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Land of Peace and Self Discovery
... produce loads of real high quality wool blankets for reasonable prices so we decided to buy a few to send home to the family, along with various other intersting trinkets we had picked up along the way (i'm wondering what the Carolan household thought of the darjeeling tea and the masala chai!). I also decided to purchase five wall hangings containing inspirational quotes from the Dalai Lama himself. Seeing as I would never have the willpower or dedication to read at ...
YOU CAN SKI IN INDIAAAAAAAAAAA!
... still so far above us.
It was the best feeling ever sitting on the top munching on our picnic (which strangely consisted of among other things a whole potato in tin foil.) The view was epic and the feeling of just sitting there on what felt like the top of the world was indescribable. It was the perfect day, the best of moment the whole trip, just sitting and starring out across miles and miles of stark white Himalayas against a crystal powder blue ...
Snow in the Solang Valley!!!
... down. At least though it is not at all painful when you go down. My problem with this basically completely off piste type skiing/boarding is this - I can ski fine but I cannot ski off piste, I can board off piste but I'm not very confident or all that good and so falls were frequent, especially in the ...
Tibetans in Exile
... 8212;was it an important temple we should see? We stopped a monk coming down the road—“Cricket!” he said. It was an international cricket stadium, cricket being one of India’s main religions.
The mountains we could see from Mcleod Ganj were part of the Dauladhar Range, one of the three ranges of the Himalayan Mountains. We spent a day hiking 9 km up to get a closer look in Triund with Lalu, a guide. We climbed initially through the cool ...
Above the "Trash Line"
... culture separates people into those trying to profit (the Indians) and us. I think this division would take time to bridge-time we don't have...I'm tired of telling people where I am from and where I've been in India but that's okay because I have outlets for deeper conversation here e.g. Travis.
On our first wandering into the forest we stumbled upon a small house where a Japanese ...