Heevan Resorts Srinagar

Very late start today (you know how it is when you're warm in bed and it's cold in the room...). Got ready having to wear the same clothes (eugh!). Decided to brave Srinagar on my own today so headed out and thought about catching a local bus but the destinations they were shouting out meant nothing to me so instead flagged down a tuk-tuk (rickshaw). I managed to negotiate a price for having him as my driver until 7pm and then headed to Chashmashahi Moghul gardens. It was on the ...

It takes my maximal determination to get up at 6:30 and take a ride to the gompa. I get there by time - seven - and then it proved that the morning pray is at 8! Well, at least I have sometime to take pictures of the local dawn and the young monks coming down from the monastery to the praying hall. But first they prepare some sort of breakfast - a milk tea with butter and with some sort of powder. It's cold in the morning, I wear all the clothes I found, and I hardly understand how do the ...

... The serpentine started to become more casual and less asphalted from one hand and more perilous from the other. Needless to mention that it was all remarkably beautiful around. The mountains I was approaching, the valley I was leaving, the perspective that was opening. There were road-stones every kilometer - there were some 10 left, but the progress was very sluggish. I also was fighting all the time with the klatch of the Vespa - the gear wasn't really in perfect condition. <br ...

Öösel on palav. Õnneks ei andnud ma järele soovitusele, lisaks magamiskotile veel ka kaks tekki peale võtta.<br>Hommikusöögiks lõputus koguses khambirit - Ladakhi leiba. Moosiga.<br>Rahakotti on paraku jäänud ainult viiesajased, seega arvestan juba õhtul võimalusega, et tagasi pererahval anda ei ole. Seetõttu olen ka rõõmsalt nõus, kui pakutakse kaasa pack lunchi. Siis on ikka nagu lõuna ka. Pakilõunaks saan endale ise veel moosi khambiri peale määrida. Peremees m ...

... l mägedes on eriliselt kaikuv ja jäme.<br>Laskumine on järsk, osalt mööda lahtist kiviklibu ja liiva. Päris alla jõudes näen üleval kurul kolme kriipsujukut. Tore, nendega on kõik korras ja õige tee leitud.<br>Hemis-Shukpachu tundub olevat väljasurnud. Küla peaks kirjade järgi olema senistest suurim, vähemalt kolme külalistemajaga. Majad on küll, aga mitte külaliste omad. Inimesi pole üldse näha. Tuul muutub järjest tugevamaks, kõht on tühi, jalad ja õlad väsinud. Näen põllul ...

... him and get Tag Team back together again.<br>Here's where the fun starts. This piece of **** travel office is supposedly buying my ticket to Srinagar for the following day. I sat in this f'ing office, sweating my ass off until 2am. Why........couldn't tell you. At one point I started yelling at one of the dudes to call me a ******n taxi so I could get the **** out of there - in which time he responded ask your driver to do it. My f'ing driver had dropped me off at 830pm ...

... lives had remained the same. At the end of an amazing day on the lake I enjoyed my first amazing sunset on the lake relaxing on the balcony of my houseboat. The houseboat had two bedrooms and I also had company for the evening. Dhura and his wife, from ...

... There are about 300 left and most of them are now used as hotels, a few as shops! It was very quiet and peaceful on the lake. I went on a boat tour twice. Once just around the channels and the second time to see the small vegetable market at 6am. As soon as I touched the ground I was harassed by everyone! I did go to a mosque and 2 gardens. At one of the garden I had fun getting my picture taken with some local ...

... century Moghul Shalimar Gardens, a fabulous place to watch people: families picnicking beneath the shady trees, young couples taking romantic walks, schoolkids splashing one another from fountains, bright saris dazzling in the intense sunlight. Quite how much we were being watched ourselves brought home just how few tourists have visited Kashmir since the conflict began (60,000 people dead in the ...

... July Permit applications successful, we left on Saturday for a night in Dha. We were at the bus stand an hour early to get a seat; even then only the unpopular (read no suspension) back seat was available. Where else in the world can you reserve a seat by dumping your bag on it, go off for breakfast and come back an hour later to find both bag and seat are still yours? Of course, before the long bus trip a toilet was needed, and of course there were no toilets to speak of. We ...