Monkeys! I said the animals in India amaze me. Here were a pack of monkeys on the way up to a temple dedicated to Brahma's wife outside of Pushkar.

The city palace of Jaisalmer.

In contrast, here is the golden city in the far west of Rajasthan, Jaisalmer.

These are the blue Brahamin houses from the Rajput capital of Jodhpur. The whole city was blue!

I think you all know where this is. Chesa braved her tummy troubles (or her Delhi belly as she likes to call it) in order to see the famed site.

This is me and Xiao Xiong on his first excursion outside of Kunming to the crystal clear Fuxian Lake a few hours outside of Kunming. My student brought me, and we had a really good time until I almost fell into the lake...