Alpana Hotel Haridwar

Had Raj take me to Swami Ramdevji's Patanjali Yogpeeth centre which is just outside Haridwar. It's an impressive site with ell maintained garden areas and a modern suite of buildings.<br>On entering the main building it feels very much like a hospital and in many cases this is a hospital for the ayurvedic and yoga treatment of all sorts of conditions. It also has a huge amount of resource going ...

Happy Diwali!!<br>Woke up at 8am and decided it was a good day to do Ganga snan (bathe in the Ganga river) so I called Raj to let him know as we planned to meet at 9.30. He decided to come with so we headed across to Lakshmanjhula again and I had a bath in the Ganga river. It was not as freezing as I expected but still cold nevertheless.<br>Saw lots of monkeys around today. Exchanged the mp3 CD I bought yesterday as it didn't have all the songs listed on the cover ...

... didn't go for a swim but when the ceremony started 2 "priests" decided to lead us in knee deep to say some prayers... a lovely tradition of placing baskets of flowers with a candle is what is offered and of course we accept.. we didn't realise however that we would have to make a donation!!! I got a bit thick and explained to my wonderful priest that blessings should come for free ...

... This is when a good day turned slightly sour, due to the unwanted presence of India Scenesters. I dislike 'scenes' of any description and avoid them like the plague wherever possible, but in India it seems tough to escape the elitist traveller types who never stop ******* on about claptrap like 'Rainbow Gatherings' and how little they carry in their backpacks. There is a sort of competition on the go - who has the longest dreads, who has been to India the ...

... We had food all over, but our two favourite places were Flavors and TipTop. We had many meals at both and specifically loved the western sandwiches, pastas and fruit smoothies that Tiptop offered. Justin, Natalie and I spent a day hiking up to one of the highest peaks nearby, to a Durga temple that overlooked the hills, the Ganga and the plains. It was an intense 14km hike up steep gravely paths, and definitely took a toll on us, as once we reached the ...

(sorry am updating this from a while ago.. so may miss things out and will be in the past tense!!!) WOW!!!! The Holi festival was AMAZING!!! not only were we covered from head to toe in the brightest of colours EVER, but we also had the chance to fully bathe in the Ganges river along with everyone else. it was just amazing, even if it did happen all too quickly. strated off the morning by attempting to fill water balloons with ...

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... spirit and announced that we would wind up exactly where we were supposed to be. And here we are in a brand new, beautiful and quiet ashram with great teachers and delicious and healthy meals. Some of the ashrams we saw were definitely not our speed - especially the one with the mediation caves - dark dank and scary-looking halls resembling solitary confinement cells on Alcatraz. We've had days of good laughs about them, and ...

... yoga which Ananda offers to all of their guests. 7AM is for beginners yoga, 8AM was for advanced. Both were easy compared to the yoga I do in Hyderabad. Anyway, it was a beautiful setting to do yoga and there were peacocks roaming around the yoga amphitheater which make it even more beautiful. Breakfast was yummy...I had eggs and toast....Tanya had something else. Funny story...I had the exact same thing for breakfast all 5 mornings we were there ...

... for the cities on the Ganga. I was really glad to get away from damp Mussoorie for the weekend. It's a beautiful place, but my bed is always damp, there are giant spiders, and the food seems to upset my stomach (and 75% of my fellow students' stomachs). Not to complain too much about Mussoorie, which is beautiful and quiet and nice, but I was glad to get a break from the place and the 40 or so people I have spent the past 2 weeks with ...