Hotel Silver Star Srinagar

... by the armed guard and told I cannot take anything with me except money. Bashir is waiting so I give him my bag to look after while I walk up the long flight of stone stairs leading up to the Mandir. I can hear a mixture of Hindi and Gujarati being spoken by the people I pass which makes a nice change to the Kashmiri dialect which I cannot understand.
It's a shame I cannot take my camera as the views over Kashmir are the most impressive I've ...

... dudes are out there smoking cigarettes. Did I mention how awesome Delhi is.
I get out my sheet to use as a bed cover and lay down. Now almost 4am by my watch. At 430 am there is a pounding on my door, just as I am dozing off, and jackass number seven from the travel office is here to hand me an electronic printout of my ticket to Srinagar the following morning.
I need to be back at the office at 8am to catch my ride to the airport. So i lay back down and drift off ...

... I was warned to watch out for the Kashmiri's whilst in Srinagar I was warned to watch out for the gypsies but they seemed very welcoming and would always great you with an offer of tea. The offer was tea was kind but I was already struggling with chai and had ...

... a daily, especially in 2006 when militants attacked civilians and some Indian tourist with a series of deadly grenade attacks. Srinagar is famous for Dal lake and its now been 20 years since the beautiful house boats were filled with holiday makers. After finding somewhere safe to leave our bikes, although the token they gave us said 'We are not responsible for any bomb blasts', not very re-assuring, Richard and I organized a small wooden canoe to to take us ...

... sestra i maminka jen sedí a koukají. Vsechno, ale úplně vsechno tu odpracuje snacha. To je pak jasné proč holky "nepotřebují" vzdělání - pro rodinu je to investice, která se nevrátí. A to, ze by se holka nevdala v tradiční Indii neexistuje. ZÍTRA MÁME NA VEČEŘI PSTRUHY Miluji vůni destě. Na sedadle vedle mně sedí Massimo, před námi Kalim a vedle něj řidič dzípu. Ve večerních hodinách se vracíme z oblasti ...

... t we do....i got quite lost *ctu*lly so I m*y not h*ve *ll the f*cts right, but I do remember him mentioning when the 2 cows fell from the sky, *nd Hitler chose to shoot one of them, God told him to do it. The next couple of d*ys we rel*xed on the l*ke, dr*nk lots of k*shmiri te*- m*de up of c*rdomom, cinn*mon, s*ffron *nd persi*n (green) te*- const*ntly (though *pp*rently `no pressure, you do wh*t you w*nt´) told Chefi *nd B*b* no we would not like to go on * mount*in ...

... On the way back I think we passed the exact same soldier every kilometer standing there with their guns...guarding nothing. Entry into Srinagar airport was definitely different the the entry into any other airport in India I've been to. Here's what we went through: 1) Before entering airport property, we were stopped, I got out of the truck with my luggage and proceeded to a screening shack where I was frisked and my luggage scanned. My ...

... rutted, potholed, boulder-strewn, mountain track...). Since there were 5 of us, we had hired a jeep in preference to the local bus, thus allowing us to stop at the painted meditation caves of Saspol, the imposing monastery in the moonscape of Lamayuru and the 9-metre high carved stone Buddha in Mulbek, at which we arrived when the annual festival was in full swing, so we got to see ...

... Oh, pilot of the storm who le*ves no tr*ce Like thoughts inside * dre*m Le*ve the p*th th*t led me to th*t pl*ce Yellow desert stre*m Like Sh*ngri-l* bene*th the summer moon I will return *g*in Sure *s the dust th*t flo*ts high in June when moving through K*shmir. ~K*shmir, Led Zeppelin On *nother sunny d*y, hot but not too hot, M*ri*nn*, R*him, Helen, *nd I visited the M*n*sb*l *re*. In M*n*sb*l vill*ge, we w*tched *s women we*vers ...

... conditions allow. The biggest obstacle to constantly powdery runs was the wind. It created a hard crust in some of the areas. To minimize the avalanche risk, I rode where the patrollers cut the snow...for about a day and a half. Then I met an Australian named Luke and we ventured to some of the side slopes. The runs always started with a jump off the snow-packed cornice. Then we took off down runs with some of the best powder I've ...