then they’d pass us in motion, and so on.
Taken on July 7, 2014 in Kochi (Cochin.)
Centuries before the Nazis hijacked the swastik “twisted cross” emblem, it was part of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist iconography. Throughout South Asia, the symbol generally expresses a wish for well-being (the word “swastik” literally means “well-being” in Sanskrit.) Of course, there are specific religious meanings that vary with the belief system that is utilizing the symbol.
One has to remember this when one is in a Jewish neighborhood in South Asia–such as this one in Kochi–because, otherwise, the prominent swastikas can be disconcerting given the Nazi’s inexplicable expropriation of this symbol.
Taken on July 6, 2014 in Munnar.
Taken on July 6, 2014 in Munnar.
Taken on July 12, 2014 in South Karnataka.
This is a popular riverine hot-spot in South Karnataka.
Taken July 12, 2014 in Chamarajanagara District of Karnataka State in India.
The falls were thin, but flowing, in South Karnataka yesterday. Here are a couple of photos of the Bharachukki Falls in Chamarajanagara District.
Taken on July 4, 2014 in Kerala.
Snakeboats are long, wooden canoes commonly seen in the Keralan backwaters. They race with crews of around 100–two wide and scrunched into tight rows.
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