Saturday 19 February 2011

pictures 16th/17th/18th

On my early morning bird walks from the hotel I spent a lot of time sorting out Cuckoo-shrikes and a Grey-breasted Cuckoo and then trying to get close enough to photograph the Green Bee-eaters. Thankfully breakfast was a relaxed affair at 8:30!

The Matrimandir centrepiece of Auroville which contains a suspended meditation hall inside the globe and a serene lotus petal water feature below




on the way back from Pondi to Chennai we stopped at the Dakshinchitra Craft Foundation place where there are exhibits and reconstructed houses from around South India. These pictures show the models used by story tellers



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