Going to Old Delhi...Spices market

Old Delhi is always busy and is always a race for the rikshaws to carry their passengers to this narrow city.

Old Delhi est tres frequente et pour les rikshaws, c'est toujours une course pour porter leurs passagers dans cette ville qui est tres etroite.

And even it was already 11.30 a.m, there were still a lots of people was sleeping on the road side or at the train station.

Meme qu'il etait deja 11h30 du matin, il y avait encore des gens qui dormaient au bord de la route ou bien a la gare.

But a lots of them started their lifes early in the
morning by selling things in the market. Old Delhi city is devided by a lots of different catagories. This particular one is the one for the spices and vegetables but we still can find different thing too!!

Mais, il y a beaucoup d'entre eux qui commence tot du matin en vendant de multitudes choses au marche. Old Delhi est divise par beaucoup de differentes categories. Celui la (photos) est tres particulier on peut trouver des epices et des legumes et en fait un peu de tout.

So, just choose what you need!

Choisisez ce que vous voulez!

The smell of the spices are all over the place and with the beautiful colours.


L'odeur des epices sont partout et avec beaucoups de differentes couleurs.

And this is one of our favourite photos.

Et cette photo est l'une de nos preferee

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY this month goes to my mother Anum Jemali(03 Feb), Sabrina Seiler(13 Feb), Florence Conus(14 Feb), Lili Hirschi(15 Feb), Claudia Durst(19 Feb), Fanny Monod(15 Feb), Mohd. Hamizi Omar(28 Feb) and Beatrice Durst(28 Feb). We wish that you guys will have the happinest, healthy and succed in what ever that you guys are doing. Happy Birthday and big kiss from us in India.

BONNE ANNIVERSAIRE pour ma maman Anum Jemali(03 Feb), Sabrina Seiler(13 Feb), Florence Conus(14 Feb), Lili Hirschi(15 Feb), Claudia Durst(19 Feb), Fanny Monod(15 Feb), Mohd. Hamizi Omar(28 Feb) et Beatrice Durst(28 Feb). Nous vous souhaitons plein de bonheur, une bonne sante et de reussi tout ce que vous entreprenez dans tout ce que vous faites. Bonne Anniversaire et gros becs de nous de l' Inde.

Wednesday 14th Feb, we were at Seiler house to celebrate Sabrina's Birthday. Since Radhika (Sabrina's mother) were quite busy (I guessed)...so, I offered her to make a small pizzas for the kids. Of course, it wasn't me who prepared the pizzas....it was Augustin. He really can make a good pizza!! But the kids ate very little of the pizzas and I can say that the parents were eating most of them. Well, that's fine for me....as long as it finished.

Today, I went to the Sarojini Nagar market to get an aquarium. I guessed that it's a time to start my fish project after all these years. When I met Laurent somewhere in 1998, I had this huge fish in my aquarium until one day I had to get rid of it. We could have eaten the fish....but we couldn't as we saw it everyday in the aquarium. Laurent took it away and gave it to the bangladesh workers who used to work with him. They made a nice red curry with my fish and Laurent ate.......I mean he really ate the fish. Huhuhu..... Poor fish!!!

Welcome Spring!!

Thursday, I played twice tennis....in the morning against Ponie and her friend and late in the afternoon I played against Laurent for 2 hours. After few months I didn't touch my racket, it was hard to start again and more I had to play two sessions. But it was fun!!

At the end of that day, I couldn't walk anymore and i felt pain every part of my body. Well that's sport...isn't it??

Friday, it was another boring day. Laurent supposed to terminate his job early but as usual he came back late and I went to the wet market that morning to get the fresh vegetables.

Saturday, the sign of spring has arrived. It was raining the whole day and we could forget about our tennis game. The rain has never stopped and the weather was so cold. We decided to stay at home and being lazy once in a while.........felt good.

