The last two afternoon have seen us with torrential rains! The monsoon has finally arrived, well it does for about half an hour and then back to cloudy days. There hasn't been thunder and lightening yet as when we first arrived but I am sure it will come. We want the rains now mainly to flush the little river that runs along the back of our apartment building. I am not sure if it is a natural river or an open sewer but if it doesn't rain and the water doesn't flow then it gets quite aromatic! More like the smells that physically reach up your nose and pull the hairs! Being on the 7th floor we seem to be above it most of the day. Anyway, the rains were lovely and it washed the streets and settled the dust and pollution. We were nice and dry in our car but there were lots of people, especially women on the backs of motorbikes that were drenched. The roads also flooded so getting home took a little longer than usual. Hopefully it will rain again and I will get some more photos. I am not sure if you can see detail on the blog but if you look closely at the front of the building you can see pale white stripes and this is the rain coming straight down.
The last two afternoon have seen us with torrential rains! The monsoon has finally arrived, well it does for about half an hour and then back to cloudy days. There hasn't been thunder and lightening yet as when we first arrived but I am sure it will come. We want the rains now mainly to flush the little river that runs along the back of our apartment building. I am not sure if it is a natural river or an open sewer but if it doesn't rain and the water doesn't flow then it gets quite aromatic! More like the smells that physically reach up your nose and pull the hairs! Being on the 7th floor we seem to be above it most of the day. Anyway, the rains were lovely and it washed the streets and settled the dust and pollution. We were nice and dry in our car but there were lots of people, especially women on the backs of motorbikes that were drenched. The roads also flooded so getting home took a little longer than usual. Hopefully it will rain again and I will get some more photos. I am not sure if you can see detail on the blog but if you look closely at the front of the building you can see pale white stripes and this is the rain coming straight down. 
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I forgot to mention that the building on the corner made up of blue and yellow tarpaulines is actually someones house. You see these everyhwere that there is a bit of spare ground. They will be just one room which will have a bed, usually a wodden frame and off the ground, where everyone sleeps and then against the other wall will have pots and pans lined up neatly and a small fire for cooking. If you look in duringthe day, the houses are very neat and everything, well their three pots and one blanket will have their place that they belong. There is a little side street that we use to access our building and across the road from that is a shanty slum of about ten tent/houses.
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