India

Munnar has plenty of water and damns for irrigation of tea plantations. They are absolutely stunning...if you look past the litter. One thing I could not get over was the…

from on high, the agricultural valleys of Munnar look like a living patchwork quilt

Kochi became the first European colony in India when the Portuguese developed it as a harbor in the 1500's - the Dutch assumed control in the 1600's and later swapped…

these fisherman are real characters - this guy is showing off what has to be the biggest shrimp I've ever seen. Most of this daily catch gets sold to local…

here's what a stall looks like. After all the fish is sold, the fisherman hang out with each other at these makeshift coffee spots to swap tales about the one…

These were introduced by Chinese traders in the 13th century and are still in use today. Several are lined up along Fort Kochi Beach with nets suspended in mid air…

there are two main areas to Kochi - the old Fort Kochi area where European colonialism is still evident with churches and old homes and the area known as Mattancherry.…

after carpets are washed, they are laid out on grass to dry to make a pretty, colorful patchwork quilt. This place was a trip - in addition to several stalls…

over an acre of lines with clothes flapping in the wind - making it the largest "clothes dryer" in the world.

there were about 20 stalls in this laundry house- each with a person inside washing piles of clothes that had been dropped off - an Indian style dry cleaners!