Passing Through India - Photos - Third Set: Madurai, Meenakshi, Pongal, Jallikattu

Third Set of India Photos (Madurai, Meenakshi, Pongal, Jallikattu)

nagaswaram player

Meenakshi Temple

Meenaksi Temple - detail

Meenaksi - the view from below

a boy and his limes

a cycle rickshaw with sugar cane antennae

bananas, but bananas like you've never seen them before

bangles - Madurai

carrying the Pongal pot

egret takes flight in the backwaters

enjoying Pongal's sweet treat in the raw

family of five on a motorcycle

herding ducks

how silk strands become a 6m-long sari

prayers as the Pongal pot boils over

prayers in Meenakshi

railway coolies

reciting mythology at Meenakshi

dozens of varieties of rice for sale

selling fish at sunset on the middle cliff in Varkala

sugar cane for sale on the street corners of Madurai for Pongal

sunrise on Lake Venbanad

water flower bouquet in Kumarakum

bracing for the charge at jallikattu

bull grappling at jallikattu

hanging on to a purple bull

jallikattu pen from above

lee and the bull 'Ramu'

prepping a bull with paint for its coming out

run over at jalliakttu practice

the spoils to the winner - receiving a prize at jallikattu

this guy is about to win a pot at jallikattu

would you jump in front of this