May and I went to a nearby mall to get a few things this afternoon. Carl and Aven went to see the new Planet of the Apes movie at the same mall. (It was even in English.) I am self conscious about taking pictures of people but I want to share the mundane scenery of our neighborhood.
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| Local juice stall. The health inspector was by just last week, right? That is a pile of trash at the right. |
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| There were lot of smashed melons with red powder on them today. I will try to find out what it means. |
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| We got a tear in May's backpack repaired. Check out that sewing machine! |
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| Religious supply stall |
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| An alley we passed. If you enlarge the picture, you can see a shrine about halfway down on the right. |
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| Road Work. Seriously. |
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| A powdered melon near a painted watermelon and a statue of Ganesha. |
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| Another alley |
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| A little river we cross to get to the mall. |
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| A house on the riverbank |
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| The water is black like ink. Silt? |
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| This is called an "auto" -- as in auto rickshaw. In Thailand, they were tuk-tuk's after the sound the motors make. This is the simplest mode of transportation. For a ride of about a mile, the cost is under a dollar. The fact that I stopped to take a picture has alerted the driver -- who is wearing white and headed toward us to see if we need a ride. |
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| At the mall, the number of stores for men's clothes and shoes outnumber the stores for women's by about 4 to 1. A complete reversal of our ratio. Most of the people at the mall were men. The few women we saw were with their husbands and sometimes children. |
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| This escalator makes a disquieting clank every now and then. |
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| Lots of guys. |
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| Typical street scene. People walking in the road. |
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| This is scaffolding in front of a store facade. The scaffolding is tree branches -- bark and all -- tied together with rope. |
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| More mystery melons. |
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| Close up. |
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| Woman selling young coconut. She will use a knife to lop off one end so the liquid can be drunk. Very high in electrolytes and excellent for hydration. It tastes like slightly sweet and fizzy water. I did not ask the price. |
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