The Pyramids of Daund - made of bagasse (sugarcane waste), stored temporarily for the making of paper pulp
Bagasse in the monsoon, note how the colour changes from golden yellow to greyish brown
Yeah, we’ve been holed up for one year now, here in Daund, as of August 1st. Happy Daund Anniversary to us! Not that there’s anything exceptionally happy about being stuck here, doing 6 & a half days work a week from 7.30am to 8pm daily! With wife and baby stuck in a small flat the whole time, and usually turning grumpy by the time I get back home... What a life! Anyway, here’re the highlights ...of being stuck in Daund (make the best out of whatever you have, right?)
This place is an agricultural paradise, sugarcane, grapes, wheat, maize, millet, papaya, chiku, etc, ...but mainly sugarcane... it’s after all one of India’s main sugar producing area.
Fields of sorghum (front – green), wheat (middle – yellow) and sugarcane (back)
Means of transportation for sugarcane – bullock carts; and tractors with trolleys piled so high that if they hit an unlevelled patch of road, they topple – main cause of traffic accidents but who cares, sugar rules here!
Where clothes are washed – irrigation canals (if you’re lucky)
Wheat fields interspersed with ‘drumstick’ trees and red flowering plants (don’t ask me what they’re called, said to be of medicinal value)
Fields of some plant used for making natural fibres (nope, don’t know the name)
The same field at a later stage, full of yellow flowers (it’s not mustard – see previous post on Bharatpur – Apr 2008)
The general landscape in the area – boulder-strewn fields and temples on hill tops, this one at Warvand, on the Pune-Solapur Road
A well flanked by a Flame of the Forest Tree, Chaufulla, Pune-Solapur Road
Sunset at Malad, Pune-Solapur Road
Temple of the Tree, Kurkumbh, Pune-Solapur Road
Maharashtrian grape seller, Yavat, Pune-Solapur Road
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