8.00pm, we had a dinner at Brigitte house. I haven't spoken much with Brigitte but we always said "hello" to each other everytime that we met and with this invitation, it was the opportunity to know each other better then before. Thank you Brigitte!!

Sunday, we read and watched the movies. The weather was still like the day before....colder!! Good Bye winter and see you again next year....Welcome Spring!

Jeudi, j'ai joue deux fois tennis....le matin j'ai joue contre Ponie et sa copine et plus tard dans la journee, j'ai joue contre Laurent pendant 2 heures. Apres quelque mois, je n'ai pas touche ma raquette, c'etait dur de recommencer, en plus deux fois en une journee mais ce fut sympa!!

A la fin de la journee, je n'ai plus pu marcher et j'ai eu mal partout! Alors, c'est du sport...n'est pas??

Vendredi, ce fut une journee ennuyeuse. Laurent devait terminer son travail tot mais comme d'habitude il est revenu tard a la maison. Je suis allee au marche du poisson pour chercher des legumes frais.

Samedi, le signe du printemps est arrive. Il a plu pendant toute la journee....le tennis, nous pouvions oublier. La pluie ne s'arrete pas et il faisait froid!! Nous avons decide de rester a la maison....d'etre paraisseux......de temps en temps, cela nous fait du bien.

20h00, nous avons eu une invitation chez Brigitte. Je la connais a peine mais on s'est dit bonjour quand on s'est vu et avec cette invitation ce fut une opportunite de se connaitre plus. Merci Brigitte!!

Dimanche, nous avons lu....avons regarde les films!! Le climat etait toujours comme le jour avant.....froid! Au revoir l'hiver et a l'annee prochaine et bienvenue au printemps!!

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Sunday Walk

Sunday, we went to visit a handicraft market which is situated 45 minutes from the Embassy. This market has been organized once a year starting from 1st Febuary and it is fro 2 weeks. We can find a lots of thing that coming from all around India and we just need to have enough money. I guessed that we have spent to much money for the apartment until we didn't feel like we want to buy anything....perhaps next year!!

Later that day, we went to Kak Asmah house at the Malaysian High Commission to have a chat with her and her husband. I also gave her a small package that I need to send to Lukman at Abuja. Between the diplomatic begs, hopefully my package will arrive safely to Abuja.

Monday, I decided to make my driver working a little by bringing me to the market and visiting a friend that I haven't seen for the past few months that I was away.

Today, I went to the DELHI NETWORK meeting to meet people. I could see there is so many new people who just arrived to Delhi registered themselves today. I left a bit early...so that i could start my quilt. In the afternoon...I stayed in the between of the kitchen and my quilt. I tought Augustin to do a fresh lasagne, a fresh tagliatell and of course a mango and lime sorbet.


Ce dimanche, nous sommes alles a un marche d'artisanat qui est situe a 45 minutes de l'ambassade. Le marche est organise chaque annee au mois de fevrier et ceci pour seulement 2 semaines. Nous pouvons trouver tous l'echantionnage de l'art indian et nous n'a besoin que de l'argent pour le depenser. Je pense que nous avons deja beaucoup depenser d'argent pour notre appartement jusqu'a ce que nous n'aillons plus tellement envie d'acheter quoi que ce soit.....peut-etre l'annee prochaine!!

A la fin de cette journee, nous sommes alles chez nos amis malaisiens qui habitent dans l'ambassade de Malasie. Avec Kak Asmah et son mari, nous avons toujours des choses a raconter. Je lui ai donne un petit paquet que je devais envoyer a Abuja chez Lukman. Entre les valises diplomatique, j'espere que mon paquet va arriver a bonne destination.

Lundi, j'ai decide de faire travailler un peu notre chauffeur qui s'endort. Il m'a emmene au marche et ensuite nous sommes alles rendre visite a mon ami que je n'ai pas vu depuis quelques temps.

