More Durga

Last night I joined a procession bringing a Durga statue from the temple, around the whole town, to the water. It was nuts! These people know how to throw a party.

What the photos leave out here is the blaring music from the truck with many loudspeakers, the brass band and drums, and ear deafening pop of small bombs (don't know what else to call them - a kind of firework), smell of smoke, red paint all over my face and consequently on my clothes and camera as well (I was ambushed by a crowd of women).

It went on for 4 hours before I left. I'm sure they had another hour or two left in them.