Festivals… !!
by Joanna D.
Finally got through the last of my photos. These were taken at several different festivals during my time in Kovalam. Lots of culture; lots of grit and beauty. Enjoy.
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- How much more original can you get?
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- Festival at Samudra beach. The last day… day 10.
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- All set up to start cooking rice for prasadam.
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- Binu and his family.
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- The procession from the temple.
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- Fireworks? Firecrackers? Fire…bombs?
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- Check out those speakers. They were everywhere and super loud.
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- Boiling rice in one and boiling oils with flowers in the other.
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- Watermelon and other mashed up fruit juice. Yummy.
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- Ahhhh, the American bar.
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- Red bananas… good for eating.
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- Watching the temple.
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- They all wanted their picture taken…
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- And then they ran away.
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- The lights creating a huge image of Lakshmi.
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- Whoa.
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- If front of my Kovalam home. Nice little surprise…
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- SHIVA!!
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- Toll booth.
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- I know where these guys are going…
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- Yoga peeps!!
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- Hanging from trucks. Wow. Don’t think I will ever do that one, ok?
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- Prasadam in front of Molly’s.
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- Molly’s
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- Rickshaw ride number… ?
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- Whoa! All the elephants got a treat… a lot of them.
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- Temple I was not supposed to be taking pictures of… oops.
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- Binu!
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- This guy was awesome… red fingernails, dark sunglasses, a smoke and some chai…
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- Elephants procession merges with traffic
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- Women lined the streets of Trivandrum with their pots of rice
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- My last festival
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- Lots of ladies
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- Me and Binu trying to get a random guy to take our photo…
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