White landscape - Yanaimalai

No snow here at 45°C in this quarry of the Elephant-Rock visible from Madurai at 12 km. From this quarry, the famous hard granite stone is exported all over the world. In this stone you find an incredible variety of colors from white like marble to rose up to black.
Here you see a man running after this bullock-cart with a stone to block it from going down hill.
It's really like an oven here full of white dust, only local people can cope with this heat.
Feel the heat !

Kanniyampatti at dusk

I do regret a bit not to have accepted the invitation to stay the night over here in Kanniyampatti, wondering how this farmer village between the mountains would be in the morning light.
I was already spoiled with this spectacle by sundown at 17:42 that I tried to hold on to with HDR-technique overlay from RAW maintaining the soft warm impression here.
Mosquitoes came in swarms on the party, so it was maybe wise to return to my mosquito-net in spite of the risky drive with the motor at night.