Kareri Lodge Dharamsala

... le 4ème bus de la journée pour arriver - une Sonja courante pour les toilettes - à McLeod enfin ! J’attends dans un café et David nous cherche un guesthouse. Tâche difficile car le Dalaï Lama vient de reprendre son enseignement ici et les guesthouses sont donc pleins. Il réussi à nous trouver un endroit tranquille en dehors de la zone touristique. Une marche à travers la nuit nous y mène et je m’endors épuisée.

... cultural revolution and the exiled government in action. <br><br>But after 3 nights it was time to go. Nice place, great food, wonderful hikes, current film screenings (I saw District 9), all set in a very chill mountain atmosphere. It would be easy to get stuck, and spend a lifetime there, and I hardly have a lifetime to spare... I did though get to turn a few prayer wheels, so I feel a little better about the afterlife. <br><br>

... in town, doing some last minute shopping and dining at our favourite restaurants. The plan was to meet, all of us at 7pm at Jimmy's Italian restaurant. About an hour before Shayna, who was worried about Jon and his whereabouts, decided to head up the first part of the path and wait fom Jon to come down. We all expected that he would make it back well before our scheduled meeting time. However when we met at 7:30 at the restaurant, Jon had just arrived and ...

I am now enjoying my first day off since starting my adventure. This week we started classes, we have two and half hours of language class in the morning and various field trips and lectures in the afternoon. One afternoon this week, we climbed up a very large hill to a meditation center where we took a meditation class from a very funny Buddhist nun. We also recieved a lecture from a memeber of the Tibetan Parliament in exile. With so much time in language ...

... of the Kangra Valley so we were looking at shimmering jewels of color on the horizon from all the fireworks. So beautiful! I will say however, the here in India, the party never stops, and those fireworks probably went till 4 in the morning....so sleep last night was not an easy thing. By the way. ONLY ONE MORE WEEK TILL THE ELECTION!! HOLY ****! All of us are so excited here. We are going to be up all night rooting for our man. As you can probably ...

... s Educational and Welfare Fund. <br><br>To download the song in high quality 320kbps mp3 format and to make a donation go to: <br>The Sonic Nomad Project<br><br>Go to this blog to see the pictures and read about my time in Mcleod Ganj (Dharamsala) India. <br><br>Other sites I've found that are good resources for up to date information and resources on the issues facing Tibet: <br>International Campaign for Tibet <br>TibetInfoNet

... the sessions the students were very thankful for my time and I felt like their thanks wasn't necessary as I had benefited greatly from the experience. Today, Tom and I made the trip to Sidhibari to visit the Karmapa's monastery (Gyuto Tantric Gompa). For those who don't know, the Karmapa is the head of the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and the most prominent figure besides the Dalai Lama. We started the trip with a three mile walk from Mcleod Ganj to ...

... awful lot of time either hiding in cafes from the rain the only alternative is to look like drowned rats, which we do often anyway! It doesn't half rain here! But not to worry it gives us a perfect opportunity to sit and people watch- a sport in itself! There are loads of raving hippies here, all with dreadlocks, bindis stuck everywhere, drums attached to their backs and motley clothes on that look like they haven't' been washed since they arrived in ...

... and turns, snake-ing down the foothills where civilizations meet, prosper, struggle.... Tonight was a moment of meditation- i promised myself i would do that every morning i awoke at norbulingka... but it didn't happen. too mauch heat, too much sleep to catch up on, too many stupid excuses. but these little moments when i'm caught in the present, when nothing else is on my mind other than the dark and colorful people we fly ...

... listened to the hymns from the pretty mountain-forest churchyard. We spent the afternoon walking half-way across a mountain around some of the surrounding villages. The English couple actually went on a whole-day trek with the Tibetan man from the teashop - we just weren't feeling quite so energetic. As I mentioned before, virtually all the Tibetan business were "closed". It was a shame because we were looking forward to trying some Tibetan food and buying things from their ...