Early morning at the airport

It’s 6 a.m. at the Indira Gandhi Airport in New Delhi. We are drinking coffee from Costa Coffee after going through security for our flight to Leh on Kingfisher airlines (owned by the same guy who owns Kingfisher beer). At security women are checked by a female officer in a curtained booth. Men are checked in front of everyone, just like at home. (Indian women must be very surprised at how they are treated in the United States.)

Judy says she would comment, but it is too early to think.

We spent the evening at Hindu temples yesterday. One temple is devoted Hanuman (the monkey god who is associated with courage) and Shiva (the god of creation and destruction), the other to Shiva alone. We received a blessing from the priest devoted to Hanuman that included sacred oil on the forhead, a flower and a sweet. Several children received blessings ahead of us. The priest placed a necklace of marigolds around the neck of one little girl. Men played music in the section of the building devoted to Shiva. (And other things were going on that I will go into later because I have only a few minutes left before our flight boards).

The second Shiva temple was built by South Indians. There, we saw the evening puja.

On the way to Leh, we are going to be sitting in window seats on the left side of the plane in hopes of catching a glimpse of K2.

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