Bienvenue à tous, Holà, Welcome,
But de ce blog
Des nouvelles de mon année de stage à l'étranger, some news from my internship abroad.
En français puisque des personnes des deux pays le consultent,
In English since people from both countries are reading it
A propos de moi
Étudiant a AgroParisTech en spécialisation gestion des milieux naturels ouverts et boisés, je passe l’année 2013-2014 a l’étranger, d'abord en Inde puis au Pérou. Cette année un peu spéciale s'inscrit dans mon cursus sous la forme d'un certificat crée il y a deux ans par l’école : Le CEI ou Certificat d’Expérience Internationale.
Plus d'espace sur ce blog
J'en ai crée un nouveau.
I have created a new one
http://cei-inde-perou.blogspot.in/

Amritsar during Diwali
The golden temple or Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar
It is the most sacred place for the Sikh religion in the all world. This place is absolutely amazing. We stayed there for hours and we were never bored.
India’s chaos doesn’t enter this temple even if hundreds of thousands people come in every day.
A 160 meters square made of white marble surrounds a lake, “the pool of nectar” in the center of which the golden temple stands. 4 main doors lead to the place, on each side of the temple, as to show that the temple is opened to anyone from any religion. Furthermore, it was built on the lowest part of the city so that everyone would have to go down steps to enter it.
Everyone leaves his shoes and socks outside the temple. They also cover their head. Devotees walk always in a clockwise rotation around the temple that is accessible by a unique bridge.
The bridge leading to the temple.
Inside the golden temple lies the Guru Granth Sahib, the holiest text of Sikhism. During all day, devoted music is played and sung inside the temple.
You can feel the devotion when you start walking on the marble. It is a really impressive and quite unrealistic feeling.
Inside the complex, there is also the biggest eatery in the world. More than 100 ...

Trek to Hindrahar pass
J'ai mis mon kilt pour la première fois ce weekend. C’était a 4342 mètres d'altitude au col d'Hindrahar (Indrahar pass), par -3 degrés Celsius a 7h00 du matin.
A l’arrière vous pouvez voir les chaines internes de l'Himalaya, Indrahar pass se trouvant sur la Dhauladhar range, une des chaines sud les plus externes de l'Himalaya.
De l'autre cote, au sud, c'est l'Inde et ses vallées.
J'habite en 1 (Dal Lake). Vendredi 18 octobre, a 5h00 du matin nous partons en direction de 2, Triund, et nous continuons jusqu’...

My work
Most people living in Naddi have a few cows and/or a few goats. They let them graze during the summer and cut fodder during the post monsoon months (October, November, December) in the fields and in the forests to feed them. This fodder can be grass, shrub leaves or tree leaves.
An Indian goat
Besides, they use a lot of wood as fuel to cook and to heat their houses in winter. This wood comes from the forests’ trees. This wood-cutting mainly concerns lower branches and is called lopping.
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The places where we work in Himachal Pradesh
Naddi and Dal Lake are villages up in the mountains.
My bedroom and Igor, my roommate on his bed in Dal Lake's interns' house.
Naddi's young kids' school
Almost all the streets of the village, apart from the main road, are like this one : small and made of concrete.
What I can see from my window : the valley
The Dhauladhars range (up to 5000 meters above sea level ) behind my house can only be seen in the morning when the sky is clear.
There are three other houses where interns work for the organization.
Maiti with its rice fields (paddy fields) :
Women carrying water next to Maiti's interns' house
Rice fields next to Maiti. It is always hot and humid so it always seems foggy.
Rajhol is a village with another interns' house a bit further down the mountain. There, the interns work in a migrant camp and try to create a garden and educate the children. The families living there own almost nothing, except a few tents.
Rachael and Miquel start playing games with the kids, teaching them numbers from one to seven in both Hindi and English languages. The children's mothers and behind them, their tents.
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- Thomas : Le kilt était dans le sac et je ne l'ai sorti qu'au dernier moment tkt. Super expérience oui dans l'article Trek to Hindrahar pass
- pasquale : Namaste ! ...super expérience et gros dépaysement non ? ça va te paraître plat la Lozère ! mai... dans l'article Trek to Hindrahar pass
- Thomas : Comme ca me fait plaisir. :) dans l'article Trek to Hindrahar pass
- Michèle Engles-Wersinger : Le rêve.....quelle merveille ! De la part de ta prof de l'époque où tu ne portais pas de kilt, m... dans l'article Trek to Hindrahar pass
- Thomas : I am not surprised about this very Isaac atitude ... drinking. I hope you will enjoy your few days... dans l'article First days in India
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