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Himalayan Adventure for New Year's 2006
hike in naggar, chai w/pavin, hotel "castle" w/no heat, new year's in vishisht (less heat and intermittent cable), chai w/sunter, few days in manali, no hike (1st snowfall), had heat, (slushy, cold feet), good cable tv. J entry: on to the mountains via volvo bus again, this time more torturous than goa, less cozy. it was long, winding road to the …
Himachal Pradesh: Manali
... old tibetan women that amble around the town, it seems like this place is straight out if a movie. The town is very peaceful and the locals are wonderfully friendly and helpful. Manali is quite off the beaten track and it is great that its raw beauty has not yet been ruined by tourism. In fact on our first day in Manali, we probably saw less than 10 tourists. Our first day in Manali entailed lots of exploring and walking through the town and its hilly outskirts, ...
Land of Peace and Self Discovery
... on the bus that we had been assigned seats in the back row of the bus. The negative aspect of this was that the seats did not recline and so we spent the night trying to snatch sleep in upright seats at the back of the bus. We felt every bump and swerve during the journey - and there were plenty of bumps and swerves! Dharamsala, and Mcleod ganj which is further north, is up quite an incline that takes a number of hours to traverse... And it was one of the ...
YOU CAN SKI IN INDIAAAAAAAAAAA!
Omg you can ski in India! YOU CAN SKI IN INDIA! Seriously, no way. What in May? Really?! You can ski in India! YOU CAN SKI IN INDIAAAAAAAA! : ) : ) : ) of course we weren't that excited but all the same we booked on straight away for a two day trip, not hesitating to request that we wanted Italian food for dinner, not Dhal! : )
The excitement began the day before the trip when we met our soon to be snowboard 'fwend', Justin from Canada who would ...
I'm here. Now what?
... there's a movie theater showing a dozen of the latest Hollywood features...intermixed with perennial crowd-pleasers such as Seven Years in Tibet, Kundun and The Big Lebowski. You did know The Big Lebowski was a Dharmic movie, didn't you? Last night I saw the Artist. Today I may see The Descendants and Game of Shadows. The theater only holds about 25 people.
I may also get in a few games of chess if I can figure out where the pick-up games take place.
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