There's a major clean up taking place here as its obviously one of the sections that got swamped with river silt & mud during the late monsoon and this is gradually being forced back into the river by using powerful water hoses.
This looks like a sandy beach but its silt/clay
The slow process of washing the silt mounds back into the river
Another street cleaner - I don't know if extra cleaners were employed to deal with the aftermath of the very busy Dev Depawali festival or if this is normal ... but all our fears about filthy streets have been unfounded
On the river front there are 88 Ghats and many incorporate temples and historic buildings.
This is the edge of the Chet Singh Fort .... had we taken our 4 hour row boat tour as planned we'd have learned the history of each one (and probably promptly forgotten it).
Happiness is ............
There were lots of small Dhobis (laundries) along the route
At least these items are drying on 'lines' or railings. We passed several places where the white goods were laid out on the paths to dry and as the paths are all coated with layers of clay I can't think they'd stay pure white for long
More street dogs, just chilling ...
Monkeys investigating the clean washing!
and just a couple of 'people' shots ....
It does seem somewhat counter-productive to lay clean washing on muddy streets but hey ho. The cows certainly look like they’re living the dream.
ReplyDeleteExactly my thoughts and I was tempted to lift a corner of one of the sheets to check the underside ... but thought better of it!
ReplyDeleteYes, don't the cows look as though they're spaced out!