Week Seven

11/12/06 to 17/11/06

Into the Interior

  • 11/12/06 - Mumbai
  • 12/12/06 - Mumbai
  • 13/12/06 - Mumbai
  • 14/12/06 - Bhaja & Karla
  • 15/12/06 - Bijapur
  • 16/12/06 - Hyderabad
  • 17/12/06 - Hyderabad (Golconda)
Stylish Buddhist rock-cut cave temples at Bhaja


11/12/06 - Mumbai
The hugely cool-sounding Parsi Temple of Fire (closed to non-Parsis)
And the (former) Victoria Terminus, station of stations

12/12/06 - Mumbai

13/12/06 - Mumbai
Chowpatty Beach which, surprisingly, was much like ... a beach
Clambering around the Buddhist cave-temples at Bhaja
The larger, but Hindu-infested, temple at Karla (here seen with no Hindus)

15/12/06 - Bijapur
The impressive and likeable Ibrahim Rouza tomb, at the west end of Bijapur
Dramatic interior shot at Ibrahim Rouza's tomb
And the moat around the old Citadel, now in the town centre

16/12/06 - Hyderabad

17/12/06 - Hyderabad (Golconda)
Golconda Fort, in all its vertical glory
And again (we had to climb all those steps!)
One of the nearby tombs of the local maharajas

Week Eight