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Goats rest outside a temple in Fatehpur Sikri, India.
A woman and boy wait with their goat at a bus stop in Jaisalmer, India. Mahjong (or 麻將, má jiàng) is a centuries old game that originated in China. In Shanghai, it is commonly played as a gambling game, with participants of all ages, sitting for long hours engrossed in their game. There is a Mahjiong house in the old housing development next to my apartment building. I visited one Saturday afternoon to find local residents wearing their pajamas, smoking cigarettes, drinking tea, eating noodles and playing Mahjong with their neighbors.
Dan Shapiro of The Fever Machine plays during the 2011 Shanghai Midi Music Festival. For a photo gallery I made on fashion at the festival see: I have an overwhelming number of photos from my trip to India and southwestern China in January, so I’ve decided to break the editing work into a couple of installments. This first installment covers the first ten days of the trip in Delhi and the surrounding area and then the three Rajasthani towns of Jaipur, Jaisalmer and Jodhpur. ![]() The sun sets over the wing of my China Southern Airlines plane on the way to India. ![]() The cityscape of Old Delhi as seen from the top of the A view of the city of Delhi from the top of the Jama Masjid mosque. ![]() Two men relax together in front of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. ![]() he fourteen major geometric devices of the Jantar Mantar astronomical observatory in Jaipur, India were built in the early 1700s for measuring time, predicting eclipses, tracking stars in their orbits, ascertaining the declinations of planets, and determining the celestial altitudes. ![]() Two monkeys at Galwh Bagh in Jaipur, India. ![]() A view of one of the inner courtyards of the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur India. ![]() A camel walks down the street in Jodhpur, India. ![]() A couple relax on the train between Jaipur and Bombay. After writing about the Shanghai’s pampered dogs for CNNGo, I am hoping to turn my attention toward the city’s feline site. Here are some photos from my first two preliminary shoots of two ladies who have dedicated themselves to caring for the city’s homeless cats.
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