Welcome to our India adventure...we thought we had a pretty good idea what we were getting into...were we ever fooled! We traveled with one of the young teachers that we worked with this winter, Nadia Hanney. We decided to travel on a tour to be on the safe side, so we left Bangkok & headed to Kolcota (Calcutta) then to Delhi, next to Srinagar in northern India. Where we stayed on a houseboat, then camped & trek in the Himalayas. Second week we traveled from Delhi to Agra, to Jaipur and then to Bikaner where we rode camels into the desert & camped over night! We did this second part all by car, so we were able to see India first hand from the road. So grab a cup of something and take your time looking through our pictures...I tried not to miss anything!!

This is the international airport in Kolkata ... should have been some type of indiction what we were going to up against!!

Poor Lawrie is trying to hold his place in line, 4 different people butted in ahead of him...not a happy traveler!!

Flying over the Himalayas, quite a sight!

Water taxi on Dal Lake in Srinagar, in northern India.

Floating 7-11

Here we are at the Dandoo Palace...our houseboat for a few nights...there are around 300 of these houseboats on Dal Lake.

Here is our room on the house boat, lots of smelly blankets kept us warm!

They haul the seaweed up from the bottomof the lake & use it for ferilizer...what a job!

These are the boats we traveled across the lake in.

India's tuk tuk

Such old buildings, dating back 200 years...bet they can't get fire insurance!

Kids loved to have thier pictures taken!

Men too...

Our first cow sighting...little did we know!!

Old Srinagar

Traveling chicken sales man!

What's cooking?

Check out the feet!

Inside a mosque, one of the oldest in the area holds some 20,000 people inside. Each pillar (600) is a tree trunk...no photos allowed...oops!!

Cashmire carpets...how could we resist...but we did!!

This was the jewelers house...unfortunatly it was at the beginning of our trip & we didn't know what to expect...should have bought more!!

The goods!

Bridge over troubled waters!!

Beautiful scenery on Dal Lake