Urban Exploration

I have been urbexing in Germany and visited some amazing places. These abandoned places are really fascinating and great for photography. During the weekend in Berlin I went to three different places, the Soviet Clinic, Kazerne Krampniz and Beeliz Heilstätten.

Kazerne Krampniz from the outside

Surgery room at the Soviet Clinic

The entrance of Beeliz Heilstätten

The green room

Someone had made their own art

The gym

The abandoned corridors

And we met V

An abandoned room at the Soviet Clinic

The outside

This place was not easy to find...

The gym at Kaserne Krampnitz

Beautiful buildings with beautiful windows

Connemara Tea Factory

On my journey from Thekkady (India), and back to Trivandrum, we drove through beautiful tea plantations. We stopped at Connemara Tea Factory to learn about the tea production. Unfortunately I where not allowed to photograph inside the factory, but I got some shots of the ladies cutting tealeaves. 

 

The tea fields are so beautiful!

 

 You can read about the tea processing in wikipedia here.

 The ladies where so happy, and gave us some shy smiles. We talked to them, or our guide translated for us, and they learned us how they cut the leaves. 

 

I am doing my best to cut some leaves, but I feel they manage the job better than me. Guess I would have use a whole day just to fill one bag.... And by effort gave the ladies some good laughs :)

After have tasted the tea, and walked around, we where heading back to Trivandrum. 

Playtime

My summer vacation 2010 was spent in India and Sri Lanka, here is a series of pictures taken of some of the children  we met.

We met these boys in a side-street in Thekkady, they where playing in the waters with some polystyrene and had a lots of fun:-)

Fun - Joy - Exitement - Happiness - Friends

Football is fun!