Inside Student BlogsAnother ChapterDelhi, Fall 2009
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- Colin pushes open the door of this eerily abandoned jail.
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- These sheets are used for shade in the expanses of rice paddies.
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- This is one of the most visited sites in South India. After a wooden palace burnt down in 1897 a new one was built.
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- This cross-shaped arbor is used for a semi-annual flower show.
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- This rock outcropping in the middle of the city houses a shrine at the peak.
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- This temple is next to the wooden Tipu palace, an awe inspiring palace of intricate woodcarving.
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- This palace is shadowed by its neighbor a few hundred km away in Mysore.
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- The Karnataka bus system is easy to use an cheap; the architecture in the region is incredibly vibrant!
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- This temple is one of two (the other in Belur) that reflect the impeccable Hoysala dynasty stone carving.
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- This is one of thousands of carvings on the temple at Belur.
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- Colin looks up at the stone carvings at Halebid.
My time with IES has passed, but I have decided to stay in India and follow some of my own pursuits for the rest of the year. Here is some of what I have seen since I left Delhi at the end of the semester!
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December 10th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Stunning as always! I really love the clarity of the sheet on the rice paddy and the child on the rock outcropping.