Hotel Asian Plaza Dharamsala

... avoue que mon genou gauche déjà un peu fragile en souffrait quelque peu le soir. Après de bonnes 6h de marche nous arrivons à Bagsu, un village à la même hauteur que McLeod à 2km de distance. Nous passons par une superbe rivière avec des petites cascades. Plein de gens qui s’y beignent, s’amusent et se détendent au bord de l’eau et d’une quantité incroyable de déchets!!!! Quel gachi pour ce bel endroit!

Le village en soi est prèsque aussi ...

... Dr is free, you just have to pay for the medicines. I think a month supply cost me about $6. Some of the Ayer-Vedic doctors were free. One of them charged $12 for a full consultation. The Ayer-Vedic medications ranged in price from $0.50 to $1.30. The Western doctor cost about $6 for a consultation , a blood test, and a follow-up with the doctor (I paid just as much for the taxis to and from the hospital as I did for the appointment!) and the hospital was lovely-very ...

... Autonomous Region). On the bright side, there is lots to see in Nepal and after classes I will be staying there for my month long research project. I will be studying Dakinis or Khandros, aka sky dwellers which I will write more about later. Tomorrow I leave for a short 3 day village research excursion to Bir with 4 other classmates before heading to Delhi for one day then onto Kathmandu. I want to again thank everyone who leaves me posts, I so enjoy reading them. Happy Losar!

... been inside a refugee community before and it is all very political and active. I shall be doing some conversational english lessons with monks who have fled Tibet. The idea is that you talk to them and they tell you their experience in order to be able to tell it again and agian to get support for their cause. (I did the volunteering thing and the guy told me off for being british, whoops. It's very hard being told off by a Tibetan, they are all so lovely and innocent and ...

... back. Oh wow. words can not explain how totally in shock I was. Roger and the monk were very emotional. I became emotional. After we landed the volunteers all joked that that plane was probably the safest plane ride and that you knew you were safe in that plane. And if we did go down, it would have been okay because we would all reach Nirvana pretty easily. So having the Dalai Lama in the plane was amazing, but the true part of this ride that will ...

Hi Everyone Welcome to our India Trip part 13: The Himalayas. Dharamsala Well, the drive to Dharamsala was certainly interesting. Let's just reiterate one thing: the Indians drive like maniacs. With no road rules, no sense and no speed restrictions. None of this alters at all even when you are 2500 metres up a mountain. Resting on the precipice of a blood-chilling edge to let a big truck pass by makes you suddenly appreciate life! To get from Manali to Dharamsala took us through ...

... We took a walk through the narrow streets checking out all kinds of merchandise and ended up in a Restaurant where we had some hot "momos" with tea served by a Burmese waiter. After the interesting meeting with Lhakdor, we returned to the hotel and decided to stay on for dinner. We retired for the night after 2 Signatures and a very well cooked North Indian dinner. 18.5.2008 Lobsang took us to the Buddhist temple complex. It consists of the temple/monastery, a well laid out ...

... brought up some pictures of saddhus on the net and showed them to him. Then he said I was a very good man and handed me, with a precautionary glance around the room, a red bracelet. He told me it was a secret present and indicated I should shove it immediately into my pocket. Then he handed me a card asking for money so he could buy an umbrella. I gave him back his secret bracelet and he left with a grimace.

... Tibetans. While in Mcleodganj, I had to the opportunities to speak with a few Tibetans concerning their thoughts and their experiences in fleeing from their homeland to end up, eventually, in India. One monk, about my age, told me how he fled at the age of nine and spent two weeks escaping over the Himalayas in the snow, and through treacherous terrain. He was accompanied by another young boy, and two monks his parents had asked to watch over him. He had no special clothing to ...

... of all were a number of Tibetan dances and plays enacted by the older children dressed in traditional costume. After this I was amazed when the announcer said (in English) "and now, all the way from Italy, the world famous flautist Andrea Riminelli and his band". Five Italians marched out into the arena whom I immediately recognised as residents of our hotel. Michelle had asked them politely to 'Shut up !' a couple of nights before when they were making a lot of noise late at night. Next ...