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Dharamsala Slideshow
Dharamsala
Travel Blogs from Dharamsala, India
Trekking Troubles
A photo essay about our trek into the Indian Himalayas! Just look at the pictures and read the captions. ...
Buddhist Philosophy for Atheists
... our 10 day course/retreat, and Sheryl is writing about her personal experience throughout all three sets of teachings in Dharamsala. After our two somewhat advanced Buddhist teachings in Katmandu in November and with His Holiness in March we weren't ...
Sleutelhanger hotel Dharamsala
Groetjes van Dharamsala, Mijn sleutelhanger voor hotelkamer dus ik kan jullie niet vergeten:-) ...
Meditating Compassion
... any photos for some reason...I'll keep working on this... A soup of spirituality: the Namgyal Monastery here in Dharamsala has been throbbing with circumambulators and long lines of monks. purification rituals consume the temple. We ...
In den Bergen mit Gautam
So, nun geh ich mal mit nem Eintrag in die Vergangenheit. das liegt daran, dass ich jetzt endlich mal Fotos hab. In McLeod Ganj, dem Ort, in dem der Dalai Lama seine Regierung im exil hat, hatte ich Gautam, einen Inder aus Bombay getroffen, der zur Zeit ...
Tatwhani - heiße Quelle
Der heutige Tag war eine Mischung aus Arbeit, Abwechslung & Abenteuer. Um 9:30 trafen wir uns gemeinsam mit Voluntären einer anderen tibetischen Organisation in McLeod Ganj um bei einem groß angekündigten Clean-Up mitzuhelfen. Zusammen mit ca. 40 ...
The Annoyances of Traveling in India
So, after the excitement of Amritsar, Ragga and I headed to Dharamsala, this time via bus. Well, 2 buses actually. The first bus started out fine, until it got a bit crowded, at which point we were forced to put our backpacks ON our laps. Not the most ...
1 week in
... with the group, instructors, etc. TOday is a silent day... so no speaking! A good opportunity to type! I arrived here in Dharamsala-Mcleodganj the day after the 50th anniversary of the Chinese occupation of Tibet.. so I missed the Dalai Lama speak. It ...
Dharamsala / Mcleod Ganj - The Buddhist Butlins
After a little R&R in Shimla we took our first overnight bus to head to Dharamsala / McLeod Ganj to hang out for a while with the Dalai Lama (Big D, D-Lo, Del boy.. whatever). Unfortunately the big man himself wasn't at home as he obviously ...
Exploring
Dank des schönen Wetters beim Abendessen gestern in Dharamkot, haben wir spontan beschlossen auf einen Bergkamm, welcher zirka auf halben Weg zu Triund liegt zu gehen. Der heutige Tag hat schon früh begonnen. Um genau zu sein um 4:30. Nach einer ...
Screw the cops, look to the Gods!
I am now among the few, among the many who have seen the Dalai Lama. The past week he has been giving teachings here. Dressed in a chuba, I attending one morning with one of my Tibetan friends, where we lined up and stood feet away from His ...
Tibetan singing and red eyes PART I
... the spring to brush our teeth together. There are around 20 students at the school, all of them are Tibetan refugees, who came to India to get an education. They're extremely dedicated and hard-working. They get up at 5 (!!!) every morning for an hour of ...
Sunday
... The staff taught us how to play Cricket and we had many water fights. Anil and G2, the two head managers of the CCS Dharamsala program, dunked me in the stream and I got completely soaked! It was so much fun! All the volunteers really bonded at the ...
A day in the life
... many of those songs just felt like where I am in my life right now and they were so fitting driving through India while I am on this journey. We got back to Dharamsala at 7:30 at night. Just in time for dinner, a shower, and sleep! So that was ...
Dharamsala McLeod Ganj
... I had read about the Norbulingka Institute. Upon enquiry, we learnt that it was not here, but in Sidhpur just outside Dharamsala. Off we went, having had more than enough of McLeodganj. It took a bit of asking to get correct directions ...
Free Tibet!!!
... . More than 250'00 Tibetan refugees have left their home, over the Himalaya to seek sanctuary in India, as the 14th Dalai Lama was granted asylum in Dharamsala in 1959. So we took the shared jeep up to Mcleod Ganj, and at the entrance to ...
Home of His Holiness
... out of Lost!) but thankfully we were on the right road and rocked up to the hotel around 11pm last night. *yawn* dharamsala is the home of the exiled tibetan government and also where his holiness the dalai lama lives when he's not travelling (at the ...
Dalai Lama
We went to Dharamsala, more precisely Macleod Ganj, to complete our Tibetan tour. When the Dalai Lama went into exile from China during the cultural revolution, it is in Macleod Ganj where he settled himself and his "government". The location is ...
Jon's Adventure in Triund
... that way each place will show up on the map. The last time we left you we were in our last 2 days up in beautiful Dharamsala and I assumed that I had summed up all that we did and anything that could have happened. However, in true Indian spirit, the most ...
Beautiful Himachal Pradesh
... and he knew all the routes very well. To be honest this is the place I would return back to if I was to come back to India. I was lucky with the weather too, as 15 days prior to me arriving in Khajjiar the roads were closed off due to severe snowfall. ...
Definetely, maybe....not possible
... basics. Otherwise I would definitely have been exposed as the fraud that I am. Finally, there is a hotel here called 'Hotel Pong View' which I pass every time I go to Dharamsala. Imagine a 'Hotel Pong View' opening in Glasgow. Possible or not ...
Cooking, Eating, Massages, Living The Rough Life
... , we may continue on to Central and South America but time will tell. We will continue to update the blog with our excursions back home and will get pics up from this last part of India in the next week. Hope to see you all this ...
Dharamsala
... nice place to be even if you aren't there for religious stuff. Then to the mandir, then up here to the dizzy heights of Dharamsala. I can see Tibet (or China, depending on your opinion) from here. View are incredible, and tha all for now. Have managed to ...
Trekking am Hausberg
... wir das Glück, nach zwei kurzen Pausen, um ca. 17:30 Uhr, als wir in Triund ankamen, eine wunderschöne Aussicht auf Dharamsala und die Umliegenden Orte zu haben. Gegen 18:00 Uhr ging die Sonne dann hinter einem Meer aus Wolken unter und wir genossen ...
Dharamsala and Mcleod Ganj
... email. Next on the agenda for the evening is a delicious Tibetan meal. More to come soon... On our second day in Dharamsala we started out with a trip to the Tibetan library and the seat of the Tibetan government in exile. Since we were ...
Dharamsala and McLeod Ganj
... the opposite side of the car and driving on the opposite side of the road. Our driver was terrific and we arrived in Upper Dharamsala safe, but a little weary from clutching our seats! We sat outside our room at the table and wrote in our journals, read ...
Tibetan Childrens Village
April 2 McLeod Ganj We're on a roll! The best part of the day was visiting the Tibetan Children's Villages located about 4 km uphill from this town. But more about it a little later. After a little breakfast this morning, we walked back into town to do ...