My most recent post about Udaipur featured it’s colorful women. In today’s post I’d like to share with you some of my animal pictures, taken when wandering through Udaipur’s streets. The number of cows, oxen, bulls, donkeys and camels is enormous. There are many dogs as well, but I only show you a tiny, pet puppy, […]
Elefantastic; up close and personal with elephants
Being a huge animal lover AND THUS being against all animal cruelty, I tend to stay far from tourism or attractions that exploit or abuse animals. Unfortunately it is not always clear or visible how the animals are treated. What happens to them when no tourist or spectator is around? In Malaysia we visited an […]
Rajasthan; five days in fifty pictures
We just returned from a five day trip in Rajasthan. This blogpost is the kick-of for a photographic documentary in ten parts about that trip. Today I give you a preview-in-fifty-pictures of this beautiful region. Land of forts and palaces, of mountains and lakes, of heritage and nature. The sarees of the Rajasthani women have […]
Animals in Mumbai, part 2
As I wrote in my first post about animals in this big city: they are everywhere. Cows, bulls, sheep, goats, roosters, dogs and cats….and in some of the lakes even (sweet water) crocs. At first I could not figure out how the relationship was between the Mumbaikars and the animals. Do they see or […]
A variety of animals in a big city
In Mumbai you encounter a lot of everything on the streets; traffic, people, buildings, businesses, dirt and also animals of all sorts and sizes. At the bus stop across the hotel this little goat was nibbling on a leaf: These goats were in front of some shops: This goat was playing with the […]
Puppy-love
Yesterday I ran into a very funny puppy (and his owner) in our building. The owner is called Celeste and Singaporean from origin, but has just lived in Dubai for three years. The dog, named Cash, is a four and a half month old Golden Retriever. Still a puppy, which has a lot to learn, […]