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In 2000 I fulfilled a promise to my friend Nagaraju to visit his native place, Konanki; Click here for pictures of this visit Pictures of my visit in 2000

The other pictures from 1999 and 2000 are from old sets of slides that I recently found.
I am not certain that the dates always correct. Please inform me of any errors

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1999 pictures    Trip to Hogenekkal falls in 1999    2000 pictures

.....................	1999 pictures    I could find very few old slides taken this visit
	Me at guest house and friend waving goodbye
	In the almost open-air lecture room with Biotechnology class
	Nagaraju and my ladies
	Walking past the guest house on the way home from the dairy farm from their duty in the Govindaswarmy temple
	Same
	Somewhere in Tirupati showing my four forms of transport: by walking, bicycle, rickshaw and autorickshaw
	The trade-Wings 'school' where my friend Surya was learning computing
	The virology department with the seven hills behind
	View of the hills
	With Surya in Mahabalipuram
TOP	Sunset

	Trip to Hogenekkal waterfalls withh Surya and friends Hogenakkal Falls is a waterfall in South India on the Kaveri river on the border between Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu and Chamrajnagar district of Karnataka. They are 125 km south of Bangalore (Bengalaru) and 310km South west of Tirupati. We drove there and back in a day
	On the journey (probably about 5 hours)
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		This image is from internet
	Lunchtime in the perperual spray
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.....................	Pictures from 2000    In 2000 I went to stay in Konanki. with my friend Nagaraju. To get there I first went to Vijyawada with Surya who had lived there for much of his life.
	Surya's family home in Vijayawada
	With his cousin at the house entrance
	All the family
	Alll the family
	With cousins
	Me with cousins
	The family
	Surya's friend
	Tirupati
TOP	The Guestline hotel where we went to use their swimming pool in later years

......................	Tirupati in 2000
	Chennai airport (Before 1996 it was Madras) viewed from the window of the Trident hotel
	The Trident hotel, 8 minutes drive from the airport and 4-5 hours to Tirupati in our Ambassador - hired by Surya from the Kalyan Residency Hotel in Tirupati
	The dining hall of SVU guesthouse, seen from my ground floor room
	View from my veranda of the road
	The seven hills and my favourite walking place
TOP	My village friend with his mates working on the dairy farm
	Rajiv Dixit and biochemists working on the ' Clean and Green' working day. Note the lecturers are atcing as foremen
	At home of Kiran (Steven) celebrating a birthday
	Kiran's father (Christopher Daas) and mother and the force-feeding of birthday cake
	Surya with Kiran on bike
	Suryas mum and a friend
TOP	Images at the fair