threadfairy: Street scenes

One of the things that constantly amazed me throughout our trip was the variety and amount of items carried through the streets.

Gas canisters were frequently just balanced on the back of bikes and often four or five were carried at a time

We saw fresh milk from the farms arriving by cart, electrical goods being carried by rickshaw and masses of fabric traveling by lorry, bike, cart etc

People were carried in buses, tuc tuc's, on lorries and resting on top of cargo

The strangest was a pig on the back of a bike

As we walked through the narrow streets we saw lots of activities going on at the side of the road. A barbers, a man making metal dishes and a man mending a leather jacket whilst his customer waited.

This man is pressing some suit trousers that he has just made. The middle picture shows a typing school where you can learn to touch type and also to use a computer. Whilst on the right he is sharpening a knife.

The man was in a village making unglazed cups that are used once and thrown away. The middle picture shows the type of brush used by everyone to sweep clean their own areas. The right hand picture shows people stringing together flowers to make garlands.

We saw lots of animals on the streets. Camels, in particular, were seen a lot in Rajasthan.

We didn't see many elephants except for the elephant jam at Amber Fort in Jaipur. We also went to the elephant village where all the elephants return after finishing work at 11.30 am. Everywhere we went there were loose cows, even on the main roads in the big cities - they have right of way.

The left picture below show the amazing electrical system in Old Delhi and the right one shows bamboo scaffolding on a new building in Jaipur.

There were so many interesting things for sale, I thought I would just give you a taste: mattresses (quilts) filled with raw cotton; ceramic pots; colourful puppets;