Taken on March 30, 2014 in Madikeri, India
DAILY PHOTO: Horse in Field
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DAILY PHOTO: Padmasambhava Buddhist Vihara
Taken March 29, 2014 at Namdroling Monastery in Bylakuppe.
Namdroling Monastery is the largest teaching center of the Nyingmapa sect of Tibetan Buddhism in the world. It is located in Bylakuppe in southern Karnataka. Bylakuppe is a series of settlements that constitute one of the largest collections of Tibetans in Southern India (about 20,000 Tibetans live here.) This monastery was established by the Penor Rinpoche in 1963, after the Tibetan diaspora of 1959. The original monastery was a small bamboo temple, from that it has grown to a large campus of buildings.
This, the “Golden Temple”, is a must stop visit for travelers in southern Karnataka. For those with interest in Tibetan Buddhism, one may want to arrange a longer stay. Be aware that there are certain permitting requirements for visits longer than day visits.
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DAILY PHOTO: Nandi Hill Reservior Tank
Taken March 23rd at Nandi Hills.
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DAILY PHOTO: Ross Perot Gargoyle Monkey
Taken March 23, 2014 at Nandi Hills
Many say that baby macaques are cute. Those people may not have seen a true infant, hairless and wrinkled, looking–ironically–like an old man.
This one hasn’t even grown to fully look like H. Ross Perot. You see, all young macaques look like H. Ross Perot, and some adult macaques look like Gary Busey.
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DAILY PHOTO: Monkey Love
DAILY PHOTO: Nandi Hills Overlook: With and Without People
Taken on March 23rd at Nandi Hills.
No. I didn’t push them off.
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DAILY PHOTO: Helping Hand or Monkey Bite?: You Decide
Taken on March 24, 2014 at Nandi Hills.
One monkey was hanging off the fascia of Tipu Sultan’s old hunting lodge. The other was either being a helpful monkey–trying to help his brother up–or being a mischievous monkey–trying to make him fall.
You figure out which.
Here’s a photo from moments later.
Still can’t tell?
If you said they were in the middle of a mixed martial arts knock-down-drag-out, you were correct. Here you can see the monkey who had been hanging getting a single-leg take-down on his tormentor.
FYI- For those who think one needs to get all “roided up” for strength building: Note this apparently puny monkey had the upper body strength to pull himself onto a roof while successfully fighting off an attack.
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DAILY PHOTO: V.B. Bakery in VVpuram
Taken March 22, 2014 in Bangalore.
V.B. Bakery is a 60-year-old Bangalore institution located on Food Street (proper name: Old Market Road) in Visveswarapuram (a.k.a. VVpuram.) As you can see from the middle shot, it was thronged on Saturday night.
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DAILY PHOTO: Strangler Fig
Taken in October of 2012 at Angkor.
At Angkor, trees swallow temples, both breaking them up and holding them together, giving us a glimpse of the world after us.
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DAILY PHOTO: Fruity Flower Sculptures
Taken January 26, 2014 at Lal Bagh Gardens.
So, I spent an hour Googling what the correct term was for a “sculpture” made out of flower blossoms. I’m sure there’s some lingo used amongst the Flower & Garden Show crowd (but you must need to know the secret handshake.)
However, after viewing the websites for many flower shows around the world from Philadelphia to Hong Kong, all I was able to learn is that–whatever they are–these examples from the Bangalore Republic Day 2014 Flower Show… well, they aren’t good. I hesitate to say this because someone may come back and say, “You monster, those [whatever they are] were constructed by children with Down Syndrome.”
If that is the case, I stand corrected and must say that those are the finest examples of [whatever they are] that I have ever seen made by children with Down Syndrome. I may also be showing my ignorance of Down Syndrome because perhaps children with Down Syndrome do ikebana like Rain Man counted match sticks–which is to say freakishly well.
The [whatever they are] just seem a little misshapen compared to those from, for example, the Hong Kong Flower Show. If the Hong Kong arrangements are the X-Box 360 version, these are clearly the mid-1980s Atari Pong version–not that there is anything wrong with that.
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