India - a couple videos...more to come

Here we go, these take forever to process, but you can start to take a look. The project I started to try to edit these together is taking FOREVER. So I thought I should start to get a couple of the little phone cam videos up. Not bad quality really, for a phone. These are from my perspective...so...I am not in them, but will post photos as well in one of the next blogs.
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A rickshaw ride through old Delhi...
Felt very strange to have a human being pulling us around on the rickshaw - you get a bit of a sense of the look of the busy street in Old Delhi, pictures to come of the narrow alleys and stores. We were there on a Sunday, though, so quite a bit was closed.



The Oberoi Amar Villas Hotel - Poolside
Totally beautiful hotel where we stayed for two nights while we were visiting Agra. After we got there the first day (after a bumpy and jerky 5-hour car ride), we headed down to the pool to enjoy the weather (a comfortable 32 degrees or so) and the pool. The next morning at 6 am we went to visit the Taj Mahal. Again...photos to come.



Jaipur, the Amber Fort

Andreas got a touch of ...delhi belly (although in Agra) but was feeling somewhat better the second day in Jaipur. We visited the Amber Fort (a 360 degree view near the entry shown here.


Learning Indian Dance
Within the Jaipur Amber Fort, we came across a dance lesson with a bunch of kids. Was really fun to watch them. These are the younger girls, we got to see the older ones a few minutes later, but I didn't get them on video - and they were quite amazing.



Wind Palace
Also in Jaipur, the wind palace is actually just a facade. It was used by the palace women as a front from behind which to watch, without themselves being seen. Yes, that is Andreas saying "no thank you" to someone in the background...


Amarpal and Jinny's wedding vid 1
The ceremony lasted about 45 minutes, and during most of it, the guru simply chanted from the big book in front of him (the Sikh sacred text) and then towards the end, the bride and groom slowly circled him four different times...and then they were married. Yes, that is a sword in front of Amarpal. ;-)