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Temples and bathing Ghats Geeta Bhawan, one of the Ashrams, where people stay, meditate and pray. Bathing area in front of Geeta Bhawan Another Ashram Temple A paragraph from Geeta Pricelist of sweets in one shop Ganesh Drinking water dispenser. These are provided every where by...

Vendors and the market scenes Making "Ladoos" - sweets Dried fruit Sweets displayed in cabinet Milk man delivering packaged milk products Trinckets Bangles Bead necklaces Patties

The streets Most of the streets are quite narrow, and only scooters and motorcycles can traverse them.

Where there are people, there are bound to be dogs. A few shots of the street dogs, enjoying themselves

Continuing - Monkeys. The hills are full of monkeys, and they can be quite aggressive. I have seen them snatching food, mobiles and other "goodies' from unwary ttravellers. Even the vendors are not immune to their antics. In the tree On the street enjoying a banana just pinched from the...

Continuing - Cows on the streets The cows small hill breed and quite tame. They will mostly ignore you and go about their business, but if you try to feed them, then they will swarm all around you, nudge and shove and make life difficult.

I took around 500 pictures during three days of the trip, and have been at it since early morning. I will end today with a few shots of the sun setting over the Ganga river. Rising sun on our way from Delhi From the eastern Bank of Ganga at Swargashram

Many older ashrams are situated on the eastern bank of the river Ganga. The Badrinath highway, lifeline of the hills is on the western side of the river. Hence this side was quiet as it was a long detour from the main highway. A road across the Ganga Barrage through the Rajaji National Park has...

An election rally en route delayed us for at least one hour

As long as I can have a toe hold it will do

Last week end my inlaws an I traveled from Delhi to Rishikesh. Rishikesh is where the river Ganga (Ganges) emerges from the mountains and enters the plains. Rishikesh and downstream Haridwar have been places of pilgrimage for thousands of years. There are a lot of Ashrams where the Sadhus live...

Petunia

Gulmohar (Delonix Regia) tree in full bloom

and here is one with my kit lense

Today I managed to get close to a butterfly. Here are a few shots with the 35mm F1.8 DX cropped cropped cropped cropped cropped Full frame

Close ups of Hollyhock flower

I have both. Got the newer 18-55 with the D3300 and bought a new 35mm F1.8 DX. The image quality of the prime is better, but not by all that much. You have to know how to get the sharpness and contrast before you can see the difference. Where the prime will shine is in its F1.8 aperture. You can...

Flowers galore

Some more Phlox

Got these pigeons in one frame. Showing them at 100% crop.