Aujourd'hui, je suis allee a DELHI NETWORK pour retrouver les amis et certains qui viennent d'arriver a Delhi. Je suis partie un peu plutot que d'habitude car j'avais envie de commencer mon patchwork. L'apres-midi, je suis restee entre la cuisine et le patchwork car j'ai montre a Augustin comment faire de la pate a lasagne fraiche, des tagliatels fraiche et du sorbet a la mangue et au citron.

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Seri Maya, Kuala Lumpur

The swimming pool and jacouzzi / La piscine et jacouzzi

The breezeway on the 21st floor / Le breezeway au 21eme etage

The breezeway / Le breezeway

The view from balcony / La vue du balcon The heritage village next to savanna (D block) / Le village du heritage a cote du Savanna (D block).

These are the views you can see from Havanna. From the 21st floor where you can find a breezeway (open air) and you can almost see everything that surrounded Seri Maya. The swimming pool and the jacouzzi are in the between of Havanna (C block) and Savanna (D block). The breezeway is the place where you can relax and enjoy the view of Kuala Lumpur. That is the place where we celebrated our New Year Eve and we could see the fireworks from everycorner of Kuala Lumpur and State of Selangor. And next to Savanna, you can see the Heritage Village. It is beautiful and it is like a resort in the middle of Kuala Lumpur city.

C'est la vue que nous avons pouvons voir depuis Havanna. Le 21eme etage est le breezeway et vous pouvez voir ce qui est autour de Seri Maya. La piscine et le jacouzzi sont entre l'Havanna (C block) et le Savanna (D block). Le breezeway est un endroit ou vous pouvez vous reposer et en meme temps vous pouvez profiter la vue de Kuala Lumpur. C'etait la bas que nous avons fete notre nouvel an et nous avons pu voir les fireworks autour de Kuala Lumpur et l'etat de Selangor. A cote de Savanna, vous pouvez voir le village d'Heritage. C' est tres jolie et comme un petit resort au milleu de la ville de Kuala Lumpur.

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Our small nest in Kuala Lumpur / Notre petit nid a Kuala Lumpur.

Kitchen / La cuisine

Living and dinning / Le salon et la salle a manger.

The Balcony / Le Balcon

The master bedroom / La chambre a coucher (1ere)

The second bedroom / La deuxieme chambre a coucher

The third bedroom / La troisieme chambre a coucher

The 1st shower and toilet / La 1ere salle de douche.

All these works we managed to do in 3 weeks but of course not for 100%. The kitchen has not finished as there was no more stock at IKEA. Every once in three days we visited IKEA but the stock has not arrived as they told us earlier. So, we know what we will do next time when we will be in Malaysia. The dinning room is done and we are just waiting to buy a new sofa for a living room. At the moment our friends Radhika and Rene who bought one unit at D block put their sofa at our place in waiting their apartment finish by end of the year. It is good though we no need to stress to find what we like to have. All the bedrooms are not totally done yet due to the difficulties to find the correct size for the mattress. Even in IKEA, they sell the asian size and our mattress came from europe. It might take time to furnish the whole apartment but we will take time to do it. But a the moment, if you come...there will a bed to sleep....a kitchen where you can cook and the place to sit and enjoying a view of Kuala Lumpur!

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Hello......

Hello friends and family!! It has been a month I'm away from the outside world. Wish you all Happy New Year....hopefully it is not too late. With the work that we've done for the past few week in our apartment and the internet crash in South East Asia after the earth quake in Taiwan, cut off our connection to the outside world.

Now, I am on the way back to India and make a stop at Starbuck at KL Intenational Airport to check my email and at the same time to update my blog that I really missed during all these times. I've been thinking a lots about it but I just couldn't put my fingertip on it. I hope that you guys are not dissapointed with my disapearance for the past few weeks. Tired and sometime frustrated with the work but at the same time we are happy to have our small nest.

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Merry Christmas to all....

