Our room in the City Guesthouse, we called it Prison Cell 20...
This is what you get for 5$ a night!
one of the many overloaded "good carriers' along the roads
The National Kite Festival at the beach at Mandvi
even cows need to sunbathe
a little bit of Bollywood on the beach
and naturally there are camels
The view from the Vijay Vilas Palace in Mandvi...
Vijay Vilas Palace
hand-woven shawls on the loom
freshly woven shawls
Kite fest at sunset
Blocks used for hand-printing material
washing the fabrics before block-printing begins
a typical Gujurati thali
amazing handwoven quilts hand-quilted by women in a tiny village along the Pakistani border
The Great Rann of Kutch (salt flats)
Our driver, Raj, though thankfully not our car....
a typical LAT village in the Katch Valley
too bad it's blurry, but such cuties....
they had me pegged, these little ones were selling dolls and i couldn't resist!
puppies!
another typical road scene
a homemade meal
making chappatis
the finished product
