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Toy trains and back to the cold
The journey to Shimla was a long one, taking the best part of a day; this started with a train from Delhi to Kalka and then a toy train up the mountain to Shimla. The train is known as a toy train due to the narrow gauge. The journey was a long but scenic one as we saw the changing countryside as we climbed higher and higher. Unfortunately, delays are par for the course and when we finally arrived in ...
Himachal Pradesh: from Delhi to Shimla
... 3 on their trolley with just a small togbag alongside.... Then the most 'hardcore nephew' wearing his 'Reebok shoes and Nike socks', pushed the 'biggest flatscreen' i have ever seen up to the check in counter. I felt so sorry for the poor Thai lady who had to tell/argue with all four 'cousin-brothers' that this was just two big to be let through! Off they walked with their tails between their legs to the excess baggage counter.... The next classic experience was at the boarding ...
ShimlaMandiMandiMandiMandinonstop!
... Russian Israeli photographer Dvir, to share a cab. We'd driven about 500 meters when the smell of panic emerged from the back seat: "ma sacoche! ma sacoche! oh putain! mon passeport! ma sacoche!" The colourful and so, so, french man we'd just met was officially losing it.
It became clear how French the family was when they attempted to communicate with the driver in English, which, like many Latin-rooted Europeans, they spoke very little of. The cab ...
England-on-Asia
... t mentioned about Shimla is that there are a lot of wild
monkeys around...wild, but very used to humans. Foolish tourists have
fed the monkeys up the hill towards the temple so the blasted animals
have worked out that anything in a person's hand could be food and they
often grab bags etc. As we got further up, the monkeys were lying in
wait and one of them eyed up the bag in which I had my brand new
flipflops. We ...
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