A Bus By Land, A Boat By Sea In Ethiopia

January was high tourist season in Ethiopia and buses crowded the popular sights. Sometimes a little boat was needed to get you where you were going. By land or sea, something worth photographing.

Tour guide among buses at a lunch place.

Local bus stop. Stopping in a field. 

Waiting for the ferry.

You were expecting something bigger? Laundry in the river.

Laundry on the hill.

Doing Laundry On Lake Tana, Bahirdar, Ethiopia

It's a lovely morning on Lake Tana.

So it's time to do some laundry.

Not just clothes, but also bags.

Watching over the scene.

Boys getting clean.

Laundry Day (Everyday) In Varanasi

The Ganges River in Varanasi can clean everything. Bring your soul, your beliefs, bathe, cleanse and be blessed. Then get back to the mundane and clean your clothes.

These three guys are paid laundry workers. A stone, some water and soap, and you're in business. You provide the shoulder grease.

A woman hanging saris. On second thought, will my clothes be cleaner or dirtier?

More saris laid out to dry, creating a staircase rainbow. Beautiful!

The full array of laundry drying. Sheets, saris, jeans, no wonder the man in the center is taking a break. Two women being their own clothesline.

Portrait of the laundry man.

Airing Your Clean Laundry At Kumbh Mela

You travel to the Kumbh Mela, you bathe, you hang out for weeks, you've got to do laundry. Clean body and mind, clean clothes. The bright colors and beautiful patterns of traditional Indian dress make a utilitarian activity like clothes drying look like a celebration.

A typical scene outside a tent, laundry hanging. Can you spot the woman doing the hanging?

A couple more shots of hanging laundry to dry, seeking any suitable support, from a fence to a car.

Saris laid out after bathing. Once you see the simple strips of fabric stretched out in the sun, you then understand how this basic form of dress dates back centuries.

If you want to keep your sari off the ground, you tie an end to something and then act like your own clothes line pole.

More sari drying, in disciplined formation.