De Vivendi Resorts Manali

... good idea to take the paragliding cources here. He travels in the mountains with a motobike (500cc) and his paraglide - it works really nice together.
I returned to the Old Manali, taking a riksha.
At first I wanted to stay with Chabad folks, but the place was closed, so I went to the place Israely people told me about. It was a nice and quite there. I played a little with the laptop and went to sleep. Till 1:30 o'clock...

... first 50km were wet and covered in treacherous mud. The next 50 km I can only describe as never ending
potholes some big enough to bury your in-laws. The last 40km was covered in loose rubble and strewn with rocks - very dusty & constant rough vibration. I ended the day with extremely sore wrists & shoulders.

We stopped for lunch at the Check Post at Koksar, and ate in a neat stone hut with a tarpaulin roof, the only food on offer was Dahl and ...

... to find him still alive. In those three days, Ben--as usual--shat himself senseless, was dragged to the doctor by some Israelis, was medicated, and returned home...all for less than three bucks. Apparently Ben "had a fever, and the only prescription was more cowbell." This is pretty much standard travel procedure for Ben by now. This is his second major bout with anal furry in just four short months. He is actually getting sick again as i write ...

... picture quite quickly, but his general haziness rendered him blind to my boredom. I finished my drink and said my goodbyes. Didn't really feel like taking an 8 day trek up the mountains, and the lack of other people about, as Geoff kindly informed me that it was low season and they had all '****ed off to the beach', didn't enamor (there it is again) me to doing any adventure sports really, I haven't had the sudden urge to go rafting or kayaking whilst in Britain, and I didn ...

... an Indian guy, also on an Enfield stopped at the side of the road, I stopped to see if he was ok and it turned out I had already met him and had a chat to hi about a week ago. He was also heading the same way and was with three friend who had a car, he saw all my luggage and offered to put it in the back of their car, I in return put his 10litre petrol can on my luggage racks as it was leaking in the boot of the car and he didn't have racks. My ...

... I'll post it when I get back home. I can spare a few words on the landing though. I have often found it odd that we humans still have tail-bones. It may have some hidden purpose, but using it as a landing gear on a hard dirt field is not it. All this time I was afraid of dying, and the thought never occurred to me that breaking my tail-bone would be a lot worse. For those readers who are spiritually inclined, I want to advise against this method ...

... bridge. Down the muddy track through a mostly shut down Old Manali, I walked up the stairs to my old haunt, the Jungle Bungalow. It was here that I hoped to find Dayalu, my friend, and perhaps he could direct me to a guesthouse that wasn't all shut up for the winter, as his was closed down. Coming up the stairs I called out in Hindi, asking where my friend might be found. "Mata-ji," or "respected mother" smiled a broad Kullu welcome, bade me come up to the second ...

... a guy with a radio that he shared with us, and we tuned into the English translation, but it was really fuzzy and accented and basically I couldn't get more than individual words, i really had no sense of what he was actually talking about. So Britany and I got bored and went back to Mcloed-ganj. That night I took another night bus to Manali (I'm still here now). I found myself a hotel, and then went to a cafe called Dylan's, which is a really great place for ...

... ljudi, ki si nekaj zvijajo v cigareto in kadijo. Ob poti so bili tudi napisi, ki so vabili na zabavo, ki pa se odvija visoko v gorah. Takrat smo se se sprasevali, kdo hodi na zabave tako visoko v hribe - kake tri, stiri ure hoda iz mesta. Potem pa smo izvedeli, da je Manali raj za ljubitelje marihuane. Tu jo lahko dobite v kakrsni koli obliki, zanimiv in presenetljiv podatek pa je tudi, da 80 odstotkov obiskovalcev obisce Manali ravno iz teh razlogov. Popotniki ...

... a few places. We stopped at one place for tea, where they had a really long footbridge over the river, a bit like the Indiana Jones one, but wider and more stable (well that's what we were hoping). Soma and I went over to the other side to see what was going on in the little village over there, Gagan and Kaka were too scared, yep your read that right 'too scared' to cross over, what a couple of Larries. Anyway, there was a little shop on the other side where a ...