Hotel Ankit Palace Manali
Naggar Road Manali, Himachal Pradesh, 175131, India
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Above the "Trash Line"
... in. The day of our summit was socked in so we missed out on the epic views and the glaciers were covered with sheep **** (there's no escape from it in India), otherwise being in the beautiful valley with Travis, so close to the earth, was my heaven.
As I write this we are sitting in a coffee shop in Dharamshala, nursing our hangovers. Its the rainy season here now and the whole place ...
Old Manali, it is!
We woke up to a beautiful morning and headed for breakfast. We then drove down to Manikaran in our cars. While Manikaran was a rather dirty place, we explored Kasaul..which is known as the Marijuana hub! It was growing all over.. everywhere! Too bad I don't do it...
We then did some pretty awesome rafting-only me and Arpan did it.. and it was a great experience, one we always enjoy!
After that, comes the best part of Manali- Old ...
Rama's Head Massage
... Dylan café, tonnes of shops, sushi places even, and then high up; we spied another way to access our guest house, which was just a little down on the hill. The steep snowy mountains provided nice backdrops.
From our side window, lying on the bed, there was also one snowy mountain to gaze upon, on which Rosina discerned the giant face of a dog. Even more, this could be seen as a lions face. And near to that Rosina envisioned a giant horse face. ...
Solang Valley and 80's Ski-wear.
... villages which we had planned to do a couple of days earlier. A few phone calls later it was all arranged and OK and we jumped into our jeep with our driver Baggyrat who drove us to meet our guide in Vashisht where we would start.
Nandu introduced himself and we all packed food and water into our rucksacks for the day. It was only going to be a 5-6 hour trek so nothing too strenuous. Our first stop was the hot springs which are just on the edge of the street ...



