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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...

Postcard shot of Mt. Kanchenjunga (8586 m, 28,169 ft), the world's third tallest mountain, at about six in the morning. In the pictur...

My small blue home in the high Alpine meadow of Dzongri, with about 45 minutes to go before bad weather moved in. This was taken on a b...

OK, so, again, I really don't have much time, so, I'm just going to try and provide a list of the highlights of the last few days. ...

So, happy Valentine's Day. I'm in Nagaland. Hence: Valentine's Day in Nagaland. Where I am, the city of Khohima, was wh...

Hi folks. Right now I'm in the town Kamalabari, on Majuli Island, in the middle the river Brahmaputra, in upper Assam. I've bee...

Hey everybody. So, right now I happen to be in the city of Jorhat in the Eastern part of the Indian state of Assam. Tomorrow I'm tak...

Gateway, located in one of the courtyards of the Jaipur city Palace. It's called the Green Gate, and is meant to represent the season...

Namaste everybody. So, right now I'm using a computer at an internet cafe in Pahar Ganj, can't really post pictures. I was supp...

Rainbow, looking east from Flag Hill Namaste everybody. So this is the sixth week of my studies at the Landour Language school. I onl...

Typical weather conditions over Mussoorie Namaste all. So, I would'nt say there's been any really big news here. Hindi conti...

Dawn view from Landour Hi folks. So, right now I'm back in Delhi (in crusty old Pahar Ganj, in fact, the ultimate Hippy Hideout)...