HPTDC The Chail Palace

... flow. The woman who was working on me at this point didn&#8217;t speak a word of English but seemed to take her job very seriously. Once my oil bath was done my treatment was complete.<br><br>Mum had been getting treatment as well so the two of us left the centre after paying our fee of approximately $12 and headed for the lunch room, we had a $1 meal of vegetables, rice, daal and bread that gave us the energy we needed for a long day of shopping. When we were done we made ...

... he makes me sit, and prepares a cup of tea with ginger and lots of sugar. Then he starts preparing a dinner. As I mentioned there is no table in the house, so all the preparations are made while squatting. But it works well for Raj - he prepares everything: the rice (in a pressure pot), the dal, the cabbage sauce and even the chapati (there is no fridge in the room as well, so the food is always freshly made :). I feel idle and want to assist, so Raj allows me to prepare ...

... M*rtti on ühe str*teegilise det*ili m*inim*t* jätnud. Pär*st selle p*lj*st*mist edeneb üles*nne tunduv*lt kiiremini. Ühtl*si s**n kingiks "Te*ch yourself S*nskrit" õpiku, värske j* pühenduseg* :) Mõned tähed h*kk*v*d v*ikselt meelde jääm*. Kuivõrd kolin kirjut*miseks koridori istumisnurk*, s**n üksiti k* sõbr*ks mitme indi*l*sest turisti j* hotellitööt*j*g*, kes s*tuv*d v*imustusse sellest, et üks v*lge püüdlikult l*u* t*g ...

As unpleasant as a six hour bus ride sounds, the ride to McLeod was not that bad. The first half was spent trailing northwards through the Punjab which was pretty hot and unattractive, but midway we made it to Himachal Pradesh, the Land of the Gods and probably one of the coolest states in India. It's also our first "Himalayan" state, and puttering up and down hillsides we got our first sight of the mountains. Seeing them is everything we expected it to be-- they look like how ...

The Dalai Lama is home. It happened just today, and Kate and I would never have known if it weren't for ournew Australian friends. We met them a week ago in Lhomo's Croissant, and both parties figured we'd never meet again since, after all, we should by all arguments be in Zanzibar right now. Today we walked down to the Temple, where the monks run the best restaurant in town as a training ...

... in Hebrew. I finally broke yesterday and had a falafel while playing backgammon (shesh besh)...ahhh why not?<br><br><br><br>I think I'll stay here for a few more days, I'll wait until the higher up villages like Manali get a little warmer. I don't want 38 degrees but I'm not keen on 12 degrees either.<br><br>Things are good right here, right now.<br><br><br><br>Hope you're well, would love to hear from you!<br><br><br><br>Shanti, Shanti,<br><br>Yaeli

... it. We arrived towards the end of the tourist season, so many restaurants were closed, and the stores that were open tended to shut down around dusk. Kind of depressing, really. The Spiti Valley, where Kaza is located, is beautiful though, and similar to Ladakh, with lots of brown mountains, and a few trees here and there. I took a day trip to the Ki ...

Hi from Delhi I thought I had all my photo problems sorted out, but I guess you'll get this blog 'sans' photos. This is about my jeep safari from Shimla to Pin Valley, Jun 22-26. This is my 3rd summer of doing volunteer teaching for the Jamyang Foundation (www.jamyang.org) in the Spiti/Pin Valleys in Himachal State, northern India. Usually I go and return by the town of Manali, and over 2 high mountain passes. For a long time I had been wanting to go by the alternate route, but usually ...

... we began the hand-over-hand ascent of the valley wall. Some of it was a bit sketchy, but nothing overly dangerous. It was quite hard work though, with the day beginning around 4,200 meters (~14,000 feet) and ending at 4,800 meters (~16,000 feet). We took about seven hours to make the first day's ascent to our "basecamp" from which we would cross the pass. We were in a breathtaking spot, surrounded by huge ...

Greetings from Shimla in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, We have now escaped the heat of Rajasthan and are roaming around the mountains of Northern India. Shimla (or Simla as it seems to be pronounced) is an interesting city. It is almost completely European looking...a bit Dutch or Belgian so says Dave. It was really created (or enlarged) by the Brits starting in 1819...it first became a summer getaway destination but eventually because the Raj summer ...