Obey Traffic Rules. Words of advice that not many take to heart here.
The Indian Museum was full of weird artifacts, lots of taxidermy and bones, malformed preserved fetuses, and other fun stuff.
Bananas! This fruit market had more bananas and oranges than you thought existed in this world.
Sleeping cows, on the street.
A miniature tailor shop! All the stores are miniature here, tucked into little holes in the wall, and often split level so that one person is selling from the upper half and one squatted underneath.
Busy busy streets of Kolkata. Some use carts, some use trucks, and some just stick their goods on top of their heads. Sidenote - I got my foot run over by a bicycle cart! Luckily no goods on board, so I'm just fine. Lesson learned: look both ways before stepping off the sidewalk here.
Goat on the street.
Street-side kitchen. Yum.
Sarah and a gaggle of men staring at her. We are quite the hit here in Kolkata - often when walking down the street we are stopped to shake hands, and every move we make is most certainly being watched (and often laughed at) by a local. Celebrities!
Fruit market craziness.
Bathtime on the streets. Many people wash using the old-fashioned hand pumps on the streets here.
Our feast this afternoon. We also bought one for the sweet man and his wife and daughter who 'just needed a little help getting by'.
Fresh orange juice hand cranked.
We visited the Mother Teresa house and tomb. She was one impressive lady.
Hand-pulled rickshaws. We haven't had the heart yet to have one of these poor tough guys run us around the city.
Chai tea in little ceramic 'mud' cups - the caffeine of choice on the streets. They only use each cup once.
We are headed to Darjeeling soon, and can't wait to escape the heat (we haven't stopped sweating since we arrived here) and enjoy the cool mountains. Until soon!
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