Le palais des vents / The wind palace / Istana Angin

Un petit parcour en chameau / Camel ride / Menunggang unta

We wish to all friends and family a Merry Christmas and enjoy the FOOD but don't get fat.....hahaha.
We just arrived from Jaipur but I guess we still have enough time to celebrate. Lamb leg serve with mash potatoes and the VEGETABLES.....!!! That's all for our Christmas dinner!! But it is so bad.

So, about the trip to Jaipur.......it was great and it was differant than Agra and Amritsar. People are differant. For the first time we could walk freely....finally without any annoying people around who always disturbing and asking for something. It was cool!!!

Pour la famille et tous nos amis, nous vous souhaitons JOYEUX NOEL et bon appetit mais ne soyez pas gros......hahaha.
Nous sommes juste rentre de Jaipur mais nous avons encore du temps pour feter notre noel. Un Gigot d'agneau avec puree de pomme de terre et des LEGUMES.......!! Ce sera tout pour notre souper de noel mais c'est suffisant apres avoir mange des legumes pendant trois jours a Jaipur.

Alors, nos sejours a Jaipur, etait bien....fantastique....magnifique....ne sais pas encore ce que je peux trouver comme mot. C'etait differant que Agra et Amritsar. Les gens sont tellement differents aussi. C'est la premiere fois que nous avons pu marcher tranquillement sans etre derange. C'etait vraiment cool!!!

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Indian Administration....

Few tips to handle the problems with the administration in India. Well, just don't think that you can solve your problem in one hour or one day, sometime it can take a week. Even how many supporting document that you provide, it won't be enough as they won't read the whole thing and most of the time they don't read at all as they don't understand English. If you are lucky, they will ask you to read for them and after that, they will ask you what is your name and where you are staying.....even it is already stated clearly in the letter. Or if they do understand English, sometime you will need to explain in english....or I can say that....in your own version. Wish you good luck for that. And that is the end of my story for today.

Quelques conseils pour resoudre les problemes administratifs en Inde. Voila, ne pas penser que vous pouvez resoudre le probleme en une heure, ou en un jour, des fois cela peut prendre jusqu'a une semaine. Meme si vous avez tous les documents necessaires, ceci n'est souvent pas assez car ils ne vont pas lire tous les papiers et la plupart du temps ils ne les lisent pas car ils ne savent pas l'anglais. Si vous avez de la chance, ils vont vous demander de les lire pour eux et apres cela, ils vont vous demander votre nom et ou vous habitez.....meme si cela est ecrit noir sur blanc sur les papiers que vous leur avez donne. Ou si ils comprennent l'anglais, ils vont quand meme vous demander de leur expliquer en anglais.....ou je peux dire.....dans leur propre version. Je vous souhaite bonne chance si vous devez passer par la. Et c'est la fin de mon histoire aujourd'hui.

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Makan.....eat.....manger!!!!

Sunday, 17 Dec 2006. Dimanche, 17 Dec 2006

Cheese raclettes in the garden. The weather was nice to sit outside and having the cheese raclettes....it was just something else. We invited the Seiler family who welcomed their newborn baby recently and Radhika's mother just arrived from Brisbane, Australia. I believed that I won't even stand on the garden during the summer because it would be hot.

La raclettes dans le jardin! Le climat etait parfait pout rester a l'exterieure de la maison et nous mangions de la raclette.....c'est autre chose. Nous avons invite la famille Seiler qui a accueilli un nouveau ne recemment et la maman a Radhika qui est arrivee de Brisbane, Australie. Je crois que je ne resterai pas dans notre jardin en ete car il va surement faire vraiment chaud.

Saturday, 09 Dec 2006. Samedi, 09 Dec 2006.

Makan....makan and makan lagi!! We were invited at Malaysian High Commission just to eat and eat and eat. There were a lots of foods and we were really enjoying the Malaysian taste. It was delicious. At the same time, we could meet more people as in Delhi, it is hard to get near to one person and when we can...we really appreciate it. Perhaps it takes more time then other place. We just wait and see!!

