raiding the honey comb

there's a big banyan tree in my back yard, with an enormous bee hive very high up (at least 50 feet). now that spring has sprung, the guys who come every year to collect and sell the honey demonstrate their heroic skill smoking out the madhu makki (lit: honey flies) and stealing the honeycomb. virendra is behind me saying "chalein bea (let's go, get out of here)... oh no, i am standing in back of you... bea, i am fearing!" and after filming ceases, we have to run into the house to avoid the swarm. unfortunately, it's hard to see the thousands of them so high and far away with my crappy resolution, but you get the idea.

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Travel & Events

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• bees
• honey
• india