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Yogi Bahim Ashram
... long road (about an hour walk from bridge to bridge) with shops selling clothing, food or items for prayer (including plastic bottles for bringing home Ganges water). You tend to see the most non-Indian tourists on the side closest to the Himalayan mountain range, with all the shops and restaurants catering to foreigners. That said, since this is such a spiritual city (no alcohol is sold here), you see just as many Indian tourists on both sides of the river.
I’m not ...
Touching the clouds in a beautiful hill station
... some of the words! (google "Jalebi Bai" from the movie Double Dhamaal - that was our favorite) We had a great picnic lunch in the car. The pictures and sights were amazing. We were literally in the clouds most of the day. We got out and walked for a little bit (as many others were doing) to stretch our legs. We let the car catch up to us. It was wild to walk so close to the edge of a cliff.
When we reached Mussoorie - ...
First Week of Mussoorie
... sentences it is really rewarding.
The teachers are really good, but they are also pretty intense. Classes only have four students each and most of class time is spend drilling sentences, pronouncing words, and taking dictations in script. If you get something wrong they just say “no” and stare at you until you get it right. By the time class gets out at 12:30 my brain is hurting. I am very glad that we are isolated up here in the mountains, because ...
New Respect for Himalayan People
... have all that responsibility!
After a little Q and A session with the kiddos, we taught them the itsy bitsy spider which they understood a little more than the younger kids. Then they taught us some song/poem in Hindi. I honestly did not catch much of it other than it was about a fish that didn't like to be touched and something about it dying. It was sad. haha, but then they sang us their national anthem and we sang ours...haha it was interesting. They taught us ...
Through queen of the hills.
... trees on one side and Yamuna flowing on the other side. We could make down half the way and rain started pouring in again, which made us to run back to our van.
I was all wet and while entering the van Sonu said “Guptaji, your mother called few moments back. Where were you”?
“Hey I really did forget to call her”, I thought, but I was a little embraced and annoyed that she is making me look like a kid in front of all. I called her back ...
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