This is another preliminary page. It was started 17 March, when the first "en route to 'proper' home" page was closed to new photos. Photos may (or may not) appear here for an uncertain time period, en route to "proper" place in trip report. Sequence just a random jumble, I fear.
I would like to stress that these photos do not result in a balanced "picture of India". They perhaps dwell on some of the least advantaged people in the nation. I was not often in the "other India", where money is more abundant, and when I was, picture taking was not convenient. Sadly, the pictures also exaggerate the amount of wild places left in the subcontinent.
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Left: Another view of Wildflower Hall, Shimla
Left: Seen from boat, on the last leg of a long day's travel, 25 Feb. Boat trip up an arm of a resevoir to the Denwa Backwater Escape was delightful.
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Corruption comes in many forms. Note that legislators don't have to pay the toll to use the road. And that their execption (unreasonable, in my view) is given preference in the listing to fire engines and ambulances. This being India, no doubt the latter, even en route to a fire, or with a critical casualty, still have to stop and do paperwork in triplicate. Lovely place that gets lots of things right? Absolutely. Perfect? Not yet.
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(Below-) Crane? Who needs a crane? We can borrow the farmer's tractor, if we have a heavy lift. (Tractor in lower left of image... with trailer full of dirt.)
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Nothing to do with trip or Tropical Ice... but saw this on back of tee-shirt of another tiger-tourist in one of the game parks. What does it say??? Nuclear physics, I think. Something about a hydrogen atom gaining a neutron? Under going fusion? Call for fusion energy to "solve" the energy crisis? (That, to me, is like finding a new source of chocolate to "solve" someone's obesity crisis, but that's a different story! (Oh.. that phrase reminds me: Read Kipling's Tales From the Hills, if only the first three stories. Was Kipling writing about himself when he wrote of the Englishman who went into the local community in disguise, and passed as a local?
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