Puri beach

Puri, a city sacred to Hinduism, home to an avatar of Vishnu in the temple of Jagannath, prohibited entry to Western visitors. The city leads to a long beach of fine sand but waves relentlessly and scorching sun. Until dusk falls, and then the Bengali holidaymakers are preparing to go to walk, barefoot, on the thin layer of water left by the retreating waves, and that reflects just a few minutes of agony, the last shades of pink from the sun in printing and dying to get rid of the clouds.