Today is the day of the Dussera festival when most people don't go to work and the town was thronged with people dressed in their finery. It's a really colourful, noisy event and everywhere I went with my camera I had people wanting me to take their photos. After my rude awakening of the morning and clean-up exercise I decided to catch up with some emails and do a bit of work. Then the electricity went off, followed by my modem and mobile phone. When my battery was down to the last 10 minutes I decided to give up and go for a walk. That's when the heavens opened with a cyclone storm. I got wet. But it didn't really matter as it was warm and I took some photos on the way round a rural road that took me round a big curve and back into the town or Koraput.
View across some of the Koraput hills near the Kolab reservoir, part of the Machkund Dam series of reservoirs
I need to learn to carry things on my head like this
More than usually colourful Koraput market place
A tribal family
One of the dozens of tribal stalls with the produce beautifully presented and laid out
Kids jostling for attention
And some more
This cow obviously fancied a change from rotten cabbage
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What fascinating photos. I'm getting a far better sense of Koraput looking at them. The colour and the produce look wonderful. Is that a dog emerging from a drain by the produce stall?
ReplyDeleteWas it raining when you took the picture of the tribal family; it has a wonderful quality to the light which make it a magical photo.
I'm so looking forward to coming to see you.
I've just spent 20 minutes or so showing your blog pictures to A & K (like you they don't have Broadband) who also thought they were fascinating.
Yes, it is a dog in the drain, emerging after a whack on the back from the woman selling the veg. I don't think it was raining in town but there was high humidity which made the air quite misty.
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