Makan...makan et makan lagi!! Nous etions invite a l'ambassade de Malaisie tout simplement pour manger. Il y avait beaucoup de nourriture et cela fait plaisir d'avoir le gout de la Malaisie. C'etait delicieux. En meme temps, nous avons rencontrer du monde. A Delhi, c'est difficile de rencontrer des gens et quand on peut...on apprecie beaucoup. Peut-etre qu'il faudra plus de temps qu' ailleure. Nous attendons seulement....et verrons!!

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My happiest day since I arrived in India

I went to the governement office today to get one paper that we needed to move our things to Malaysia. Since not everyone knows English, I brought my driver along to translate whatever I needed. But he himself does not understand English as well. That was funny!! The building is 5 stories high and at the beginning they sent us left and right up and down for 45 minutes. They took the letter that I had in my hand and look at it for a few minutes and then they told us to go there....there and left....right....up and down. Nothing is written on the wall, the name of the person, the room no., just nothing and yet when we asked nobody knows where was it. But this time, I was happy with myself or I made a progress of being calm to handle this type of thing. I wasn't angry at all even after they sent me left and right....up and down for 45 minutes and sometime they said a nasty word to me but I just don't care. Being angry with the people here, considered a normal thing. So, we aren't suprise if you are here and screw up everyone who's trying to get something from you but anyway GOOD LUCK.

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Happy Birthday to all!!

In Delhi, the weather became colder then few weeks ago and somehow it will become more cold in the next coming week. It is nice to go and see thing while we aren't sweating like in the summer time. The flowers are also started to bloom and they make Delhi looks like celebrating the spring. We are enjoying the beauty of Delhi with so many flowers all over the places.

May be some of them celebrated early this month and some of them will celebrate in few days...but we just want to wish you all a Happy....Happy Birthday.

This wish goes to Mizam (03 Dec), Stephanie Lagattu (08 Dec), Sylvie Monod (09 Dec) Bernhard Schurch (12 Dec), Nadir Abibo (24 Dec) and Chi Meei (25 Dec). Happy Birthday to all of you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND BIG KISS
Laurent and Meenz (NDH)

A Delhi, le climat a beaucoup change depuis quelques jours. Il fait froid et il va faire de plus en plus froid dans les jours a venir. C'est sympa d'aller a gauche a droit et de pouvoir voir les choses sans transpirer comme c'est le cas en ete. Les fleurs sont en train de fleurir et cela fait penser que Delhi fete deja le printemps et c'est magnifique de voir toutes ces fleurs partout dans la ville. C'est vraiment agreable!!

Il y a peut-etre certains qui ont deja fete plutot ce mois et certains qui vont feter un peu plus tard mais nous vous souhaitons BON ANNIVERSAIRE a ce qui fete leur anniversaire au mois de Decembre.

BON ANNIVERSAIRE a Mizam (03 Dec), Stephanie Lagattu (08 Dec), Sylvie Monod (09 Dec), Bernhard Schurch (12 Dec), Nadir Abibo (24 Dec) et Chi Meei (25 Dec). Bon anniversaire a tous.

BON ANNIVERSAIRE ET GROS BECS
Laurent et Meenz.

Carpets....but not the flying carpets

We visited a carpet shop. The owner came at home to pick up Laurent because to find the way to get there wish you good luck. The owner of this shop is coming from Kashmir and doing business with the kashmiri people, we just can't get....not even 0.0001% off the price. But the problem is, we only can get nice carpets from this people. No doubt that the carpets are also in good quality and with very nice design. Who ever likes this kind of staff, definately he will fall in love when he see them. We are wondering how much it will cost us, if we buy straight away from Kashmir. Here, in Delhi....if you want thing, you just need to pay the price no matter how much does it cost. The eyes felt down on the floor when we saw the carpets that made in silk, silk and cotton and also cotton but they are too......too....too expensive.......without any 0.0001% discount. Huhuhu.......

