Category: Americas and Eurasia and Africa

As this post shows, our Dal Lake entertainment barge’s singer-dancer was a very effective encourager-teacher.

During the course of the evening, most physically-able-enough members of our party were coaxed onto the dance floor.

By 7.15 pm, as pictured above, the singer and dancer on “our” Dal Lake entertainment barge had already shown us that she was a capable and committed performer.

Relatively speaking, however, she was still in “low gear”…but only for another minute or so.

By the time it was fully dark outside – and we were well away from inhabited shores – our “party on Dal Lake” had become very exuberant.

At 5.36pm on 04 May 2024, we were on board a barge, in front of “our” houseboat.

We were about to head out into the quiet, unpopulated part of Dal Lake, well away from houses and houseboats.

Late afternoon light was flattering the houseboats that were directly opposite “ours”.

A few minutes later MV Bulbul (pictured in immediately-preceding post) would fire up, and begin to tow us, very slowly, toward the lake’s more “open” waters.

What was going on at 6.40 pm on 04 May 2024?

Why were we under tow, on the quieter end of Dal Lake?

Each image in this post is a candid portrait of a different individual.

All were at Dal Lake’s  Floating market, early in the morning of 06 May 2024.

More images of Dal Lake’s floating market…