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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Mar 21, 2014 8:27:50 GMT -8
I'm going to try to post pictures in here from this trip. All I got today though was a terrible picture of myself and the view out of our hotel window. You get one of those. Not pictured: laborers carrying gravel on their heads and crazy little Indian swiftlets.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 21, 2014 16:28:56 GMT -8
It looks like Seattle or anywhere, until you scroll down to the streets. Wow. No wonder it looks dusty everywhere.
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Post by ∆§Indea§∆ on Mar 21, 2014 16:43:02 GMT -8
Yay! Trip photos! <3 It looks 3rd worldy but India also has the highest level of middle class or something like that.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 21, 2014 17:10:06 GMT -8
Poor peeps in the USA (like me) have a living standard comparable to the average Estonian, but with worse access to health care. Poor folks in India like like medieval serfs, apparently. What's up with their middle class? I shouldn't talk about class issues. I get cranky.
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Post by DKender on Mar 21, 2014 18:22:53 GMT -8
Whoa, what a view. Are they actively constructing that building directly across from your window?
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Mar 22, 2014 3:33:43 GMT -8
I assume the people moving the gravel were involved in the construction. Perhaps there was a delay or they are in a lull for some other reason. Apparently that's not stopping the squatters (you can see the laundry hanging on the first floor). Maybe the squatters are on the construction crew.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Mar 22, 2014 10:34:49 GMT -8
Probably no GREAT pictures today, but they probably won't get up until tomorrow evening. Mostly from our apartment/house shopping trip. Missed several buffalo and cow shots, got a couple goat shots out the window of a moving car, one bird that looked kind of cool, and dirty apartments and villas.
The poverty here is appalling as I knew it would be, but it's still a little jarring how immediate the transition is from affluence to abject poverty. You saw the view out our hotel window, just bear in mind that this is a relatively palatial Westin hotel. There are shanty towns in the evening shadow of the headquarters for the largest bank in India (ICICI, iirc). Still, if you look again at the first photo, you will see a TV satellite dish on a residence about the size of a single tactical unit from D&D 3e/Pathfinder.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 22, 2014 14:58:11 GMT -8
World's largest democracy yo. I shall look forward to birds. You don't even have to get good pics. Just ID them and let us know what you saw. That's kinda cool too.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Mar 23, 2014 9:37:41 GMT -8
First, picture from my first international business class flight. Cheers - Legroom for days -
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Mar 23, 2014 9:39:12 GMT -8
Bird related pictures from our first day of house hunting. Unidentified cute bird - "Weaverbird" nest - Domestic geese -
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Mar 23, 2014 9:41:32 GMT -8
Bird pictures from zoo, only free and wild ones included Lesser cormorant, saw lots of these all over town where there is water - Parrots of some sort - Crowned night heron? -
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Mar 23, 2014 9:43:50 GMT -8
Bird pictures from zoo, only free and wild ones included Black drongo? Asian kiel? Haven't had time to look this guy up. They were all over -
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Mar 23, 2014 9:46:28 GMT -8
Bird pictures from zoo, only free and wild ones included Some manner of stork, they had them in captivity, but they are obviously locals - White-throated kingfisher? - Black kite? These guys were all over, but mostly circling WAY over head -
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Mar 23, 2014 9:48:13 GMT -8
Bird pictures from zoo, only free and wild ones included All I got was a silhouette - Huge mess of all manner of birds. Think there's a stork, some egrets, possibly some herons...
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Mar 23, 2014 9:48:41 GMT -8
A red cotton stainer bug -
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