Traveling in India is still fraught with uncertainties. At the train station in Agra, I found my 7:35 train to Jaipur was now scheduled to leave at 5:35! What, it already left two hours early?? Oh no, someone explained, 5:35 tomorrow morning! I hired a car instead. With government checkpoints at each state border tho, & pedestrians & sacred cows ambling across the highway, the 228km drive to Jaipur took 5 hours.
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| This imposing Art Deco church is the fifth largest in the world. Basiliek van Koekelberg, Brussels, 2011 |
This is the kind of decorative detail nobody makes anymore & our world is the poorer for it. Louizalaan 224, Brussels, 2011 |
I took this shot from Lāl Qila (the Red Fort) despite the mist. You normally never see this famous monument from the rear.
Taj Mahal, Agra, 2011 |
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| Each window is shaded by delicately carved stone latticework that affords privacy but lets in the cooling breeze.
Hawa Mahal, the "Wind Palace", |
Something out of Ali Baba & the forty thieves, right? Actually... the entrance to a parking lot. Jaipur, 2011 |
A castle somewhere in Europe? Wrong again. Would you believe... a hospital?
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, 2011 |