It’s a sign! In Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal
Thamel is the tourist district in Kathmandu and a maze of small streets filled with restaurants, internet cafes and shops selling all kinds of handicrafts. Of course everybody want attention to their...
View ArticleKhumbu Valley kid
One more, just because they look so cute, especially with this old faded Donald Duck T-shirt :-) Related photos: Khumbu Valley Kids, Nepal Nepali Sherpa girl collecting yak dung in Khumbu Valley Three...
View ArticleAconcagua at dawn from Casa de piedra, Argentina
Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside of Asia, with 6962m altitude, and therefore one of the 7 summits. Just inside the border is is fully in Argentina. Shot 6 years ago in the early morning from...
View ArticleFlowermarket in Guatemala
One of my friends is currently back in his home country Guatemala and he wrote me this week that he was shocked by the poverty. It will take more time to overcome a full generation of civil war and...
View ArticleMonte Rosa from Mont Blanc, Alps
When summiting Mt Blanc, we saw the sea of clouds as published earlier. But when looking east, we could see across Italy, towards the Monte Rosa group.The rising sun cast different shades of shadows...
View ArticleLaundry service in Agra, part 1: dirty laundry ferry
This is the first in a series of 5, about the laundry service in Agra, India. Agra is known for the Taj Mahal, but behind the scenes a lot f activities go on like in any society. I was amazed that so...
View ArticleLaundry service in Agra, part 2: cooking the laundry
Part 2 of the Agra laundry service. The clothes get boiled in large kettles with warm water. I am not sure how many degrees it was inside the kettles, but it was already 45 degrees centigrade outside,...
View ArticleLaundry service in Agra, part 3: scrubbing
Part 3 of the Agra Laundry service. This old man is scrubbing the clothes clean on a flat stone. I could not see anybody using any soap, though I assume it must bee needed to get the dust out…...
View ArticleLaundry service in Agra, part 4: rinsing
Part 4 of the Agra laundry service: two youngsters hitting the wet clothes on a flat stone to get the water out, near the bridge and preparing the clothes for drying.Quite a difference from our washing...
View ArticleLaundry service in Agra, part 5: drying
Finally, the clean laundry is drying, strangely enough in the sand…This was part 5 of 5 of the laundry service in Agra, India. Hope you enjoyed a view into the way ordinary things are done in...
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