Fishing boat on the beach just down from Cherai Beach
Hill Palace
Munnar market
Munnar Market
Munnar flower market
Indian traffic
On the way up to the first summit - Marlbei Hills
On the way down from the Marlbei hills
Munnar Dam
On the way back to our hotel in Munnar - HDR
River crossing
Mother cow on the first day's walk
Fields as we start the climb
Into the tea
More tea
Panoramic tea
Dinner!
Heading up towards 2nd highest peak
Looking out over the hills
Looking down onto the tea, and Munnar
On the 2nd highest peak in Southern India - Misapouli
Butterfly on Misapouli
Butterfly
The hikers
Experimental night light writing
Campfire
Night sky
Night sky and camp
Panorama on route from camp to Top station
Views on walk to Top Station
Clouds rolling in
Children and hikers meet
The children get their sweeties
Long tailed shrike
Tea pickers
Walking down through the tea plantations
Walking up through the tea plantations
Panoramic view from Top station
Walking down from Top Station through the lemon grass
Me
The hikers stop for a break
HDR shot of tree at dusk above Central Station camp
Another HDR shot above Central Station
HDR Panorama above central station
The same tree at Central station - but this time in the morning
Washing coffee in a village on the way down from Central station
Bird spotting
Coffee beans drying in the sun
Some sort of tree squirrel
Not so impressed...
Children playing
Toothy grin
Taking a break
Tea time!
Hmm. That Tea's good!
Making Parothas
Cooking the fish curry
Night sky from the camp with car trails - 15 min exposure
Indian Roller in flight
Black Drongo - probably the only bird I can recognize
Black shouldered Kite
The crew!
On-street tailoring
Goods transportation with attitude
Ride to the temple in Maduri
Free coin operated elephant
Still riding towards the temple, but holding on tight
Passing cow at high speed
HDR shot leaving the temple
Shops in the Meenakshi Temple
HDR shot of elephant in Meenakshi Temple
One of the towers of the Meenakshi temple
Looking over the golden lotus pool
Original, unrestored roof painting
Ganesh
Painted ceiling in Meenakshi temple
More from the Meenakshi Temple
Waiting in the temple
Inner temple
Tower from the outside
Panoramic shot of the temple
Sunset over the temple
Temple and erm thinggy
Making the deal!
Door construction factory
Flower market
Wedding guests
Brick making
Creating the bricks
Baking the bricks
Sun drying bricks before baking
Inside a kiln before it is loaded
Washing
Removing peppercorns from the branches - no smelly feet allowed
In the spice garden
Coca bean I think
Mace and Nutmeg
Spider spotted in the spice garden
Curry leaves on a curry tree?
Katakhali dance
Periyar Tiger Reserve
Monkey
Small Minivet
White Bellied Treepie
2x White Bellied Treepie
Construction
Fat monkey
Who stole my cheeze monkey
Aah - you did!
Mother and baby
Keeping a watchful eye
Motherly concern
Rodney's bread
White Throated Kingfisher
Wild boar
Purple Heron
Grey Heron
Indian Cormorants
Osprey
Indian Cormorant
Deer
Indian Cormorants on their nest
Otter
Water Buffalo / Deer
Indian Cormorant + White Browed Wagtail
White throated Kingfisher
Common kingfisher and Pied kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Cattlemarket
Keralan Houseboat
Doing the washing up in the Keralan backwaters
Getting around
Canoe
Rodney relaxing
Kerala houseboat
River traffic
Keralan house boat
Bridge building
Schoolboys
School bus
European bee-eater
Keralan houseboat
Brahminy Kite
Brahminy Kite fishing
Backwaters
House crows on a house boat
Darter
Egrets
Terns
Daliy life at the bus stop
Coconuts?
Life passes by
We're stranded!
Bright orange
Close to the hotel
Calm waters
Fishing
Black kite?
Indian Pond Heron
Indian Pond Heron ?
Trees
Making house panels
Transporting mud from the backwaters to build up the islands
Ropemaking
Kids proud of their new ball at the rope makers
Kids in the village
The Cricketers
rope making
Dinner at the SeaFood hit
Seafood Hut in Cochin, also serving Chineese and Continantal
Stall
Chinese fishing nets
Fish from the fishing nets
Fish market
St Francis Church
St Francis church
St Francis Church, and the wafters for ventillation
Snake Charmer
Snake Charmer with Cobra
Snake Charmer with 2 Cobras
Mattancherry Palace
