Annex Hotel Dharamsala

Ieri mattina alle 6 sono arrivato a Mcleod Ganj, residenza del Dalai Lama e sede del governo tibetano in esilio. Diluviava quindi i miei giri sono stati decisamente rallentati, ma ho recuperato oggi. Ho passato la mattina qui e il pomeriggio a Dharamshala. I due piccoli paesini avvolti nella nebbia hanno sicuramente il loro fascino ...

... and several cars heard as walking around town....I hear...."You're beautiful, your're beautiful...." AARRGGGGHHH!!!!!!! Surely his holiness has to be informed about this and made to stop this grievous noise pollution..........<br><br>New idea for local tourist board.....Come to Dharansala and laugh at all the people who have been in India waaay too long than is good for them. It's fun trust me:-)

... 100 monks. The prayer flags were strewn out in the neighborhood.The Dali Lama was not in town. He had just left for the US (and the UN I imagine) You will have a better chance of seeing him than we will. <br><br>The Monks were dressed in dark red robes. the older, more senior Monks seemed to sit closer to the image. They were chanting in very low tomes, a slow and rhythmic chant. Periodically, two Monks on the edge of the cluster would lift ...

... next to us. It was however, the part where we rode up into the mountains. The road was a bit scary, although quite scenic, and we somehow didn't crash!<br><br>We eventually made it to Dharamsala, caught a third bus to McCloud Ganj (where the Dalai Lama lives...just a few kilometers further up the mountain on an even more treacherous road), found a lovely hotel for the evening, and were able to relax and enjoy the fresh cool mountain air. <br>

... more than a few steps when she returned and resumed staring at me. Then she poked me, again! And there we stood for a good minute poking back and forth until we both started grinning and she ran away again and I went home. It was good fun. We have Mondays and Tuesdays off so I went with seven friends for an Indian road trip! Now an Indian road trip is not like other road trips. Indian roads are used by monkeys, cows, walkers, bikers ...

... the room went silent and the screen said "Breaking News, CNN has just projected Barack Obama the 44th President of the United States" AHAHHHHHHHHHH we all screamed and jumped up and down. Some of us crying, some of us in complete shock, but all of us were just soo happy. Best day of our lives. Word can not explain the emotion that ran through me. I was just so proud to be an American. Being in India when such an important thing was happening at home made me feel really ...

... share with you. Last night I finished my Tibetan Massage Class. It was a five day course, two hours a day. I now have my certificate as a Tibetan Masseuse(sp?)!! The course cost 1500 rupees, or about $38. I will only charge you $40 for a one hour Tibetan massage when I get home!! I had got a massage from the teacher's wife my first day here and it was amazing!! I have some lower back problems and my back definitely improved after the ...

... to do it, even though she'd watched me try and dance and fall over for nearly 2 hours. So we started to swirl our hands around our head and body, with candles in our palms (and they were a light!) needless to say i dropped one candle and burnt the hairs off the back of my hand with the other candle!! So if your having a party and need some entrainment... give me a ring, i might not be able to belly dance but I'll certainly make you laugh!!

... cosmic yoga and mediation guy whose a spit fire with few boundaries or constraints. In his early 50s there's no sign of slowing, direct but kind and always fun, ready to make friends with anyone at any moment he can belly laugh all night at a party with people he just met that day and he can meditate, as he does every morning at sunrise, as deeply as the surrounding Himalayas are high. And Ness short for Vanessa who is a treasure. Tall ...

... bit where there was a really narrow ledge which was icy so it was easy to slip, and there was no safety net or anything! We climbed a further 400m (vertically) so we got to 3.2km. When we got to the top it was a great feelin. And we saw a Tibetan monk meditating which made it even more worthwile. But then I started to think about the journey back down! We had to walk down the same path as we came up, and its harder to go down than up, or ...