Train Journey
Koraput Orissa to Calcutta. 36 hours of colourful, chaotic, aromatic, noisy pleasure. I love train journeys in India! I enjoyed this one so much I was accused of having an affair with my camera, which is probably true! The countryside in Orissa is gorgeous. Verdant green paddy fields stretch for miles punctured by bright coloured sari's and lazy rivers. Muddy buffalos wallow in cool equally muddy ponds. The distant call of the chai walla brings the promise of another sweet masala tea while Hijra's (India's Eunuchs) dance and sing, clapping their hands to demand payments for good luck. Travel 3rd class..... or you'll miss the circus!
Koraput Orissa to Calcutta. 36 hours of colourful, chaotic, aromatic, noisy pleasure. I love train journeys in India! I enjoyed this one so much I was accused of having an affair with my camera, which is probably true! The countryside in Orissa is gorgeous. Verdant green paddy fields stretch for miles punctured by bright coloured sari's and lazy rivers. Muddy buffalos wallow in cool equally muddy ponds. The distant call of the chai walla brings the promise of another sweet masala tea while Hijra's (India's Eunuchs) dance and sing, clapping their hands to demand payments for good luck. Travel 3rd class..... or you'll miss the circus!
Group for travel pictures
A portfolio of Anne Helsop's professional weddings photography.
The world’s poor spends a staggering US$ 40 billion annually for their energy needs. This equals 10 to 25% of their precarious monthly household budgets on dirty fuels like kerosene. Many remote villages in tribal India are still without electricity. Just £15.00 buys a solar light which will give a family more than enough good light on a daily basis when fully charged. Women can continue with their work, without the toxic hazard of burning kerosene and more importantly children can study into the evening without damaging their eye sight. Whenever I am given a charity donation my first thought is which village needs solar lights!