A beautiful city near or in Mumbai

   

   

One of the meetings I had in Mumbai was an hour, two-hours away, where there were beautiful buildings. I wish I had time to walk around, but unfortunately all snapshots had to be taken from the car... Apparently these are world heritage edifices. I must look up the name of the place.. or can someone tell me? 

Cows and bulls and rain and sunset

Indian princesses and princes

Indian wedding - the finale

Sending off the daughter

Indian wedding day #3 - before the wedding

Indian wedding day #2 - making her the bride

Indian wedding day #1 - Mehndi

Cambodian and Indian galore

I brought back so many things from Cambodia and India. I will show just a few of the goodies.

I bought several paintings in India too (I hope they weren't child labor products, as they were so cheap!) and put them in my coffee table.


I especially adored the cosmetics I picked up. The one from Cambodia is called Bodia Nature. These have super nice smell of lemon grass, which was the smell all over the Grand Raffles Hotel where we stayed.


The one from India also has exquisite smell but also has an extremely nice effect. It was a little pricey (equivalent to duty free shop cosmetics) but I was happy to have trusted the shop person who recommended me the face product like crazy. You're supposed to massage this on your face every other night for 20 minutes. I hope it will continue to work...

On the street in India

I wanted to use the title that the Sartorialist always uses... only this is literally just a street between Taj Mahal and Delhi.

It shows pollution and dust at its best, as it is only an hour after the Taj Mahal picture was taken as we were approaching Delhi. I thought it looked quite artistic.

Taj Mahal

People say Taj Mahal is either a little too small or absolutely beautiful. For me it was monumentally hot. While walking towards the main palace, I almost stopped breathing at all - from the heat. My heartbeat and breathing became completely irregular. It was probably the first time I ever walked in 45 degrees of heat.


I am actually only realizing now how beautiful it was. While I was walking there, I was just wondering how Indians stay so calm in this much heat, and how do women manage to dress up so beautifully in such a torturous environment?

While my brain was completely fried, I'm so glad that at least my camera was working properly. The gradation of the white and the near-white is perfection...