Clarke's Hotel Shimla

... Victorian mock-alpine fancies, theme park gothic, and modern concrete Indian all fighting for space on the cliffs. <br><br>The main attraction is the old Vice-Regal lodge - a very grand building built in Scottish Baronial style, with a neatly manicured lawn and tidy flower beds in really looks out of place in India. Build in the late 1800s - with ducting ready for electricity long before it came to India. The brief tour takes you to the room where ...

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... the 24 hour community kitchen located there offers food and shelter to all who come, from every walk of life. It was quite a humbling experience as we ate alongside thousands of visitors and hungry locals. Today we visited Jakhu temple in Shimla, the temple of the monkey god, Lord Hanuman. It was quite an experience and we're looking forward to the chance of getting to grips with yet another of the world's religions: Hinduism. Steve and Will

... the extreme humidity. I am talking steam bath humidity. Glasses fogged up fully when I walked outside. Beautiful lush grounds, huge leaved trees, vines, flowers, real palm trees with coconuts in them. As soon as we came in a storm blew in -- Horizontal rain downpour. Mid-day we hired a hotel car to take us sightseeing ...

... Shimla where I looked on in wonderment at it's lower level bazaar with it's monkeys and tradesmen and it's markets with it's fine Sari's and varied food. Day 3 in this fine country has found discovery, both of my course with Koenig and my tutor Durgesh and also of Shimla and its summer festival, it's beggers young and old (one of each), it's crazy drivers on the mountainous roads of this the state capital all trying to outdo each other. The weather ...

... eaten since my last meal on the plane. Perhaps I had had as much excitement as I could handle but I semi-consciously walked into a pizzeria and ordered a pizza and diet coke. How amazingly cultural I thought as I bit into a slice of vegetarian pizza. I ended up with a doggy bag only to end up giving it to the half naked street children who walked around on the sidewalk, occassionally making the mad dash through traffic to get to the other side ...

... I walked around to a small village where I was invited to a wedding. I had lunch with the people, took a lot of pictures and danced with them until I ripped my pants, no joke! The married couple had lunch with everyone, but they were not talking nor looking at each other. The bride always had her eyes down and wasn't smiling! After the ceremony, I walked with the people to the village. All of a sudden, everyone stopped and the bride started ...

... India We had nothing scheduled, and so by the time we got out of our room and onto the street it was time for a late breakfast. We wandered around for a while in random directions and we're met with quite a few surprises: e.g., there are very big sidewalks and people use them (at one point I saw a cop tell someone to get on the sidewalk), there are no tiny auto rickshaws, no cows (many dogs, though) the streets are ...

... ecclectic mixture of Indian plains tourists, Kashmiris, Nepalis, Sikhs, and local mountain folk, each with their own manner of wearing their hair, their beards, their jewelry, and other superficials and accessories that outwardly define who you are. We sat on a bench for several hours as the sun lowered in the sky and the waxing gibbous moon rose from behind Jakhu Hill. As my sickness waned, Kevin's waxed and our time spent in the ...