Hotel Shangrila Leh
Old Road, Sheynam Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Arrival in Dharamsala
Monday, December 17, 2007
Just left the Delhi group of 10 or so vols and we'll be
staying with them again the last 2 days when we return from Dharamsala. So it's off to Delhi airport for the 1 hr. 15 min. flight up north.
Interestingly, a few of us were at the airport talking to
this perhaps 60ish lady about something …
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Still on the hill
... money from the outstretched hands of the spectators. He then repeats the operation in a car. OHS rules supreme. Back to the town to stuff around with post, phone call to H (amazing), general sights and window shopping. Lunch. Take taxi to castle overlooking the whole valley. Not really used but sumptuous views with the mountains in the background. Walk (think vertical dirt path for a K) down to the palace which was obviously used by the king of ...
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