Hotel Manali Continental

I feel really ****** off - the jeep didn't came in the morning. The plan was to call them in the morning to make sure they are coming. But no one answered, and I decided to go the rendezvous point anyhow. Afterwards I found the mobile of the agent, and it was the third time he promised me that _tomorrow_ the jeep will come. 
So it was another ...

<br>I have been mountain biking for sometime now.<br><br>I always wanted to reach the highest pass, KhardungLa (18,380 feet) on my bike.<br><br>Read the complete blog with day by day account ...

... shoulder. All of his family was still in Tibet, and while he liked the opportunities for education here ("opportunity" seems to be one of the first words Tibetans learn in English. Those who still cannot explain how many siblings they have use it often) he hated being so far from those he loved. His English was slower and more broken than that of his friends, and several times during our conversation he had simply given up, asked the ...

... two in the mountains in a couple of days.. will see how things go, but to be honest i think we are all fine just sitting back relaxing for a few nights... espically after the rush of the past weeks of so going from city to city within hours of eachother. sorry its brief etc, but time is ticking.. and we have locked Joe's room-mate out of their room... we should prob go and find him!!! lartz people!! xx

... ride in the dry, don't think it would of been much fun last night cold and wet though. Minali was nothing but a couple of stone house until the 1960's, but now it seems to be the gateway to explore the north and quite a big traveler hangout with more Israelis than Tel Aviv. (if you have not been to India you may not no what I mean by that, basically about 90% of the young tourist in Minali are ...

I had been recommended to give Manali itself a miss and stay in Vashist, a nearby village, instead. That advice was half right - Manali was really nothing special; unfortunately, neither was Vashist. Another one of those places that seem endemic in northern India, designed to trap foreigners in a safe, comfortable little world where everything is easy and convenient and you can forget that you're in India. People were first attracted here by ...

... and sorted, Karma hurt his back last week, so it was only yesterday that I was finally able to get Rocinante's adjustments and timing done. She runs like a charm now, though. No big deal though, in addition to poring over hindi words trying to add vocabulary, I've gone back to an old manali habit of mine from last time, reading some classics. Oliver Twist was gone in a couple of days, and yesterday I got East of Eden, a monumental novel from one of my all-time ...

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... inside and within minutes I was on a rehydration drip. I stayed there for 7 hours and they gave me all sorts of injections including a range of antibiotics. The drip took so long because of my low blood pressure as a result of dehydration. I vomited green goo and the dr inspected it shaking her head saying 'stomach infection', then she injected me with anti-nausea medication. The drip was very painful and they had to change it to 3 ...

... it was under rennovation (Michael Palin visited here in his series 'Himalaya') - but I still managed a sneaky look in, it was dark and I took a snap with the flash on. I walked off from the Mall - dropping down incredibly steep steps to the bazaars made famous in Kipling's 'Kim'. I used to lunch at the Indian Coffee Shop - it wasn't a patch on the ones I'd visited in Kerala - but it was ok - vada dipped in samba was something I ate often. Problem with Shimla ...