Hilltone Resorts Manali

We,ve been pretty busy since last time. We travelled from Shimla to Manali, through the Kullu Valley, the Valley of the Gods. The scenery made the train journeys seem very tame. We were on the coach for 10 hours, but it felt like much less. An hour into the journey we had to make a pit stop in a roadside garage to have a puncture repaired. Just so happened to be a Kwik Fit at hand (see picture).
We arrived in Manali to be greeted by a happy little ...

Manali a small town in the lap of Kullu valley surrounded by lofty peaks with flourishing orchard, is a popular honeymoon destination and hub for numerous treks as well as a great countryside ideal for adventure sport lovers. Manali literally means the 'Home of Manu'. Manu is the mythological character who is supposed to have survived when the world was drowned in Flood. He then came to ...

... for Jon and Shayna, they are both here for another 4 months and getting in the groove of living and travelling in this unbelievable country. We will be travelling back to New Delhi for a few days to attend the concerts of our Guruji and then heading back into the mountains, to the retreat of Rishikesh, a popular destination for people from all over to spend time in the majestic mountains and study yoga, spirituality, and all sorts of worldly subjects. We hope everyone who is ...

... I have found in the quiet of Himalayas have been my favorites. When we got off the bus, I experienced quiet for the first time in a couple weeks. I hadn't realized how much I had missed it. We got a cheap hotel, and found a good "Mexican restaurant" that had really good, cheap, food, and was the second closest thing to real Mexican food that I've had in India. We stayed in Old Manali, which was a great decision. Old Manali is full of cool little ...

This has certainly turned into a bike-maintenance mission, that's for sure. But that's no matter for the person who has patience. Not saying I do, but maybe for someone who was it might be no trouble. Seriously though, I don't mind at all, there will be plenty of miles to cover whenever I get out of here. The Box Man hasn't been able to get the proper sheet steel to make the custom boxes for the luggage rack, I've had a decent hemorrhoid trying to get said rack ...

... into our pre booked cottage and were waiting for us eagerly. We were also by now tired of our long journey and were eagerly waiting for this long car travel to end. And we did, 20 minutes later we also checked into this beautiful cottage of ours. We now bid farewell to our driver with a lot of excess baggage and it was now sleeping time. I woke well past 4 PM and started to feel enchanted by weather. Frankly weather in Bangalore is very pleasant and ...

... shops for anything you could possibly want (you can't get much in Palampur so this was a treat), there was tonnes of silver jewellery and precious stones for really cheap prices, tibetan nuns and monks roam the streets looking beautiful and serene, there are other tourists so people don't stare half as much, and of course, most importantly, it is the home of the Dalai Lama. We went to see the main temple next to where he lives. I was embarassed to feel quite emotional ...

... things, it started raining like hell yet again. After a reasonably uncomfortable night and an early breakfast, on to the road to Manali. Fairly peaceful day again. Either we were used to the horrible roads by now or we were just too tired to notice :) The whole day was cloudy as hell and whenever we looked back, we'd see all these huge clouds gathering, especially over the passes and thank our lucky stars we weren't in the middle of that. Because of the ...

... rather useful catch and hurled it straight back at me..........no - I'm joking of course - the ashtray hit the target and they all scampered off. I kept both door and window firmly closed thereafter. The damp seemed a problem - but maybe it wasn't so bad, perhaps it was just the coolness and altitude that exagerrated the feeling for me. It certainly was cool - perhaps getting up to the mid twenties c in the day and dropping to low teens at night, I found myself with ...

... I am yet folk. It feels like I have been here months...been her 3 days...something about this place messes with your head...probably waking up and not having to do **** if you choose. Before I left, found out that the Dalai Lama would be in town for his birthday and today went to his first teaching, very ill prepared I must say--without FM radio to hear the English translation. We walked to the temple in a monsoon like downpour. We didn't ...