hunting for polar lights:
what an experience!

in the beginning they are really hard to see...

getting better ;-)

and then it is overwhelming...

hi again,
this time i am on a trip with hurtigruten in norway
together with my old friend mette from oslo.
maybe we'll meet lykke a little later
and she will join us on our tour for a few days...

with mette at the harbour of bergen

stockfish

a little village called bud, close to the atlantic road

same

and again

the famous atlantic road,
featured in the james bond movie
no time to die

in front of our ship, the ms trollfjord

 

our ship at the harbour of molde

day 9 and 10
meeting with saanvi in agra with the red fort and the taj mahal
finally!!!

ch. shivaji mahara statue opposite of the red fort

one of the magic places on earth: the taj mahal in agra

 

back again in delhi: the lotus temple

bye-bye saanvi, ila and india!
what a great time...

 day 8
jaipur

the hawa mahal, a five-storey building looking like a honeycomb of a beehiv,
so the ladies couldn't be seen, whilst watching the parade in the street

a snake charmer an his cobra oppositeof hawa mahal

the city palace of jaipure

same

same

same

some indian "distant relatives" (hihi)

ila in front of the main building inside the palace

the jaipur observatory is for astronomy and astrology

jaipur observatory
and again

 day 7
on the way to jaipur we stoppped at the chittorgarh-fort complex.
it's huge, old and full of apes...

the water palace inside ethe complex. very wiered story about
a princess, so beautiful that it was allowed to look at here reflection only.

 

day 5
on the way to udaipur ila and i stopped at the jaintemple in ranakpur,
which is a tempel of the jain people.
they are so vegan, that not even leather is allowed in the temple...

 

 

a lot to see on day 6 in udaipur

preparations for diwali

the jagdish temple in udaipur

the city palace was built over a period
of nearly 400 years

starting around 1560

city palace

the buildings in the back were used as a location
in the james bond movie octopussy

a shport break on an island in the taj-lake

same

this one and the next two shots: the ladies garden