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Raniji ki Baori - the Queen's Stepwell at Bundi

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Raniji ki Baori - the Queen's Stepwell at Bundi

Photos of the Raniji ki Baori Stepwell at Bundi taken at different times of year, in the dry season and after monsoon rain.

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The Bawari ki Bas stepwell in Rajasthan

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The Bawari ki Bas stepwell in Rajasthan

The Bawari ki Bas stepwell is one of the most beautiful small village wells we've seen and the village headman seems delighted that we love it so much.

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An old Buddhist Shrine returns to the Indus River in Ladakh

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An old Buddhist Shrine returns to the Indus River in Ladakh

The old stupas and paintings were taken apart by a lama, broken up and cast into the river Indus which flows less than half a mile away.

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Padmasambhava in Zanskar

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Padmasambhava in Zanskar

Sani houses the oldest stupa in Ladakh and Zanskar and just outside the monastery is a huge Padmasambhava statue in the middle of a lake.

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The Hindu Sculpture Makers of Calcutta

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The Hindu Sculpture Makers of Calcutta

The village of Kumortuli near the famous Howrah bridge in Kolkata is a warren of workshops making clay sculptures from the river mud.

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