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Nous avons visite un magasin de tapis. Le proprietaire est venu a la maison pour chercher Laurent car ce n'est pas evident de trouver ce magasin et il vient du Kashmir. Pour faire du business avec les Kashmiris, nous ne pouvons meme pas demander pour 0.0001% de rabais. Mais le probleme, c'est qu'avec eux nous pouvons avoir que des beaux tapis. Pour ceux qui aiment ces choses la, sans aucun doute ils vont en tomber amoureux. Nous nous posons des questions combien cela nous coute si nous achetons les tapis directement du Kashmir. Ici, a Delhi.....si on veut vraiment quelque chose, on doit payer le prix meme si le prix est incroyablement chere!! Les yeux sont tombe par terre quand nous avons vu les tapis qui sont fabrique en soie, en soie cotton et aussi en cotton mais cela coute tres.....tres....tres chers.............sans 0.0001% de rabais. Huhuhu......

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Old Delhi....Old Door....Old Jain Temple....Old...Old

This is an Old Delhi. It is almost 45 minutes from New Delhi, where we are staying. Everything look OLD in Old Delhi but with the young generation who is trying to find the way to continue their life's. At Old Delhi, we can find a lots of thing but of course it depends on what we need too.
We visited the oldest Jain Temple in Delhi which is situated in Old Delhi. It is one of the tourist spot too but beware of the PICK POCKETS!

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Ceci est Old Delhi. C'est a peu pres a 45 minutes d'ou nous habitons. Tous les choses semblent vielles a Old Delhi mais les jeunes generations qui essaient de trouver quelque choses pour continuer leur vie quotidien. A Old Delhi, nous pouvons trouver beaucoup de choses mais bien sur ce dont nous avons besoin seulement. Nous avons aussi visite le Jain Temple qui est le plus vieux temple de Delhi et c'est situe a Old Delhi. C'est aussi un lieux touristique mais faites attention aux PICK POCKETS!

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St Nicolas etait chez nous!!

He came to Delhi by foots hahaha. May be he parked his transport in Nepal while no snow in Delhi. And he came quite early here and apparently he comes every year on 02nd Dec in at the Embassy of Switzerland. It's cool.

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Il est venu a pied....hahaha. Peut-etre il a laisse son traineau au Nepal ou a Himachal Pradesh car c'est seulement la bas, qu'il y a de la neige actuellement. Il est venu aussi tot ici et apparement il vient toutes les annees le 2 Decembre a l'ambassade de Suisse. C'est cool!!

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Des legumes du jardin....c'est delicieux!!

We visited the garden today and took few pictures of Meenz's mother....actually not only visited but also collected some of the vegetables. We have so many of them and we can't finish them all. This season is also good for them to grow and we spend less money for having our own garden. Hahaha......don't be jealous!!!

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Nous avons visite le jardin auourd'hui et nous avons pris des photos de la maman de Meenz. Actuellement, ce n'etait pas seulement une visite, nous avons aussi cueilli des legumes. Nous en avons beaucoup et croyons que nous ne les finirons jamais. La saison est aussi bonne pour la recolte de ces legumes et nous n'avons pas besoin de depenser plus pour les avoir car nous avons notre propre jardin. Hahaha......ne soyez pas jaloux!!!

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The beauty of Agra.

Last weekend we went to Agra to visit Taj Mahal and other places which are also nice. Even it was only a weekend, we felt that we did a lots of thing in 2 days perhaps because of to visit India isn't easy at all. If you want to test how ZEN you are then try India. You will see!! We went to see Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri. All these places are so beautiful and it was nice if we could sit there and enjoy the view with the ancien monuments around us but there is always people who called themselves as a guide came and disturbed or sometime forced us to do thing that we didn't really want to do. That is only disadvantage of visiting India. Sometime we have to show them that we are angry, so that they can stop but they will try again and again!! We haven't been so rude in our life until we reached here, just to make them understand what is all about. We know that this thing won't stop but at least we prepare for the next voyage.

