On the way to Sarnath to see the Buddhist sites in India, we asked our driver to stop outside a village and let us walk through on our own, to interact with the locals. This is who we met.
December 9, 2011
Walking a Village
Posted by Lois Joy Hofmann under Travel and Adventure | Tags: family, India, life, Lois Joy Hofmann, Sarnath, travel, Viranasi, Walking a Village |[6] Comments
SailorsTales 
December 10, 2011 at 12:30 am
Having walked along Lois, these photos bring back good memories.
Inspite of the lack of “stuff” these people seem to live in a functioning society
where the family still plays a central role and nobody appears to be hungry and neglected.
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December 10, 2011 at 11:57 pm
Thanks for sharing your adventures with us. The photography is wonderful.
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January 12, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Lane, You are welcome! I always enjoy taking photos of villagers I meet during our travels.
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January 3, 2012 at 7:06 am
Lois, I’m really happy to come across your story and your great blog from the Gutsy Story contest. The writing and photos are wonderful. From the original story, I appreciate reading about how you kept going in pursuit of creative alternatives, despite many frustrating and overwhelming circumstances. Good luck with your book (and did your wish at the Ganges come true? Loved the pic of you putting flowers in the river ;).
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January 12, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Julia, thank you for your comments! My wish was for the coming year, so I won’t know until the end of 2012 whether or not it came true, but that’s a reminder to post a follow-up on my blog. I loved the tradition of putting flowers with a lighted candle into the Ganges!
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June 29, 2018 at 4:15 pm
[…] On the way to Mt. Popa and Table Mountain in Myanmar (Burma), a popular tourist site southeast of Bagan, our guide parked his car and led us into a small village where we walked among thatched huts, met villagers, and visited a school. We also walked a village outside of Varanasi, India. […]
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