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Jain rock temple Gwalior
400AD. Madhya Pradesh India. The figures are around 6 meters tall. -
Ladakh: Public inconvenience
Sign at high altitude indicating a rock behind which one is able to pee. -
Chile, Chiloe: A boat by any other name
Titanic by name, but not by nature -
Black tiger snake in the wild.
Highly venomous, deadly. 2 meters long. But beautiful! -
Sati (suttee) wall, Bikaner Fort
Handprints of widowed ranis (queens) who passed through the gate on their journey to immolate themselves on their husbands' blazing funeral pyres. -
Khur. Indian Wild Ass
Only 3800 still exist (equus hemionus khur) of this ancient breed, in the Little Rann of Kutch desert in Gujarat, India.They are endangered, and this is the only gene pool left . -
Sati hand Bikaner Fort gate
Historically, after a maharaja died in Indiia, his widows would throw themselves alive on his funeral pyre. This was known as "sati". On their way to die, they left their handprint at the gates of the palace.. -
Nawalgarh India...running the bulls.
This huge brute came behind me and head butted me aggressively out of its way as I was photographing this wonderful painted building(haveli). Such animals are common wandering the streets of towns in India. -
Lama dance: killing earthly desire
Phyang Gompa(monastery), Ladakh. North India -
See the cow? Ou est la vache?
Cow lying in tunnel on narrow road above 500meter drop into Sutlej Gorge. India
