India 2009 - 10

I spent two months traveling solo around south India in December 08 and January 09. These are my photos taken in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and Mumbai.

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Karnataka State:

Bylakuppe Buddhist temple

Boy washing in a village outside Hampi

Pedestrian traffic in Kakabbe village

Creaking bamboo in Gallibedu village

View out of train window

Kids in Kakabbe village







Tamil Nadu State:

Raining outside Ooty

This tea seller spoke no English but told a translator that I sounded like a news reader. Maybe I should change career.

Hitching a lift in a truck






Kerala state:

Backwaters near Allepey

Tea plantations, Munnar







Goa state:

Ashvem beach, away from the crowds

A chai wallah selling tea through my train window





Mumbai:

Sunset at Nariman Point



If you would like to buy poster prints of any of my photos, please contact me. These uploads have been scaled down hugely, but their original quality allows them to be printed very large. Prices depend on size, but as a guide, an A3 poster is approximately £15, or an A3 photograph is approximately £5. 








I walked on the other path, Gallibedu

Roadside coconut carving

Buddhist Bylakuppe

Me washing Nelly, Dubare Forest Reserve

Gallibedu

A village outside Hampi








This girls family gave me lunch in their home, I found it pretty hard to eat, but she seemed to like it!

View out of a bus window coming into Kodaikanal

Tea picker, Ooty








View out of bus coming into Munar

Tea plantations, Munnar, and for a brief minute, the sun shines!







Ashvem beach sunset

Spice sellers at the Saturday Night Market










Near Malabar Hill, the poshest part of Mumbai



These images were taken with a Canon G9 camera always on manual setting, and edited in Apple's Aperture. 



























































Hampi temples

Gallibedu

View out of a train window

Monk on a motorbike, Bylakuppe

Nelly gets a bath, Dubare Forest Reserve - look at the size of that trunk compared to that dude's legs!









This family belong to an old Tamil tribe, and live in a remote area with no roads to their house. However the government provide a TV (as an education tool) and they have phones. 

Raining, outside Ooty. 

Low visability in Kodaikanal






Tea plantations, Munnar

Tea plantations, Munnar









Shiny Happy Me

Saturday Night Market










Opposite the Taj Hotel, with rooms at $500/night