the bone collector part II

continued from part I obviously.

But Bala was still interested in gathering bones, so he got a load of em.



At this point an old man began to walk purposefully towards us. I thought he had come to tell us off for picking up and photographing bones. Instead, he asked us to count his cattle. He wanted to know how many bulls and how many cows. We told him, he told us there should have been more, and went off to do his business....

I took a pic of him as he walked away...



thats him herding the cows...



that's how all this really looked like



and another totally useless pic...



and wait, there is another, not even with cattle in it. It was taken while waiting for this train, we heard it coming around five minutes before it actually came, which was pretty cool...



And then it actually shows up, which was cooler.



and



At this point the cowherd came back and asked us what we were doing, answerred his own question by saying that we were just roaming, smiled at his own cleverness, advised us to go to the temple to hang out, then disappeared somewhere.
But a very interesting piece of grass caught my eye.



Donno what's interesting about it? Take another look.



the thing went along with the wing... but hopped just a little bit.
Still can't see it? look closer.



Mebbe this will help.



Cool eh? Even cooler? i managed to catch it... somehow. With a plastic bag that was nearby. Have it in my bag now... hope it will die and I canphotograph it tommorrow.

We climbed the mound of the tracks, and looked around us...
hey even better way to put it. We went over the mountain... to see what we could see.



The tracks


Even the sewage in India is beautiful. But stinks a bit (...too much)



A goods train showed up, bala waited for it to pass...



I hurried up and took a photo as it went round the giant arc. I should have been quicker or sensible enough to zoom a bit.



then I dared myself to climb the signal post... because it wasthere. it shook so much with the wind. Imagine a heavier man, standing there when the train goes by. COOL.



The picture is not too clear, so I couldn't stop myself from doing THIS.



After that, we finally went on top to the mandir, on the way drinking water from this charming little farmhouse, with an enormous rooster that bala didn't see and an enormous cow that I didn't see...

this is the view from the top



You can see the edge of the tank on the bottom half of the pic...

This is a hill nearby being bulldozed. Wont be there in a few months time.



this is a goods train that showed up...





And this does not convey everything, but two trains meet, and this stretch was really cool, because the trains gleamed somehow... but it didn't come out well on camera.