A theme I worked on again and again, when visiting India and Nepal are the Hindu-monks, known as Sadhus. Meanwhile I have quite a collection of photographs ( slides as well as blck & white negatives ). Most of this pictures I took while visiting big festivals like Mahashivaratri at the temple of Pashupatinath / Nepal or the Kumbh Mela at Haridwar in 1998, when I spend more than 2 month there. The pictures of the Nihang, the sikh warrior-priests I took in 1999 at Anandpur Sahib, at the occasion of the festivities of the 300 anniversary of the founding of the Khalsa by Guru Gobind Singh the 10th and last Guru of Sikhism. The photographs of this slideshow are all done with analog equipment, digital SLR I started to use from 2003 / 2004 on.