Which way in New Orleans? Most of the New Orleans land is below the sea level so you can see a lot of bodies of water there and they get flooded easily. They kept saying us that everything in New Orleans is unique even their way of calling directions. They described directions with respect to the waters, which weave around the city: lakeside means toward Lake Pontchartrain; riverside means toward the Mississippi River; upriver refers to Uptown; and downriver refers to Downtown.
Category: Photography
photos from our travels, other interesting places and events
Gray beach view
It was all gray. The weather was quiet peaceful despite the graying clouds. I love this shot through the hotel window. It was nice to see the part of sun’s light focusing on the part of the beach and the sea. Isn’t it romantic affairs of the elements?
Frontier info the day:
in total, there are 1,652 languages and dialects spoken in India.
People on the beach
The blurry and grayish shot like the weather of the beach below the hotel through the window. This was just a fraction of the people that would eventually pack the beach’s brown sand enjoying life, and me enjoying watching them when I had nothing else to do. After all, I was there on vacation, and as a tourist to learn about them.
Frontier trivia the day:
80.5% of Indians are Hindus, with 13.4% of the population Muslim, making India home to the third-largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan.
The hotel pool
The hotel pool. A shot taken from our hotel room window. It was nice but I didn’t even once use it. To see the blue from the window was enough for me.
Frontier trivia the day:
Indian life revolved around agriculture and allied activities in small villages, where the overwhelming majority of Indians live.
Outside the hotel
This is on the other side of the view. I was still in the hotel premises; I was just sitting on the concrete gate that was made a seat from the inside since it is high from the outside. To get to this place I would pass through an outdoor dining. I still have to learn to love the Indian food though. During this time the weather was good, windy with respect to its being on the beach, and it did not rain. I was glad. It was good to come outside though sometimes I would have to hold my breath.
Frontier trivia the day:
India has more arable land than any country except the United States, and more water area than any country except Canada and the United States.
Hotel beach
On my second day in India I went down from the hotel to the beach that was just next to it. Hubby was at work so I was alone and I treasured the moment. You must have known that India follows China in numbers of its population, right? In 2006, there were more than 1 billion people in India, and most of it is packed in Mumbai or Bombay. In Juhu area where we were at, I would see thousands of people on this beach every afternoon. It was kind of fun though for me, for if there will be no people going there just to stroll around, it would be a lonely beach, since I just observe only one man swimming there. This was early yet so there were not much people lazing around.
Frontier trivia of the day:
India occupies 2.4% of the world’s land area and supports over 1.7% of the population.
The hotel room
This was our room in the hotel. It was a pretty nice room and with satisfactory service. One of the housekeeping staffs I came to be friends with. She is a Christian too, one of the 2.3% of the population. Yeah, why did I assume Indians are all Hindus and Muslims. I learned a lot from her. Cultures, they are beautiful and so unique they are worth learning. And I just love that. I took it as a privilege to be there.
Frontier trivia of the day:
the four major families of languages, Indo-European, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, and Tibeto-Burman as well as language isolate, the Nihali language are spoken in India. Only the continent of Africa exceeds the linguistic, genetic and cultural diversity of the nation India. (Wiki)