Backtrack- A few from the beach

I'm battling the computer to get some photos online to share with everyone...so here are just a few more. These ones were taken in the state of Orissa, mostly in Puri where Dylan and I spent New Years. It was really a nice break! We met up with some Kolkata friends for a few days, made friends with some young fishers and even found some macaroni and cheese! How exciting that was!
This is the 'Empty Beach'as it's called. At first it seemed beautiful and wonderful, but aftera few days of roaming around, the garbage became more apparent and the feces (dog and human) definetly took away form the environment. These became particularly noticeable after a dead turtle (caught in the big industry fishing nets {from the big cities, not so much the local fishers}) washed up on shore beside us.
Nonetheless, it was a nice place to get away from the crowds for some sun and swimming!
Sideways, sorry! This is how we brought in the new year! Dancing on the street of Puri with about 20 young men! It was hilarious and so much fun! Indian men really have some incredible dance moves!

At another section of the beach I sat alone and watched people for awhile. This man was selling chapati with a dal or something veggie like and delicious, and samosas.
From Puriu we rented a scooter and scooted over to Konark for the day. Konrak is home to the Sun Temple, a World Heritage Site . DIP enjoyed it too...had to!

ANd one of the main reasons we ended up going south to Orissa from Kolkata was to visit a dinosaur museum in Bhubaneswar! not quite what we were expecting, more of a physics and math science centre, but there certainly was a giant T-Rex model!

I've run out of patience for uploads, but I have some delightful photos form the ashrams i just spent 2 weeks at. They'll be up next I hope!

hugs and more hugs
lauren