Mandi
Travel Blogs from Mandi, India
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Holy Cow!
... in time to jump on a moving bus that was leaving early. This was our first opportunity to see the countryside. Journeys in India are slow, Mandi is only 140km away but it takes 6 hours. On average 25km an hour! Saying that, the bus drivers drive like ...
Ein kleiner Ausflug
... lebte, arbeitet dort als English-Teacher für Mönche in einem Monestery. Übernachtet habe ich dann in einem eher schäbigen Hotel in Mandi, direkt am Indra-Market. Heute bin ich dann um 7 AM mit dem Bus weiter über Kullu nach Manali gefahren und sitze ...
Day Trip
... a nice Tibetan shopkeeper. With the Aussies and having a great time here in the Parbati and Kullu valleys. surrounded by the awesome Himalaya. Mandi isn't so bad really, and the cricket is fun to watch. After Mandi we're off to McLeod Ganj near Dharmsala. ...
Shakra Rohanda Mandi Jogindernagar
... is not feasible to explore the Janjehli valley from Chindi, much better to stay in Janjehli for that. We decided to go towards Mandi and Jogindernagar next. We had to pass Pangana again, being the better of the two roads to Rohanda ...
Getting out of Minali round 2.
... I had expired our repertoire of bike accident jokes it was time to jump aboard our mechanical mares and finish the ride to Mandi. Known touristically for the 81 stone temples that line the river banks it is most definitely not your standard ...
Jokes from the Maharajah
... - the Raj Mahal palace. A pleasant - if slightly run down place - however it is owned by the Maharajah of Mandi. Dusty guns and swords hang from the walls, the food is lovely the the elderly Maharajah chats with guests over dinner. Cambridge ...
Slow going!
... it, after not long, there was only about 50km left, the way my luck was going this could take a couple of hours and it was now dark and raining so decided to call it a day and stop in Mandi which was used to be a trading stop on the old salt road to ...
Oh Mandy!
... on the "deluxe" bus to Mandi and some psychotic driving from this young arrogant driver, we arrived at Mandi's disorganized bus station. (India is just organized chaos). So we packed myself, Janet and David and all of our stuff including David's ...
Auf Besuch bei Hindus, Buddhisten & Sikhs
Nach einer sehr Ereignissreichen Woche hier in McLeod Ganj, sind wir am Wochenende in Richtung Mandi aufgebrochen. Genauer gesagt nach Rewalsar, das ist ein Ort, ca. 25 km von Mandi entfernt der für Hindus, Buddhisten und Sikhs eine Bedeutende Rolle ...
The Sacred Rewalsar Lake
... two guys threw our backpacks in the back of a jeep and we headed out. Rewalsar Lake is about 24km (around 15 miles) southwest of Mandi. The drive there goes up a narrow, winding road on the side of a steep hill. It was actually kind of scary at times ...
paragliding pics
Hi all, finished my basic course yesterday, and i'm now able to start, fly and land a paraglider all by myself (ok, given the weather conditions are good ) I have a day off today, since my whole body is sore from 5 days of towing my fat ...
some pictures plus the paragliding course
Hi all, today was the second part of my paragliding course, and today was also the day that i had my first 40 second flight! Man it was awesome!! The other thing that i'm happy about is that everybody on the field is making compliments over my progress, ...
Tibet... removed
... here, good luck finding it anywhere. After Daremsala, we went back to Delhi where we met up with a friend who runs India's largest Non-Profit Organization. This organization is incredible. It has over runs 17,000 projects and all seem deep-rooted in ...
Chandigarh to Bilaspur 140km
The weather conditions are hot and humid (40C 40% humidity), which makes for very uncomfortable riding, but today we headed into the Himalayan foothills and it started to cool down. Today’s riding, Fantastic, anyone who loves riding has to do a ...
Hot springs and strange gods
We wanted to take a trip further into the Himachal Pradesh countryside, decided to go to a place called Tannipani. A full 3 shaken hours later we arrived to a very hot place on the river that at first sight was a bit of - why did the lonely planet ...
punjabber!
... a female escort . I aske some guys if it was possible to go Dancing unchaperoned any where , and they replied "Gee man this is india , not Bangkok". God I only wanted to dance with them, not deflower young fragile sikh brides. Oh well I had my fun in goa. ...
still in solang valley
Hi! Guess it's time for another update, altough there hasn't been much changed; am still in the Solang valley area, cause i'm still enjoying it. Found a nice little spot with a great view over the valley and the mountains, know where the good places are ...
hi!
hello to you! Well, you're not gonna believe it, but yes, am still in Vashisht/Manali, looks like i can't get enough ot this place! Still flying, (getting the hang of it, flew for 25 minutes yesterday, and 40 minutes today, instead of the ...
And he's down!
... by following the Parvati Valley, then backtrack the way we'd come from Shimla a couple of weeks earlier, before heading west towards Mandi. The roads were twisting and turning, up and down, but nothing out of the ordinary. We were setting a pretty ...
Kali, marriages and holy water
... terrace of a Buddhist temple, underneath a huge statue of a holy man who is credited with spreading Buddhism outside of India . Monkeys are as unpopular as ever here, there are hordes of them running around irreverantly asking for food. ...
motorcycle ride thu the villages
... motorcycle. We passed thru many villages and it was an opportunity to see the poverty aswell as the tourist spots in India. There is a hugely uneven share of wealth in India and wherever you see a luxury resory or mansion, across the road ...
Mountains, Hairpins and Bush Camps
... at 6 o'clock I invented my first cocktail - Barcardi, lime juice, mango juice and soda water - ice would be good but not in India! Name - it is a Co-Driver of course. We did make these in Jaipur and I really like it - so did our driver and ...
Jul 10, 2011
Mandi
... the bus to Mandi. Sharing a room with an Isreali couple was fun, and spending an evening with them an Austrian guy who was quite interesting - he was motorbiking around India for a few months. Big white dreadlocks not so usual for the Austrian's I've ...
Mandi
... and his first time to my hometown in Himachal Pradesh. Between travelling non-stop for the 2 weeks between north and east India, a wedding reception, meeting lots of cousins/aunts/uncles and other long-lost relatives (he hadn't visited in over ...
Mountains Galore
... . He had a guesthouse already so we settled in quickly and enjoyed the mountain air! This place is part Tibet, part Nepal, part India and just amazing! The views are unbelievable, the vibe is chill and the weather is ideal at this time of year! We ...
Camp Bollywood
... (ahem), but still there was something fairly incongruous about sitting around a campfire by a river in a remote part part of India listening to Bollywood music blasting over a loudspeaker. Luckily, the dance party ended fairly early, and us old fogies ...
up in the hills
... morning i started to meet some friend of theirs, lot of interesting characters, espacially a german who has been living in india for 4 years follwing akrishna guru and who has alreasy turned nearly completly into an indian, talking with an inindian accent ...
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