The few snippets below are taken on a bus from New Orleans Airport to Camp Hope.Please excuse the reflections and blurriness in some of the pics =) (they were taken on a bus ride !)
Welcome to New Orleans, the Southern 'French' land below sea level. (literally speaking)
The city, where Donald Trump wants to build his mega-size tower
A typical road junction
The hardy oak trees that still stand strong after the flood. It is rumored that a few of these trees have been here for over 300 years !
One of the many mansions that house famous celebrities, authors, poets, actors and actresses.
The oldest road-based tram in the world. It was built in the era before horse-carriages were invented.
A church built many centuries ago that somehow mimicked the Fine Arts Library at Penn.
Another humongous mansion that is converted into luxury apartments.
If you watch the video posted in the previous post, this is the iron bridge that became the people's savior during the storm. The land here are a few meters below sea level. If you look closely, you'll see the levees on both side of the canal. When the Katrina hit NO, it broke the levees along the Mississippi river and flood the whole city for weeks.
Cows grazing in St. Bernard Parish
Since water needs to flow through the city, they even built canals next to people's home.
View from Camp Hope, the base camp for Americorps in NO.
Bunk beds in my room. It smelt like IKEA =p (prob because of the pine wood)
The few 8-legged bugs that went missing in the camp !
View from the entrance of Camp Hope. We got to use the army suburbans during our stint here.
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