Agra is synonymous with Emperor Shah Jahan's monument to love, the Taj Mahal, which draws a huge number of tourists from India and the rest of the world. In the mere three generations during which city retained regal favour, it was embellished with the best of the Mughal architectural legacy, crowned by the Taj. Close by is Emperor Akbar's city, Fatehpur Sikri.

From the top : Meenz with her mother at Agra Fort.

Middle : Sunset at Taj Mahal

Bottom : Laurent & Meenz with thousand and thousand of others visiting Taj Mahal.

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HIMACHAL PRADESH

Himachel Pradesh is a land of many splendour: exotic landscapes of mountains, wide verdant valleys, forbidding heights eternally covered in snow and ice, thundering rapids of snow-fed rivers and gently gurgling brooks, ancient temples and historic buildings.....the count is endless.

Kangra Valley. The Kangra Valley lies between the Dhauladhar range and the Shiwalik foothills, spreading northwest from Mandi to Jassur, near Pathankot. Although named after Kangra Town, the largest towns are Dharamsala (1,830 m) and Palampur (1,249 m). The valley is famous for its tea gardens, especially around Palampur, for the Jwalamukhi, Baijnath, Brijeshwari Devi and Chamunda Devi temples, and for the Kangra school of miniature paintings.

Dharamsala is located in the upper reaches of the Kangra Valley, set against the backdrop of the Dhauladhar range. The town is known around the world because it is the home-in-exile of the Dalai lama, Tibet's spiritual head, who lives at McLeodganj (or Upper Dharamsala), popularly known as Little Lhasa. Little Lhasa is enchanting, with its many spinning prayer wheels and fluttering prayer flags spreading the message of peace and universal harmony.

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Do you need a ride.....please choose!!

This is one of the preparation for the winter that we saw on the north of India. It is quite loaded isn't it? We think there is no law for having overloaded lorry. It is quite impressive to see such thing like this and the pictures we took during our way to Dharamsala at Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh itself is so beautiful with the nature and rice fields are everywhere which makes the place look so peaceful compare with Delhi where the traffic is so congested. But our visit to Amritsar and Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh) just for one weekend which was too short and the way was so long to reach these two places. This experience we will never forget as Meenz almost missed her flight back to Kuala Lumpur. But she managed to check-in 10 minutes before the gate closed. Thank god.

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Lost and found....friendship!!!

These are the pictures with our friend Fares Al-Fayad from Lebanon. We have met him three years ago in Abuja and thought that we would never met him again. But this time we met him in Kuala Lumpur while he was working there for three months. That was the reason why we could meet there. Laurent arrived to Kuala Lumpur at 6.30 a.m on 21st Oct and Fares took a flight back to Lebanon at the same day but night time. We felt lucky that we still managed to see each other even though it was short. "To Fares" felt good to see you again and hopefully we will meet again soon and perhaps in Lebanon (in your country).

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Ce sont des photos avec notre ami Fares Al-Fayad du Liban qui a travaille a Abuja trois ans en arriere et nous avons pense que nous ne nous reverrions plus depuis son depart d'Abuja. Et cette fois ci, nous avons eu la chance de pouvoir le revoir a Kuala Lumpur. Il a travaille a Kuala Lumpur pendant trois mois et malheureusement seulement avant son depart au Liban, nous avons pu le revoir pendant nos vacances. Laurent est arrive a 6.30 du matin le 21 Oct et Fares a pris le vol au meme jour au soir. Alors, nous avons passe la journee entiere a nous raconter les conneries que nous avions fait ensemble au Nigeria. ''Pour Fares'' c'etait sympa de pouvoir te revoir encore et nous esperons que nous nous reverrons bientot et peut-etre au Liban (dans ton pays).

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