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the family tradition is taking pictures of people pointing.....
taken on our crappy disposable underwater camera back in September
Raja is involved an an elaborate chemistry experiment, combining his Sprite with the standard Tibetan table condiments. More importantly, he is involved in his favorite hobby: trying to convince everybody else that this is actually a good idea. Vik and Ritu are, of course, totally unimpressed.
Vik: "Dude! You just wasted it."
Raja: "Shut up man, it tastes good! Just...just try it and see."
We were really hungry and ordered way too much food at this restaurant but it was so good. I love Tibetan food.
Some pictures I took of Vik and Jane as a second shooter for the super talented Sarah K. Chen.
Hey Sarah, I had a great time and learned a lot. Thanks.
This town sits directly beneath the Mýrdalsjökull glacier, which is on top of the Katla volcano. When Katla erupts, and it's already several decades overdue, this town will be obliterated. Residents receive regular evacuation training, and it's believed that the town's church, on top of a hill, is the only building with potential to survive. There are also webcams all over the town, because people are quite cruel like that. If the volcano erupts, the people only have 15 minutes to get out because the volcano would cause the glacier to melt, causing flash floods.
Katla has been showing signs of unrest for the past 10 years. In the past 1000 years, every eruption of Eyjafjallajökull (that one that went off last year) have triggered eruptions of Katla. The discharge of an eruption in 1755 was estimated to be equivalent to the combined discharge of the Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze rivers.
Katla is 10 times more powerful than Eyjafjallajökull. The last eruption of Katla extended the southern coast by 5km. Currently, it is experiencing the longest period without an eruption ever.
Here you can see the winter pens where the sheep are held during the season. Outside of winter they are allowed to roam free and graze.
Family farm where we rode horses. Glacier and mountains to the north, the black sand beach and Atlantic behind me to the south.