Honeymoon Inn Mussoorie

... eat and browse in shops and seek out air-conditioned entertainment. I read a lot. I met not one other western person - Delhi's hustle and bustle makes chit chat difficult to initiate. I did meet a number of Indian people, most of whom were trying to sell me Kashmir tours, but a few who were just regular people looking for a chat. All in all, I enjoyed Delhi without actually doing very much at all. My last day here was my birthday. I am now 24, which officially makes me in ...

... it comes fully furnished, with a full kitchen, and updated appliances). So we won't have to worry about getting a bed etc. which is nice (because other people's apartments don't come furnished). I ended up meeting Ruskin Bond, I'll tell you all about it later. We're really excited about going to Delhi and getting settled!

... right in front of me, and he didn't fight, he just let the monkey have it. It was really odd. Also cows like to cross the foot bridge, which is awkward because then you have to get around them. Also little motorcycles like to cross over the bridges, which is scary, because it makes the whole bridge shake. We ate our meals at this little restaurant called Devraj Coffee Corner that was very Americanized. They had a pretty good spaghetti for ...

A further entry to May 26's brief pre-mortem entry. We spent the day at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy, and Mussoorie where it's located. After a tummy-hurling bus trip up the side of the Himalayan foothills, we arrived. I had true adrenaline surges if I looked over the edge of the cliffs as we went around the hairpin curves. I had a bracing position in mind, and I tried to tell myself that ...

... trying to design the perfect city but abandoned soon after his death due to water shortage - I think we were a bit on sught-seeing overload but it was still good to wander around the ruins and imagine the guy debating with his hired philosphers and pondering which Majarani to visit that night. After a curious couple of hours in the train station being stared at by 17 young men (Iain counted) all standing in a semi-circle we left Bharatpur heading for Jaipur.

... the power came back on for longer than two minutes, and we all go ready for bed and crashed. On Sunday morning, we decided to explore a couple of the famous Hindu temples of Hardiwar. We had read about the cable cars that take people up to the two best-known temples, located on hilltops on opposite sides of the Ganges. Our hotel happened to be really close to one of the cable car stations, so we decided to go over and see if we had enough time to visit both ...

Nachdem wir fuer unsere Wanderung zum Kuari Pass einige buerokratische Huerden ueberwunden haben (Wider erwarten ist eine Permit der Behoerde und ein Fuehrer oligatorish) fahren wir von Joshimath mit dem eep nach Auli -- im Winter wohl mit verm. grob 5 Liften dr groesste Wintersportort Indiens) und laufen los -- nach einer kurzen Halbtagesetappe mit fantastishem Bergpanaorma campen wir auf einer idyllischen Waldlichtung. Die Ausblikce, fuer die ...

So the urge to move on - further into the mountains - struck again. This time in the form of a bus headed to Mussoorie - a small high-mountain town where mists envelope the town at times and where the temperatures fall to just about freezing. The town is nestled in the saddle between two small mountains with views up into the Himalaya as they rise forever upward and turn into snow´covered giants. It's truly beautiful, and I am so glad to have landed ...

... to Joshimath the same day so that I could return to Delhi the following morning. The return journey was a long one with a waiting of six hours near Pipalkothi due to landslide; I reached Hrishikesh at around 10:00 and took the last bus for Delhi Today as I try debugging an Out Of memory Exception , I stop to think that some part of me is still exploring the wild flowers in the Valley , hypnotized by her magic ....She will always remain beautiful to the eyes of this solitary trekker. Sunny :)

... with open fronts). He then directed us up to our "apartment", further yet up the hill. What we found was very sobering. It was a barebones apartment with no real furniture except for bare matresses on bed frames. Very damp and musty. The power was out when we got there, but we were assured that we'd be provided with candles. The toilet also didn't work. We took a deep breath and decided to brave it. We left our luggage there and walked down to ...