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Manali Slideshow
Manali
Travel Blogs from Manali, India
The hundred waves goodbye.
... . My german friends also waited at the same spot, so a few jokes and many cheap indian cigarettes later, finally a bus showed up. "Manali, this bus." Bid adieu to the fellows, and on the the steaming bus I went, climbing into my "sleeper" berth (about ...
Manikaran and Manali
... . We left our stuff in the hotel as we were going to come back through Bhuntar in the afternoon, before heading off to Manali. We left Bhuntar at 7.15am and went up into the mountains towards Manikaran. The roads were pretty bad and only wide enough for ...
Windy washing day.
I've been recuperating a bit today, sitting in the sun, eating what little I can, still making plenty of poo-pooja out of my hind end. At least no more fever nausea, or body aches. Still, I'm a bit weak and out of sorts. All day I've been afraid to ...
Musica
Don't watch this space... no police chases or midget tossing today. The main aim was to get a game plan, which we now have. Ads doesn't have the confidence in his bike to tackle the big stuff, which is understandable given its form, so unfortuantely he's ...
Yep...
Let's keep this brief... Ads' bike hasn't magically fixed itself. Suprisingly... it's still a bucket of shit. Riding in mud is fun, whether there's lots of it or just a "little bit". Warm beer froths up a lot... a concept which hasn't been grasped by ...
Fotos aus Ladakh
Da ich mich nun wieder in der "zivilisierten", sprich anstaendig vernetzten Welt befinde, hier ein paar Fotos aus ...
Back in the Himalayas
October 28th - Manali, Himachal Pradesh India Currently sitting in the Hotel Monalisa looking out on the almost Alpine scenery of the Kullu Valley and reflecting on almost a week spent in Dharamsala. To reach Dharamsala from Amritsar we first took a local ...
Back in the game...
... scenery. We ended up passing through a couple of villages and the reception was awesome. I've said it before, but the kids in India are one of the highlights. Regularly we'll ride through a town or village to be greeted by big smiles and waves... genuine ...
The DL
We got up early this morning to look inwards and hopefully cop a blessing. Tommy and I skipped breaky and got down to New Manali around 9 to visit old mate the DL. By the time we got there and they'd searched us (confiscating my rope I was going to ...
In the hills
... a precursor of things to come! Oh well... shit happens! Ahhh... puns are great... After breaky we packed up and started towards Manali, which is only just up the road. The scenery is getting more and more amazing every day as the mountains get bigger and ...
Charas &Chubas& Getting High On The Bus To Ladakh
... 4 days i think) and made it up there in time to hit up Stok Kangri and try to summit. Like Vashist, the villages surrounding Manali are hippie havens and are known for their cheap charas. Charas is the name given to hand-made hashish in ...
short and sweet
... for the Distict conference. They are gorgous. 2 are more casual. great for school. We are in a palace with the team leader for teh India GSE. WOW WOW WOW.. Oh, he hooked up Henna, and we (the girls) look great, very Indian. (did I mention that the ...
Of claustrophobia, green, and all things queer.
... so on and so forth. Priority for us: to get our bags from the back of the bus! 17th July 2003, 9 pm Hotel Beas, Manali. A Himachal tourism development corp. hotel. It has been a longish day. Bottomline: Manali is not where I wish to be. It is ...
Mananananali
More coming when i can be arsed to compose an epic entry. Im off to Shimla now not Leh, see the next ...
Rockstar bill!
It turns out Tommy is 'regular' as clockwork, if that's the right word... every morning around 6 he urinates, which is followed by a good half hour of coughing and farting, before he manages to get back to sleep. So, once again, i'm on the balcony typing ...
Flat
Looks like we'll be in Manali for a little while, for a couple of different reasons. First of all Leh and its surrounds are in a bit of a bad way at the moment, due to heavy rainfall and flooding - the roads and infrastructure are a mess and unfortunately ...
Manali
... from heaven arived on their Enfield asking for me to sell them some drgs - when i said i had none they offered o drive me to old Manali. The 3 of us sped through the town at 4am and i felt like i was going to die but i didnt (obviously) and they even ...
Efficiency in India, remarkable!
... spent the last few days cycling as we have a new adventure on our hands. Tomorrow Jamie and I start a grueling 540km bike ride from Manali to Leh along the highest road in the world! It will take us 10 days, camping overnight at heights of more than ...
puff the magic dragon
... mountain heights. I was glad to get out of the shimla tourist trap, it was like queenstown wwithout nightclubs and a lake. New Manali sucks, when the bus finally arived the touts stormed the bus chased it up the strrt banging on the windows like monkeys ...
Getting back to India
... so high and it's sometimes so narrow that I preferred to ignore it. They say it could be the most dangerous and hair-raising road in India, and it seems they are right. After 8 hours drive I've got to Peo. It's already dark here, and the town ...
bollywood
... come back in 4 days,,,, that was far too much Chennai for the Hotfields so we skipped out of Dodge, hot humping beefcakes, and hotter thrusting Spondoolys forever etched onto our brains. As Mel once said, India might be India, but it's still ...
This 'n' that
Not much to report over the last couple of days... still waiting for those stars to align. I'm starting to go a little stir crazy so I jumped on the bike and started cruising, heading north. The scenery is awesome and bound to get better and better. We ...
Update from Himachal
... my heart beating time with the thump of Rocinante's single piston, longing to put the miles behind us once again. I could stay in Manali for my whole allotment in this country, but there are new places to see, new adventures to experience, new people to ...
Back to India
... took a cab to Vashishat, hoping to find something there. Vashishat proved to be something in the middle between Old and New Manali. It's quite remote - only 3 km, but all the way up. Because there are some hot springs here, there are lots of Indian ...
Cruisin...
... out that the dodgy bastard in Delhi gave Ads a dud bike. Not only has he had clutch and gearbox issues, but the blokes here in Manali have also found that he's got a bent crank, which is no mean feat! The crank is diriving the alternator so that's wearing ...
Hamtomatopuram
SIZZLINGHOTFIELDS HIT MAMALLAPURAM WITH PMT....Look Out !!! Departing Chennai to Mamallapuram was the usual noisy hassle, drama and in the frying temperatures to escalate things. It begins with stepping out of the safe haven of the hotel with the ...
Manali - Himalayan Hippie Hangout
... ; For those of you who wonder where all the hippies have gone, we've found one of their secret or not so secret capitals: Manali, India. Perhaps they grow them here along with the apples and peaches in the orchards that dot the land, or perhaps they ...
From Leh to Manali
... his best friend, or something. Even when we passed the last pass the road didn't want to finish. Some ten kilometers from Manali we discovered that we were really lucky - a (rear) tire exploded loudly. Thanks G-d it didn't happen to us in the ...
Hardcore Russians
How pleasant it is to see a sunny day starting - lot's of positive mood, and pronto! On the way to breakfast i met again that drug-master - he's called Mango Baba. So instead of going down to the cafe, I find myself climbing higher and higher. He ...