India 2008

We traveled to India shortly after the Mumbai Attacks. We celebrated Christmas in Goa, and New Years in Kochi. India is vibrant and the people were warm and friendly. The food was spicy!! Very spicy at times and the population, abundant! Temperature- unseasonably cool at 30 deg C

Cricket- a passionate pass-time

Victoria Train Station Mumbai

Goa

Military Bunkers were installed everywhere

Even on the beach in Goa

Chai! People loved having their pics taken!

Beautiful Hindu Temples

Vibrant Street Life

Gotta love a crowd

And cows roam freely

Very Lively markets

He needs a good chiropractor!!

not like Loblaws!

Now for some relaxing pace on the backwaters of Kerala

On the houseboat- Just us, a captain and a cook- not Captain Cook

Kerala Backwaters

Cruising

Ayurvedic Clinic where Hanka and I enjoyed a day of treatments

$New Year\'s Day parade in Kochi$

Then Back to Mumbai

The Taj Hotel- fully repaired! just 2 weeks after the attacks

$Taxi- these are modelled after 1950\'s Fiats$

Air Conditionned taxi- The "Auto-rickshaw"

$Kids ham\'ing it up for me! So Cute$

Colourful Markets- these are used for painting dyes!

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