Franz L. Kessler's photos with the biking

Many hilltops are crowned with temples. It started to rain

8:00 AM warming up in a local tea kitchen Tea with sweetened milk is on offer. My woolen coat is soaked.

On of the many local tanks - low-lying areas with ponds, deepened by hand and walled

7:15 am. Discussing the weather with Rajashekar (middle). Rainclouds are all around. No chance to negotiate dirt roads. On the right-hand side my 350 cc R.E bullet.

Dark clouds were gathering. We decided to drive home.

8:00 am. A steady rain. I don't like driving the motorbike in the rain, and particularly on slippery Indian asphalt.

waterfall as seen from the main road to Anshetty (tele lens). It's an area of subtropical forest, with climatic conditions similar to the western Mediterranean.