...and Simon Singh gave a colourful talk about the big bang.
...much preferable to the evening entertainment provided by the Festival (2)
are mixed with the harder realities
At the other extreme of society, the Maharajah's Palace...
On a public holiday, peacefulness was transitory...
....and again, but with an added human element.
The modern Cultural Centre had similarly clean lines.
Crowds flock to the modern Birla temple at sunset.
Upmarket street food and the Water Palace by day...
LOOKING (8) Looking ahead
Looking hidden
Looking shadowy
Looking up
Looking on
Looking down
too nervous to look down?
A two week textile and tribes tour in Gujarat, the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi. Out of respect, the state is both dry and vegetarian.
Gujarat is one of the less well-visited states by tourists, and even on the first day in the capital, Ahmedabad, it was evident that the locals were as interested in looking at us as we were at them
Others go about their daily routines (4 photos)
Praying peacefully in the courtyard below.
His wife and daughter wash chickpeas in the stream opposite
...here seen from the road below
A mongoose peers out by the roadside
Two days to find?!
