Pandharpur Photo Gallery by spoonbender at pbase.com

Pandharpur

This is a very nice pilgrimage town in Maharashtra, though to read LP, you'd never know that. It's not even mentioned and it's misspelled on the map. I stopped here to, again, break up what would otherwise have been a long bus trip and I would say it is one of India's great temple towns. There is one very important temple in the center of the old town, but no photographs are allowed even of the exterior, so you won't see any of it here. I was even yelled at by soldiers for photographing shops NEAR the temple. They said, "security issues." Which is of course insane, but I complied, because there was tons to photograph anyway. But so if you are in Maharashtra, go to Pandharpur. You won't regret it. (You might very well regret going to Kolhapur, which LP for some insane reason recommends.)

I love the contemptuous stares	The biggest piles of red stuff I've seen anywhere	That's the main temple in the background. Forbidden to photograph	Tin	A seriously major wind storm blew through one afternoon	This guy ran out of a shop and asked me to photograph his foot. It looked like this.
Temples by the river	Mocking the foreigner.	Ganpati	Snoozing by the ghats	The river was lively and fun	Riverside temple
I was yelled at for taking this picture	Lots of horse drawn carriages in this town.	I was fascinated by this house.	Pilgrim rest house statuary	Here too.	Again
Inside a sort of strange temple	These things were in a basement I was led to by a friendly soldier		This one I can't figure out
The slain Mahatma	Mother India	Alley housing	Freaky head	Printmaker	Dork.
Look at the ears!	Bharat!	Nice colors	Temple statuary, a guru I'm guessing	The river again
	This guy looks very stoned	The old town is very colorful and full of winding alleys	We liked this		Indian doorways
	Ah, India		That's what it said: Duck.
She made me think of Ibsen.	Nice boats in Pandharpur	Kali, with the head of Ringo Starr.		Indian bicycles
How I feel most days			5.jpg	So active and alive down by the river	This is shot from across the river, at the Hare Krishna temple
				I was shooting the crow, the old lady wandered into my frame
	Not desaturated. It was just white				Carriage
	We liked this

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tharun vasu dev		10-Jan-2013 05:21
it's very beautiful the way u captured.this is dev from chennai.

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