Hotel Century Manali

... We would die there simply because of the cold and the difficulty in the route and to evade the Chinese patrols. Yesterday I went to visit the Tibetan Children's Village close by and they told me that about 60% of the children living there have their parents still in Tibet. That is because Tibetan children have no future in Tibet, because they are denied education. The Chines government of course denies it, but in the meantime they transferred 7 ...

... the kind of thing I was hoping for. At times the heat was pretty intense. I'm not sure how many of these things Billy has guided but he took a lot of breaks. From my standpoint it felt a lot like hiking in Oklahoma's Ouchita mountains in July (with the addition of small mountain villages and piles of yak poop).

Towards the end of the trek we hopped over a small stone wall ...

... välja organiseeritud telklaagrist, kust ta käis hinda küsimas, mis oli kallim kui kõik eelmised hotellid. Lööme telgid keset hiiglaslikke mägesid püsti, lükates platsil enne koomale jakikakahunnikud. Autojuht läheb Sarchusse sööma.
Oleme just kaasaostetud nidi-nädi murule lahti pakkinud, kui saabub lamba- ja kitsekari. Marttile see ei meeldi. Lambad piiravad meid ümber ja karjus sätib ennast meie lähedale murule istuma. Väga pastoraalne, paraku lahkuvad lambad lõpuks Martti ja karjuse ...

So our apparently "Deluxe" overnight bus to Manali turned to be a rather cramped minibus full of a bunch of other Westerners, but it was comfortable enough although we didn't do much sleeping. We arrived in Central Manali hours earlier than we expected - at four in the morning - which was a bit disorientating, but luckily there was a rickshaw driver doing a late night shift so we weren't stuck waiting around in the dark. Not many travellers choose to stay in ...

... fuel station for the next 400-500km so I filled up. I was now very close to Keylong but after about 20km realized there was a problem as I knew the petrol station was only suppose to be 7km from Keylong, Id must have taken the wrong turn somewhere so I backtrack, annoyed at using the precious fuel as the station was now closed and didn't open until 9am tomorrow and I needed to set off before that. Keylong was only a small town but had amazing views ...

... income. Other than that I have no doubt that I'm coming back here within a few years, so it's not goodbye. But next time I'm not travelling alone. Not that it's not funny or challenging and all that, but I've never been here with someone close to me. A few words about loneliness. I haven't experienced any. I've been alone most of the time but every time I've needed someone to talk to, there hasn't been any shyness to overcome. I don't want to make it sound ...

... chai, Dayalu gave me the keys to Rocinante--I'll be checking the weather in hopes of riding back to Delhi to make repairs on the bike, hang around with Balu and Laura at the Bullet Wallas for a night or so drinking beer and trading motorcycle stories, and then out to the cool deserts of Rajastan. Cool desert at this time of year, but burning hot in a month or two. If there is time, I will revisit the south before I finally have to go home and greet another Boston spring.

... h*lg*m for * 4 d*y/ 3 night trek up into the mount*ins to 13000ft *nd views of 16,000+ pe*ks. It w*s e*sily one of the most be*utiful pl*ces I've ever been to. Our guide w*s * big tough looking m*n who h*d the funniest little l*ugh *nd s*id "why not " to *nything we proposed or *sked. Before we he*ded out we discussed our food situ*tion *nd s*id we didn't w*nt me*t to be c*rried for 4 d*ys w/o ice. So the obvious solution, *s you *ll would only ...

... je ocetovo ime in seveda, receptor vse natancno pregleda kot uciteljica v prvem razredu in vse napake je bilo treba popraviti. Irena je kot tretja nalogo opravila brez napak. Kot ze omenjeno, je bil motiv za obisk tega konca Indije Tiger Corbett Reserve, kjer, ce imas sreco, lahko vidis tigra, ki se sprehaja po naravi ali ravno brusi kremlje ob kaksno drevo. Ker ni ravno idealen cas za obisk parka, taksne srece, da bi videli tigra, nismo imeli. Smo pa videli mnogo njegovih stopinj ...

... was driven past there were hundreds of people lining the road. Nearly all were Tibetan and they joined their hands together and bowed as he went past. The European Cup Final was not mentioned here at all I sometimes get to see a newspaper and the sports pages I covered with cricket news and not much else. I leave here tomorrow evening and go to Manali.