Honeymoon Inn Shimla

... off the Air conditioning system. I believe he did so to save fuel or increase power. As soon as he shut it off , the interior temp would climb immediately. Barb and I would open windows to cool off. Since the roads are only one lane wide, there are two dirt tracks on either side of the road for vehicles outboard tires. These tracks are used constantly as vehicles pass each other, or as the encounter each other along the road. As a result of this ...

... then to Kasauli.


We stayed at the Hotel R. Maidens which has got a beautiful view of the mountains, rooms with porches and fun companies of monkeys. It’s a very peaceful and relaxing place.


If you are going to visit the Hanuman Temple on the Hill please don’t take your cameras or mobile – the army won’t let you in.

On the 10 hour bus from Reckong Peo to Shimla, I got off on the 10 minute break to have breakfast. When I got back on someone had taken my seat so I sat next to someone who insisted I go back to my original seat. He even told the ticket master so that guy was forced to get up. This was lucky for me because a really nice guy sat next to me. We talked most of the ...

... at Shimla he shook my and hand said 'don't forget me'.

It's alot cooler up here- thank God! Saying that, it is still over 30 degrees centigrade. I got a sherper for a quid to carry my backpack up the hill to the centre of British India's old summer capital. Once checked in to my hotel I had a walk round the town. It's like a colonial alpine resort, a very strange combination that is ...

... s komen en spugen en roken is ook verboden. Verder worden er alleen maar papieren zakken gebruikt en geen plastic en deze stad is dan ook aanzienlijk schoner dan de meeste andere steden. En het is hier koud!! We hebben al meteen een warme wolle trui, wanten en een muts aangeschaft. Deze zullen we de komende tijd hard nodig hebben aangezien we nog anderhalve maand in de bergen zullen zijn. Eerst nog twee weken hier, waarvan 10 dagen in Kashmir, en daarna een maand in Nepal. Het ...

... Gandhi made regular trips here and the whole plan for separation (India - Pakistan) was thrashed out here. The grounds are expansive and woody, overlooking the mountains. Hey! Guess what?! NO FORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aren't you all pleased to hear that??! We walked down 'the Mall'. Blindly thinking this was a Mall that would house big shops and a McDonalds (!) we were instantly thrown into a 4-mile stretch of winding road, edged with a ...

... steeply and rapidly) from the ridge itself, on either side, you are in narrow bazaars with dogs eating trash and homeless old dudes peeing and/or bathing themselves next to cows and piles of ****. Somehow, neatly at the top of a hill, England managed to create a piece of their beloved decorum that has been preserved a half century after they left. On my second stay in Shimla I decided to give myself a treat after a horrible bus ride back from the mountains (next post). I ate a Domino ...

... tourists (mostly domestic) who are leaving cities and going to a particular tourist destination. These are so much more expensive than the other options, while still being so affordable to anyone who ever held foreign currency in their hot little hand. They are just hard to get, as you need to be at a particular city going to a particular city. So, as we tried to arrange a bearable form of transport to Kalpa from Manali, we realized that our only option was ...

... I'd developed a throat infection and was quite ill but Annette and the others hiked up the mountain to a monkey temple. Lots of monkeys here by the way. Even though I was ill it was still nice hanging around the town without any hassle, beautiful place. I would probably have stayed longer to recover if we hadn't already bought train tickets. Caught the Toy Train back down the mountain, it goes through 102 tunnels, then a sleeper back to Delhi.

... Due to us being clean living types he found nothing and sent us on our way, not before his coleague give my inner thigh a good squeeze when i sat back in the tuktuk of course, some of the local customs in this place(where homosexualty is illegal no less) confuse me! I still couldn't sleep even after beer and got about half an hour in before we got up at 5 to drag our ***** to the train. I wasn't worried though as we'd paid for 1st class with bunks. After 2 hours in the ...