The Village

The past weekend our entire group took a trip out to my family's village in the countryside around Varanasi. On the trip we visited a nearby waterwall, wandered my family's fields, ate raw sugarcane, played cricket with the local children and took lots of pictures.

Adventures in Varanasi

Here are some new pictures of our adventures in January, including: a tour of the Weaver's neighborhood of Varanasi, trespassing to get the view from the top of my favorite ghat, Muslim New Year, a trip across the pontoon bridge to explore the Ramnagar Fort, the solar eclipse (which did not photograph well), people bathing during the solar eclipse, cricket on the ghats, and many more.

Agra

This past weekend our group celebrated the beginning of the new year with a trip to Agra. The trip, which involved a train that was delayed by 7 hours and a 13 hour bus ride with an insane conductor (more on this later), was quite crazy, but it was totally worth it. After checking out these pictures of Agra Fort, the Taj Mahal and Fatehpur Sikri I think you will agree.