The Global Nomads recording the sunrise on our arrival day to India. Byron recording audio, Jason filming, while Chris looks on. |
Rico in an auto-rickshaw. |
The streets of Chennai, India. |
Jason, Amy, and Yas on Marina Beach in Chennai which is one of the widest beaches I've ever seen. Marina Beach was hit by the tsunami last year. In India you often see friends of the same sex standing with arms around each other, but it's not considered respectable in that culture for a boy and girl to show PDA, so we didn't let Jason touch us in this picture. |
Rico driving an auto-rickshaw. I would be scared to death to try this in India, but we were just in a parking lot. |
Video of riding in an auto-rickshaw in Chennai, India. |
Tsunami relief huts are quickly being put up along the road between Chennai and Mamallapurum. |
A common sight on the side of the road - an ematiated cow. |
Jason and Amy in Mamallapurum. |
A mommy goat and kid in Mamallapurum. |
Our self-appointed tour guide (who was also a stone carving apprentice in Mamallapurum) and Tony, our self-appointed guide/translator from Chennai in front of a Hindu temple in Mamallapurum. |
Carvings in a Hindu temple carved into the rock in Mamallapurum. |
Semester at Sea students talking with the Dalit nursing students in Kadaluru village. |
The nursing students performed traditional Indian dances for us. This was a candle dance which was complicated by the ceiling fans. |
The bananas in India are very cute and little, and quite yummy and sweet. |
The children were all very anxious to get their pictures taken. The students at the nursing school created this colored rock art for our visit. |
Surrounded by several children in the Dalit village of Kadaluru. |
Molly surrounded by several children in the Dalit village of Kadaluru. |
One of the nursing students dressed up Molly in one of her saris. |
Semester at Sea students and the nursing students who dressed them up in their saris. |
Some of the Kadaluru village kids. |
The Dalit village of Kottaikkadu gave us a huge welcome with a musical parade and dancing around the village. |
Children in Kottaikkadu. |
A traditional horse dance. This guy who did the horse dance seems to be the person who organized the show and teaches all of the dancers. I think he was the same guy I saw dance in another Dalit village 6 years ago. |
A Kottaikkadu village elder in the rice fields. |
Workers in the rice fields in the Kottaikkadu village. |
Kottaikkadu village kids. |
Oxen plowing a rice field. |
A worker in the rice filed in Kottaikkadu village. |
A typical home of a Dalit Kottaikkadu villager. |
Inside one of the grass hut homes in Kottaikkadu village. |