Photos XXIII; Far Trek: The Emotional Pictures

This lot are mostly rather good, if I do say so myself.
Mind you I have to say that to weasel my way out of such an appalling title don't I? :roll: Well it's another valid Star Trek ripoff and that's all that matters.

In a vague attempt to make everyday objects look interesting, I travelled 5,000 miles to find objects that are everyday to someone and so might actually be worth the time of day to an English blogperson.
I may have relished the excuse to get out of the UK and see the world of course, but really, it's all about ladders. Obviously:

Just amazes me that millions of people don't NEED stainless steel or aluminium ladders from B&Q or WalMart to fix the gutter or paint the ceiling, but can make their own for nothing more than an hour's work with an axe and some coconut-fibre rope. What a terribly boring place it would be if we were all the same.

As we were on the third day, in the morning I believe, we passed through something more akin to `civilisation` (whatever that means) and we saw some roads, worksites and houses, and buildings being constructed along our route before dipping back into the wild and making our way to the top of the valley and that long-sought-after ridge.

A simple road:

A wild chilli bush:

A mountain view:

A twisted tangle of branches:

A lofty tree:

The view across a valley:

These are a few of my favourite things

And then there are these too, of course:

I think that's it for the trek, apart from the Frapuccino...

Ah yes, in Madikeri there was a mosque that looked rather impressive:

Pity I could hear it from my hotel room, but hey. It's not so bad, and I usually wake up about 5 or 6 in the morning anyway :roll:

There was also this clock I noticed, bit of a crazy, over the top arrangement for a civic timepiece, but who am I to argue with Titan Industries of Bangalore? :

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/evilhippy/Worldwide%202/inde4687.jpg

The Frapuccino God was smiling on us this day, evenb if it did make us ill. I recorded earlier the sheer terrible volume of this stuff we consumed, it amounted to something like 5 or 6 pints of iced coffee each - and yes, we both felt extremely ill, it was very silly, yes, we know, we were there!
Got a picture or two though; tell me, would you say these two are feeling the caffeine, at all? :

Hmmmm....

Oh yes just before that (the ordering really is a bit FUBAR'ed) we came through these scenes on our final descent to the Madikeri road, and stopped at a house where a woman was making bedes, the ubiquitous Indian cigarettes that are more like tiny, ultra-cheap cigars as they are rolled from dried leaf matter inside another leaf, rather than paper, and tied off with string.
It is all very interesting to watch, I may have a video somewhere in the future, if Photobucket hasn't eaten it... :

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/evilhippy/Worldwide%202/inde4673.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/evilhippy/Worldwide%202/inde4671.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/evilhippy/Worldwide%202/inde4670.jpg

And that really is it for the trek. So far...

-
-
-

Just a few left now in this album (phew) and here is Fort Kochi, or Cochin, in Kerala:

Big church:

Metalwork deer statue in a park:

And about the only photographic evidence of that first eventful night in the city :

Before that getting drunk with a couple of guys, Vinod and Manoj, really decent guys, this was back at Vinod's flat before going out and offending the cultural and religious sensibilities of an entire nation. It's all about Proper Preperation, I always say :

Ahahahahaha!! Yeah you can stop laughing now, I managed to stand up, didn't I?
Best two out of three, anyway.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/evilhippy/Worldwide%202/inde4003-1.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/evilhippy/Worldwide%202/inde4002-1.jpg

Somewhere in the city, of course, there is a little more culture than a drunk Englishman can conjure out of his bladder in one sitting, so here is a little bit of it, just before my camera lens self-destructed;

The oldest European-built church in India, allegedly:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/evilhippy/Worldwide%202/inde4021-1.jpg