Healthy snacks

These pictures are from a popular tourist spot - Mahabaleshwar. Tourists throng here to see the sights at the hill station and they also get treated to a lot of snacky food - but snacks like bowls of fresh fruits and vegetables and fresh juice and buttermilk! Not processed food. No sugar laden chemical laden soft drinks and no sandwiches or burgers. Lots of berries, fruits, corn cobs, carrots and lemon juice and butter milk!

These are not markets...but snack joints. Lets hope they stay this way.

A woman vendor in a pink sari boiling corn to serve as a snack to tourists.

Lot of berries - black berries, mulberries and strawberries. A man selling lemon juice in the background.

This woman is making fresh buttlermilk to be served up in glasses to drink on a hot day. A healthy and refreshing drink

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Monkey eating Ice Golas!

The Indian Ice Gola, a type of ice-cream is famous. So popular is it that monkeys too love it! This is a kind of instant ice candy made from crushed ice. You need to add salt and make small ice balls. Pour a sweet and colored flavouring syrup on it and viola! A gola is ready to eat. Golas are typical of India and sold everywhere by vendors, particularly at markets, fairs and tourist places. These photographs are of monkeys eating the golas thrown away by customers.

This monkey is making the most of a brown gola at a tourist spot in Mahabaleshwar.

If one has found a gola, another is not far behind. They are biting hard!

This monkey is worried that the gola is dripping water, and never mind the garbage around! Sadly people discard the food in open garbage bins.

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Krishna Temple in Mahabaleshwar

These are photographs of the Krishna Temple or Krishnabai temple in Old Mahabaleshwar. It is more than 7 centuries old, and was built by King Singhan of Deogiri. He built it at the source of the Krishna river. The temple is ancient and partly in ruins but it is well maintained. It overlooks a steep cliff from where one can get a lovely view. Amazing that despite being exposed to high winds and rain it still maintains its original shape.

There is a small pond in the courtyard of this ancient temple into which the waters of the Krishna river fall (from the mount of the Nandi). In this photographs you can see the carved stone pillars. Every part of this temple is beautifully carved.

The Nandi at the entrance to the temple

Another view of the temple's  open corridors and the carved pillars. The ceilings are also carved and these will be shown in another post.

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Women's earrings

She is a poor tribal woman but she wears her jewellery proudly. A vendor in Mahabaleshwar. Gold is the preferred metal in India. And everyone owns gold, the poor as well as the rich.

Another lady with her gold earrings and black and white gold mangalsutra.

The same woman vendor selling snacks and drinks on a hot day in Mahabaleshwar.

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Strawberry fields in Mahabaleshwar

Strawberry fields of a small farm in Mahabaleshwar

Women workers plucking ripe strawberries

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Venna Lake in Mahabaleshwar

Sunset at Venna Lake in Mahabaleshwar which is a popular hill station in Maharashtra. Tourists milling around the lake for boating, one of the activities available here.

People relaxing around Venna lake in Mahabaleshwar.

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