Yes, I lost my camera, so, I'll be telling stories on borrowed eyes.
Oh well. At least the trip was free! Sponsored by Louis Berger Group. Much oblidged to put the link there.
Below are the pics that Hans, our TA, took at Jama Masjid in New Delhi on our last day in India. More here. The next few posts will be using photos borrowed from I Maria, Kathy and Liz.
Wait... what's with the highlighter coloured... er... dress?
Local costumes. As immodest (Foreign women), we had to cover our head, arms and legs, so they gave us these ugly sheets to contend with. It looks funny, and the locals can spot us from miles away. Even with that, we were not allowed to enter the building. Darn.
There are 12 people on the trip. This is all of the girls in our class. On the far left is our prof and organizer-extraordinaire, Kathy.
So there we are hangin' out with the pigeons.
"The Masjid-i Jahan-Namaa (Persian: مسجد جھان نما, the 'World-reflecting Mosque'), commonly known as the Jama Masjid of Delhi, is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India. Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is one of the largest and best-known mosques in India [...] The mosque was the result of the efforts of over 5,000 workers, over a period of six years."-Wikipedia
Watercolour rendering of the mosque, 1852
