Below is a nice selection of pictures taken from other members of our India group. I have also included a few public domain photos to show some places where we were not allowed to take photos. I’ll continue to add to this post as I get more.
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- Cows meandering around us in the Mathura train station
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- Sunrise in the bus
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- Some of our group took a sunrise cruise on the Ganges and grabbed these shots
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- Sunset cremations on the Ganges
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- Buddhist temple
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- Cow and monkey living in harmony eating trash
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- Group in front of Baha’i Lotus Temple, Delhi
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- Beautiful Kerla Syro-Malabar church dating back to 1000 A.D. but recently renovated
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- Cremations on the Ganges
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- Nice sunset photo of the Buddha
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- The less great but still great wall of Jaipur
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- Fr. Matthew explaining some Syro-Malankara liturgical points to us
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- Buddhist temple
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- Votive candles afloat on the Ganges
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- Nice photo of the Taj, Robert!
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- Ganges cremations in the distance
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- Cool view of the Taj from under its massive gate
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- Typical scene of people with their tents (many live in them) on the beach
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- Taj from the bus, I believe
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- Varanasi from the Ganges
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- Shiva side temples in the great Kali temple complex, Calcutta
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- Anne talking to the Syro-Malabar auxiliary bishop about recruiting students for BC
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- Buddhist temple, formerly Hindu, in Bodh Gaya
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- Kali statue, centerpiece of the Calcutta temple complex
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- Ganges view from the Calcutta Kali temple
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- Nice panorama of the Taj complex
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- Usually you have to take off shoes to enter holy places in India; at the Taj you put on these goofy covers
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- Mother’s Teresa’s tomb is decorated with a different quote every day
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- Ganges cremations
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- Monkey about to attack Robert
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- Enjoying the major pre-monsoon waves in Trivandrum
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- Pink city, Jaipur
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- Trivandrum beach
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- Flowers lining the alley where Buddha used to walk and meditate
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- Group members on a sunrise cruise upon the Ganges
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- Evening aarti worship in Varnasi aside the Ganges
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- Drenched by pre-monsoon storms at the site where St. Thomas was martyred
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- BC group with Fr. Matthew after celebrating the Syro-Malankara Qurbana
For more pictures of the BC 2013 India odyssey, click here and here. My travelogue can be found here and here.