Life from the balcony
Life from the balcony

Some of the things we see daily….still kinda surreal.

Our little shanty town thats popped up in the last week

across-the-road

Digging her own toilet… how charming!

adding-the-finishing-touches-diging-the-toilet

Rickshaw home anyone.

airconditioned

Bored guard..they seem to work 18 hrs days

bored-gard

Cows are walking everywhere here, they seem tame, although most like this one walk around people.

calf-walking-around-person

Looking towards downtown Kolkata, not that you can see it in the smog!

can-see-the-city-this-morning

Beautiful paint scheme on the apartments, the bridge in the distance is over the river in downtown.

city-center

The smog of Salt Lake City

clean-air-not

Cow crossing the road, its amazing they dont get killed.

cow-crossing-road

A road side stall, complete with cow doing a pee, and the rickshaws waiting for a fare.

cow-pissing

Afternoon game of village cricket anyone?

cricket-match

A far off apartment building

far-off-apartment george-asleep

Loaded my truck and got the best seat in the house, although its a little hard …

hand-loaded-truck

The smog is bad , we didnt realize what direction the city was until one day last week where the smog lifted for a couple of hours!

hazy-day

Yes that car is going down the road on the wrong side…dont worry its normal here!

hmm-wrong-way

the city center

howrah-bridge-from-our-plabe

A local bus service

local-bus-service rickshaw-lunch-break rickshaw rickshaws roadside-diner

 

We got our No Objection Certificates NOC for our animals today!

Yah, today we got our NOC certificates early, this is what they look like: It says on it we must produce our documents upon arrive, so that is easy.