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The star attraction at Kaziranaga National Park: The Indian one horned rhino. The park is said to contain about two thirds of the world...

Heavy metal living root ladder near the mid-sized Khasi village of Pongtung First off, for more information on living root archit...

My friend Roy on a spectacular, never before visited living root bridge near the village of Kongthong, in the heart of a region called t...

Jungle Man John Cena and friend cling to roots with the longest known living root bridge in the background First, for more info o...

The Great Bridge of Kudeng Rim...photos don't do it justice.  This is the first of four posts on the living root architectur...

A corridor in Khirki Masjid, one of the most atmospheric historical places in Delhi, and also one of the city's most under appreciat...

The spectacular chandeliers of the Kilawat Mubarak, the durbar hall of the Chowmahalla palace, along with the royal seat of the Nizams o...

A common sight in Dhaka In May, 2015, I traveled across Bangladesh, crossing the border from West Bengal and reentering Indian via D...

The largely forgotten tomb of Roshanara, world's away from the better known parts of Delhi. For the second half of this list,...

Looking out through the entrance of the Guda Mandap, or Sanctum Sanctorum, of the Modhera Sun Temple. The Sun Temple of Modhera is, ...

Rani ki vav, arguably the world's most impressive stepwell.  Simply put, Rani ki vav, or "The Queen's Stepwell," i...

The top of the fantastic tomb of Itimad-ud-Daulah, in the very first direct sunlight of the day. Along the east bank of the Yamuna, ...

A late 19th or early 20th century courtyard, somewhere deep in Agra's fascinating old city. As odd as it may sound, there is a v...

Hot action and glamour. Bizarre poster for some American Z grade western that was being shown dubbed into Hindi at local cinema halls in...

Truly excellent carvings on the side of one of the false gateways to the tomb of the Mughal emperor Akbar. The carvings say a great ...

The rather splendid late Mughal style tomb of John Hessing, the most prominent mausoleum in Agra's 460 year old Roman Catholic cemet...

Red sandstone carvings in the Jehangiri Mahal of Agra Fort.  Because of its proximity to the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort is the second most...

The Taj at dawn. Now there's a picture I bet you've never seen before. Actually, this is maybe the world's single most ...

Crossing the Nongthymmai living root root bridge, the longest of all (known) living root bridges, in the monsoon season of 2011. Believe...

Tyndrong Bridge  [Note: All of the spellings of Khasi villages below are merely my idea of how they should be spelled...I don't ...

A highly decorated prayer niche. Part of the large mosque next to the Qutb Minar in Mehrauli. This part of the complex dates from the ea...

The 15 foot tall monolithic Kadalekalu Ganesha statue, in a shrine behind Hemakuta Hill. Carved out of a single granite boulder, this is...

Coracle crossing the Tungabhadra River, late in the afternoon. Coracles have been a means of conveyance in the Hampi area since prehisto...

A beautiful maiden with a creeper, on one of the door jams in Vijayanagara's ruined Krishna Temple.  Combining an entire city...

In a chamber under the Feroz Shah Kotla Mosque.  The ruins of Firozabad, the fifth city of Delhi, stand tucked away next to a giant ...

Nataraja, in the Ravana Phadi cave temple in Aihole, flanked by Ganesh. Nataraja is the form of Shiva whose dance of cosmic destruction ...

Frieze of Varaha, the boar-headed incarnation of Vishnu, holding his consort Bhudevi in one of the cave temples of Badami. The story beh...

The sixteenth century Rajon ki Baoli, or Well of the Masons. Built in the final years of the Delhi Sultanate, it's  Delhi's most...

My brother crosses the Nongthymmai Living Root Bridge, the longest of all (known) living root bridges, and arguably the most spectacular,...

Arches and Pillars in Khirki Masjid, one of the most unusual and atmospheric buildings in Delhi. Constructed during the reign of Firoze ...

The Sultan Ghari, Delhi's first Islamic tomb, and one of it's most obscure monuments. It was built in 1231 for one of the sons o...

The evil countenance of Adilabad Qila, as far as I can tell Delhi's least visited fort. Tughlaqabad, the former stronghold of th...

Flowers in the jungle of the Northern Ridge Hiya Folks...and now for my next bloglett...

Inside Agrasen Ki Baoli, a medieval step-well right in the middle of Delhi. Baoli is the usual word for step-well. Howdy Folks So...

The prayer niche, or Mihrab, of Bijapur's Jama Masjid. Dating from the first half of the sixteenth century, the Jama Masjid was buil...

A window in the tomb of Mahmud Shah Bahmani, in the necropolis of the Bahmani sultans. This is in the village of Ashtur, a few kilometer...

A tree, the canyon wall, and jungle, in hazy sunlight. This was taken on my way back up the endless stairs. The next day I woke up t...

Nohkalikai Falls, one of Meghalaya's most famous sights, along with six subsidiary falls...I didn't know I would be seeing...

Abandoned Root Bridge over the Simtung River. This was one of the highlights of my trip into the Khasi Hills. Despite its derelict appea...

The famous Umshiang Double Decker Root Bridge in Nongriat Village. The only root bridge with two spans (I suppose to allow for two-way t...

My umbrella, at the entrance to a small, almost certainly illegal, coal mine. On the way to the Nohkalikai Falls view point, about 5kms ...

The Objective: The Nongthymmai living root bridge, at somewhere in the vicinity of 110 feet in length,  the longest (known) living root ...

A particularly surreal patch of the American Southwest: One of the many caves in the vicinity of the Joint Trail, in the Needles Distric...

A view looking northeast, from one of the first viewpoints along the White Rim Road in Utah's Canyonlands National Park. The river i...

The Corona Arch, west of Moab, along the Potash Road, which for a few miles is paved and runs along the north bank of the Colorado River...

The view from Zabriskie Point, one of the iconic vistas of Death Valley National Park, just after dawn. So, this is going to be...

The classic Lone Pine view, from the appropriately named Movie Road. Looking due west, over the Alabama Hills, directly towards Lone Pin...

View over Amber from Jaigarh Fort Hey there. So, I was looking over some of my posts from the past, and I saw that I had this one here ...

Figurehead at the front of an old (19th century) Ao Naga log drum in the village of Ungma, the Ao tribe's largest settlement. Log dr...

The cross over hazy Nagaland. On the peak of Mt. Japfu (10000 ft), the second highest in Nagaland, after Mt. Saramati in Tuensang distri...