Noulakaz
The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.
Just stumbled upon that video and I’m amazed by how people in poor countries still manage to produce excellent photos using extremely low-tech devices. I would love to try using one.
The kamra-e-faoree was a common sight in Kabul a few years ago but now it’s rare…
Yesterday, we were in Flic-en-Flac to enjoy the carnival! I took many pictures and I’ve just uploaded them to Flickr for your enjoyment. The costumes were very interesting (e.g. the African tribe), the Brazilian dancers and musicians were great (and very photographer friendly) and the various Misses all beautiful (with a special mention to the Indian Miss naturally!).
The traffic though was absolutely abysmal.
It took more than one and a half hour to get there as there were simply too many cars converging to Flic-en-Flac. And, at the end of the carnival, the traffic jams were the worst I’ve ever experienced in my life! Whoever decided that the carnival was going to be held in Flic-en-Flac (which has the peculiarity of being served by one road only) and didn’t plan for the traffic did an act of negligence. It was a nightmare!
Once again, planning was lacking.
Thank you to all of you who have sent me happy birthday wishes yesterday. For some time now, I wanted to be a tourist in my own country so I told Christina, Anya, Kyan and my parents that we’re going to have lunch at Trou d’Eau Douce, chez Tino, and drive along the east coast up to Blue-Bay. We did that and it was bliss. Mauritius is beautiful.
When we returned home in Quatre-Bornes after 150km of driving, my parents invited us for dinner at their place where we met my brother and his family. We had a lot of fun there.
Life is cool. Even when you’re getting old :-)