India 2007 - Day Five, Part Two
I passed on the farewell dinner for some of my traveling companions tonight and will go to bed shortly. I'm over the worst of whatever it was that stabbed me in the gut yesterday but I'm not feeling great. Yet.
I figured out earlier tonight how to bulk process photos to make them easier to upload here, so without further ado, here are some shots of the drive from the hotel to the office today.
Each day we pass the Manhattan Cafeteria. Did the proprietor live in NYC?
A few more commercial establishments. A grocery store.
A place to buy clothes . . . seem familiar?
Hyderabad's version of Starbucks is Barista. There's a Barista in the lobby of the building where the office is located too. The coffee is good, and it doesn't cost $4.00 for a cup -- more like 30 cents!
Much of Hyderabad is really old. And it's growing so fast that there is much that's very new. And the rest is under construction. Note the rough cut trees used for scaffolding.
And much of that construction is draped in blue tarpaulins. I'm not kidding -- there must be square miles of this stuff covering buildings all along the route. So many of these buildings seem half built with no apparent activity at the site.
And finally, a distant shot of the office complex way on top of that hill. Next to -- you know -- more new construction.
