27 Feb 2012

Kerala, India



Kerala - God (& Lenin's) Own Country

Varkala Beach

Evening promenading

Kali Hibiscus

All aboard on our Houseboat

Backwater canals

Watch out, Sophie's steering

Egrets returning to roost

Backwater Lake Sunset

Chinese fishing nets at Fort Cochi

New friends

Kichaka applies his make-up

Finishing touches

Kichaka tries to seduce Malini during Kathakali performance

24 Feb 2012

Pondicherry, India



French/Tamil street sign

A much needed haircut

Respect women, women is life (well said)

Street Art

Flower market

Garlands, garlands, garlands for sale

Waiting for the train that never comes at an abandoned station



14 Feb 2012

Myanmar (Burma)



Baby and granny on Inle Lake

Some of the vivid orange blossom found on our cycles

Inle lake at 6:30am

Early morning  fisherman

Giving us a demonstration of leg rowing

Bit of bean business

Sophie buys a Shan tribal necklace

Young monks taking a break

Schoolgirl showing us her traditional Burmese makeup 

Floating village

Floating garden

Monk-taught jumping cats perform in their monastery

Sophie on the boat

Our guide for the day

Well-dressed children at the gates to Old Bagan

Big Buddha, little buddha

Bagan plain (1000s of temples and pagodas)

Very old fresco inside a temple

All this food - for 1.50 each!

Bagan at 6am from an abandoned pagoda

Sunrise ballooning overhead

Up, up and away

Downtown in ex-colonial Yangon

Green Goblin

Shwedagon Pagoda - covered in gold leaf

Sunflowers and friends

Life in the Monastery

Jake and Myo, the Arsenal-supporting monk

65m long reclining Buddha