Photos from India

[ztirffritz]

If anyone is interested, here are some of my photos from my recent trip to India. I haven't tweaked the photos much, so some are still oriented wrong.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ztirffritz/India

[Grateful11]

Nice photos, thanks for sharing them.

[voodoopenguin]

Thank you for letting us see them.

Any more? Stupid question! You probably have a thousand.

[iaJim]

I'm reading "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, and it's interesting to see the people he's talking about so much. Thanks!

[pokari]

Awesome pics....
what is the first one a pic of?
is the third one of the wedding?
is the last one of a village or mansion?

I would like to goto India someday.

pokari

[Grateful11]

What is 52-54 of 500, some sort of temple or what? I like it. Was the chess set for sale or owned by someone?

[ztirffritz]

[quote voodoopenguin]Thank you for letting us see them.

Any more? Stupid question! You probably have a thousand.
Yeah, there are some more. There were some problems uploading them to Picassaweb, but I was tired and a little sick, so I haven't fixed it yet. I'll probably work on it later today...or maybe I'll sleep.

[ztirffritz]

[quote iaJim]I'm reading "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, and it's interesting to see the people he's talking about so much. Thanks!
I spent time in Chennai (aka Madras), Jaipur, Pondicherry (Puducherry), Agra, and Delhi. Chennai was a bit scary to me personally because of how much they were pushing IT studies and technology education. It was the COMPLETE opposite of the U.S. If you graduate with ANY undergraduate degree they will hire you and train you for software/hardware IT support. There were schools for engineering, science, technology, etc everywhere. The education is biased the opposite direction. They encourage people to study science, math, physics, biotech,etc. In the U.S. people are scared and/or discouraged from studying these fields. The U.S. is in for a painful, expensive wakeup call very soon.

[ztirffritz]

[quote pokari]Awesome pics....
what is the first one a pic of?
is the third one of the wedding?
is the last one of a village or mansion?

I would like to goto India someday.

pokari
The first pic is a pic of an ashram. It was an elaborate portion of a Utopian Society that was set up in the early 1900's if memory serves me well.

The third photo is my sis-in-law's wedding, which was the reason that we went.

The last one is a Palace/Fort. The Amber Palace is enormous, but the walls impressed me most. The walls extend 18 km around the city at an average height of 5m tall and about 3-5m thick. They follow the mountainous terrain surrounding Jaipur. There are lookouts strategically posted all the way around the city. Parts of the wall are crumbling, but most is still intact.

[ztirffritz]

[quote Grateful11]What is 52-54 of 500, some sort of temple or what? I like it. Was the chess set for sale or owned by someone?
52-54 are a temple in Chennai. The temple has over 10k statues on it. Very impressive.

The Chess Set is a set that my father-in-law purchased. It is NOT ivory.