A town along the edge of Dal Lake.

I wonder if you were brave enough to try the cuisine as well?
Mirza

Mirza Ahmad wrote:

I wonder if you were brave enough to try the cuisine as well?
Mirza

No street food in exotic lands for this traveler.
I DID, however, get dysentery from eating meals at the floating houseboat where I stayed on Dal Lake.
Turns out the toilet emptied directly into the lake at the back of the barge. And the woman of the house drew water from the lake- at the FRONT of the barge.
The only time in a 40-year period of international travel that I got so sick I had to be attended by a doctor.
Man, was I P.O.ed when I realized where her cooking water came from.
Charlie

Nice and simple photography! Sorry to hear that you got sick over there. You should always take packed food with you when you travel

Hi Charlie,

I like the second. I’m wondering if you tried a photo from the kids head height.

Morris

Thanks Sozy and Morris.
Sozy- My many travels abroad have varied between two to eight months long. My luggage was a backpack. Lugging packed food all the time would have been a heavy burden, a real nuisance, and required that I ate cold food all the time. Nope . In more than 30 months of traveling abroad, I got sick three times from what I ate, and Kashmir was the only time that required seeing a doctor. Pretty good for eating locally all the time. But I WAS careful.
Morris- My right knee hasn't bent properly for many years, so I almost always shoot from a standing position.
Charlie

Charlie Shugart wrote:
Mirza Ahmad wrote:

I wonder if you were brave enough to try the cuisine as well?
Mirza

No street food in exotic lands for this traveler.
I DID, however, get dysentery from eating meals at the floating houseboat where I stayed on Dal Lake.



A couple of months ago my wife and I rode a floating houseboat on Vembanad Lake in Southwest India (Kerala). We saw the lake being used for washing laundry, bathing, washing pots and pans etc. I had my suspicions that it might contain raw sewage, and your comments seem to support that.