Hotel Shiva Continental Mussoorie

At first after Rishikesh I had planned to go north to the town of Joshimath which is in the heart of the Himalayas to get a closer look at their beauty, but I wimped out. I hate buses on flat land and the roads going up into the Himalayas are one lane and on the edge of a cliff with no guardrail. While I believe I could have gone safely since it is a popular ...

... started to scream. A medium sized spider crawled out of the girl's ear. She took a picture of it. Then she went to the doctor to make sure that having a spider in your ear for 24 hours wasn't too bad for her ear. The doctor was surprised at the story. Not because a spider had crawled into somebody's ear, that's common, that the spider actually survived. Apparently they extract a lot of dead spiders from people's ears here. There are also a lot of ...

... around the corner. Andrew has all of their names memorized too, so he says hi back. Anyways, so I was walking back with the Oreos and all the kitchen guys asked where Androo was. I said he was sick so he was sleeping. They were devastated. They kept saying he needs to drink black tea. "Androo drink black tea" "Okay, well he's sleeping now, but maybe when he gets up he'll have some" "I bring Androo black tea" "Okay, well he doesn't really ...

... there, too. Most of Sunday, as I said, I rested. A lot. We went back to the Opal Lounge, where Friday's evening out (ostensibly for Travis's birthday) took place. We watched the cricket finals, between Rajasthan and Chenai. Sherry helped me know when to cheer. I got a Thai curry again, and had ...

From Shimla, it was off to a town called Dehra Dun. This was just a stopover on our way to the next hill station. It was not a great city, but it did have two of our favourite coffee shops which of course we visited while there. It had a great market, and the only place we have seen the locals selling meat, well only chicken. But unfurtunately these weren't the plump chickens you see ...

... distances aren't marked. The line on the map is strictly notional, and, the map "topography" is pretty much farcical. We guessed we had about 20km to the top, and, based on my altimeter, knew we had at least 5000ft to climb. This works out to an average grade of 250 ft/km (75m/km). This is more than double the steepest grade we had ever found up high, but, at least we would have air here. And for the first 4km, the math worked out great! Engineers love it when this happens, but ...

... and got seats. More people piled on until some were standing in the aisle and others were hanging out the door. Then we were off for the 2 hour ride back to Dehra Dun. On the bus, we tried to use Lily and Myla's recently purchased cell phone to call the taxi driver to let him know when to meet us in Dehra Dun and take us back to Landour. However, after many failed attempts, we surmised that the cell phone was out of minutes and decided to just wait and see if ...

... wieder mal ungetreerte Abschnitte hat, auf denen 2 fahrzeuge nicht immer aneinender vorbeipassen wenn keines in die4 Schluct Richtung Ganges fallen soll. Zum Glueck hatten wir einen sehr umsichtigen Busfahrer! Wir steigen in Govin gaht aus, der Ausgangspunkt fuer eine Wnaderung zum Hem Kund See - ein wichtiges Heiligtum der Sikh-Religion -- und ins sog. "Valley of the Flowers".

... either push, pull and strain , comparing yourself to others or just go as far as you can, accept it and enjoy it. I'm definitely feeling more calm and centred. But also refreshingly quite capable still of being completely uncalm and uncentred! Just to let you know that it isn't all peaceful at 6.30 am today I was puking up salt water with about the sounds of about 20 others retching around me. Some sort of yoga cleansing thnig--I was open minded,I tried it but with the retching ...

... journey there and back, this was mainly due to a section of the road being washed away in one area and a landslide in another both caused by a storm the previous night. By the time we had got back to Gandhi Chowk we had just enough time to make it back to our hotel, to have a lime soda (freshly squeezed lime juice, soda water and sugar syrup), pick up our bags and then walk the 5 minute journey to the Library bus stand. Our bus left when it was full which was almost as soon as we ...