Delhi arrival

Helsinki luck - an upgrade to the world of champagne during take off and fully reclining seats.


India Gate


The afternoon heat of Delhi


Bound for Amritsar

Amritsar

Enjoying the camera


Haveli on a tiny backstreet


Bananas


Rickshaw wallahs


Milkman


Jallianwala Bagh, site of a massacre by the British army in 1919


Women at work, Jallianwala


Wall with bullet holes, Jallianwala

Durgiana Temple, a Hindu temple built in the style of the Golden Temple, and also known as the Silver Temple


Silver door


Hindu and Sikh cremations


Our cycle rickshaw man of wisdom (and fan of the British after a Geordie woman gave him a bike)


Flower power


Mata temple, commemorating Lal Devi, a bespectacled 20th century female saint


Glitz


No messing


Under the fan


Through the cow


India-Pakistan border at Wagah


Two-step


Waiting for the action


To shouts of "Hindustan Zindabad" (long live Hindustan)


Lowering the flag in Pakistan


Catching a glimpse over the border


The Golden Temple


Before the Hari Mandir Sahib, where the original copy of the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, is kept under a pink shroud during the day before 'being put to bed' in a temple at the other end of the causeway each night


Bathing in the Amrit Sarovar (Pool of Nectar), the sacred pool which gives the town its name


Guru-Ka-Langar, the free community dining room feeding dhal, rice and chapatis to up to 40,000 pilgrims a day


Continuous washing up

McLeod Ganj, near Dharamsala - headquarters of the Tibetan government in exile

In the woods


Entrance to the Tsuglagkhang complex, which includes the photang (official residence) of the Dalai Lama


One horned


Mobiles and motorbikes


Prayer flags


Shades of green


Momo stall


May all sentient beings be happy


Stumbling across a temple


Shuttlecock retrieval team


Prayer wheels


Ping pong


Hazy view of the valley


Bedecked


Construction site


Spring baths


Bhagsu waterfall


Our short-lived umbrella


Watching


The joy of flying


Spice stall


But no Brot or Kuchen?


Tsechokling Gompa


Let sleeping dogs lie


Outside a nunnery


Smiling in the rain


Primoz and Natasa