Musings of an Ukraine Traveler

Daily Life


Many times restaurant kitchens are outside because of space and fire restrictions. Cows often wander freely and the ditch in from is an open sewer that usually flows on into a lake.


Besides the milk and dung that cows provide they are also work animals. They haul people and goods. Here a pair turn the shaft for the water wheel (background on right) for irrigating fields.


This woman has just swept the street and put garbage in her cart. I was always amazed at women working in their beautiful saris. The orange sign indicates a phone that people can pay to use.


A Rajasthani villager wears the style of turban that indicates he is a Rajasthani. Many men were wearing the neon colors of lime and pink beside their tie-dyed ones. By the way tie-dye came from Rajasthan.


On the left and right of this bakery you can see the ovens used to prepare bread--naan.


I know this is a strange picture to you, but we never saw chickens in Rajasthan even though we ate it often as it is a regular part of restaurant menus. Also, a picture of these very birds was on a sign right outside the wildlife sanctuary as "Jungle Fowl" This guy and his small harem were inside Kumbhalgarh Fort.

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