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Maddie


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I went to India for a month in May to study Islam and I just got pictures from it and decided to post them cause I'm bored (sorry there are so many)...

Varanasi


Varanasi and the Ganges


Taj Mahal


Delhi


At the Qutub Minar in Delhi


Pushkar


Along the highway in Rajastan


Shrine of Nizamuddin in Delhi


My friend and a khadim at the Shrine at Ajmer


Lodhi Gardens in Delhi


Lodhi again


Me looking good in a rickshaw


Me dressed in shalwar kameez all hot and miserable


Jama Masjid in Delhi


Humayun's tomb in Delhi


Me and this greeter guy at our hotel in Pushkar


Shrine at Ajmer


Entry to the Shrine at Ajmer


People at the tomb of Moinuddin Chisti at Ajmer


Me getting sari'd up


Delhi


-- Edited by Maddie at 14:34, 2005-09-24

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Wow, beautiful pics!  Thanks for sharing.

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Thanks for sharing those, Maddie.  It sounds like a really interesting trip.

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Great pics! It seems like a truly amazing experience!  I would like to get over to India someday.

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How interesting! Thanks for sharing, these pictures are great.

I really hate to sound stupid here, but tell me about the "head dress" thing - I'm obviously not sure what you call it. When did you have to wear it? obviously not the whole time since you were without it at the hotel. I am just very uneducated about this & am curious.

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Maddie


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Thanks guys!

AJ, you totally have to go to India. It's totally crazy, so far from anything I'd ever seen before.

Laken1, I didn't know about this at all until I went to India. The head scarf is called a dupata and the whole outfit (pants, tunic, scarf) is called shalwar kameez. You don't have to wear it in most of India but we were studying Islam and so we had to wear it in all the Muslim towns and shrines. We only had to wear the scarf over our head while in a mosque or shrine, out on the streets you wear it draped like this...
(or even lower to cover your chest more)
When we weren't in a Muslim town we could wear what we wanted, but it always had to be at least mid calf, not too low cut, have some sort of sleeve and not show any midriff. It's not like we'd get stoned for wearing something more revealing or anything obviously, but we'd see the occaisonal tourist wearing shorts or something and it was just shocking. I was surprised that pretty much all women except for in the extremely wealthy areas still wear shalwar kameez or saris.

Sorry for such a longwinded response!

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beautiful photos!  you are a good photographer, maddie! 

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Love this picture! They're all great pics!



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Maddie


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bumblebee, thanks, I actually didn't take them though. I didn't take a single picture over the whole course of the trip because it's just a waste as I'm an appalling bad photographer. My friend actually took them, which is why I just got copies.

And subwolley, that pic of Delhi is the background on my computer.

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Beautiful.  

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Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!!

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So amazing!
My mom's friend is Kashmiri and he's always down on India (though I'm sure it partially has to do with the fact that Kashmir is such a mess and his family was forced to flee to Delhi) but I would still love to go.

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thanks for sharing, what a great trip. im so jealous! i hope to make it there someday.

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