Indian Summer: Beat the Heat

Soak up the Sun this Spring-Summer. Enjoy snapshots from across India where tourists explore popular spots and locals throng lush gardens and beaches

Tourists at the Taj Mahal in Agra take umbrellas along to cover their heads from harsh sunlight. Pic: PTI Photo


Summer is here when you find eclectic shapes of earthen water pots being sold by the roadside; young children somersaulting into the pond to beat the heat and women covering their heads with large headscarves and umbrellas while shopping for summer fruits. Indian Summer is a beautiful time of the year. Take a look at how the mercury is rising in different destinations across India and locals are finding trendy ways to quench their thirst



EARTHEN WATER POTS: As mercury is soaring high around 40 degree, people in Surat are feeling very hot and trying to beat the heat. People buying earthen pots.




 TRADITIONAL TODDY FARMING: A Toddy farmer climbs Palm tree for collecting Palm Wine, very demand during the summer season near city outskirts in Visakhapatnam. Pic: A Sarath Kumar



AKILA PLAYS: Akila, a temple elephant of Trichy Thiruvanaikoil Temple, takes a bath in a mud pool to ward off insect bites as well as help the mammal regulate its normal body temperature on a hot summer day. (ANI Photo/ANI Pic Service)



TOURISTS LOVE INDIA: Tourists visit the historical Jantar Mantar on a hot summer day, in Jaipur. (PTI Photo)


What are your favorite summer moments?


 

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