The other day, Adam and I were wanting to do a little more exploring in our city... there's so much stuff here!! It's an old and cool city and there's so much to explore!! We have some friends here that know TONS about the history of the capitol. They were telling us about some cool stuff around that's off the "beaten path" and are hard to find. So we went with their boys to explore the area :)We explored all over the palace and the area around it! We got to climb all though it and all over it!
This year, our neighborhood was quite active for Dusshera. At one end of our street, one of the major political parties here, set up a Dusshera celebration. Here are some guys putting the effigies together and filling it full of fireworks! They had quite the political statement for their celebration. (Basically that expensive water, fuel, electricity, diesel, gas, etc and FDI (bringing in foreign companies like Wal-Mart) are like Raverna (the demon god)... and are the evils of today....) Here's their set-up at the end of our street.... you can't see it very well, but they had all three effigies there that they burned.... They burned VERY quickly at this one... So quickly that by the time I pulled out my camera, it was already on the ground!! Our street looked like those CNN videos of rioting cities :) haha!! There was burning stuff all over the street :) Many people will get a piece of the leftover wood/bamboo...
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