Nagesh Hotel Manali
Main National Highway Road, Rangri Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Gracious.
... myself by not drinking any water the day before, so as to avoid using the bathroom for the 16 hour journey. I did all right, but had one Indian experience in bathroom (thank heavens, only number 1). The bunking system was similar to that of Europe, except that instead of dark spookiness, everyone just stayed up all night. Yanna was lucky enough to spend the whole night talking to the most handsome Punjabi ...
Rest day in Manali
I didn't do any sightseeing / hiking / adventure activities of particular note today, although I did cross the Beas River by wire i.e. getting harnessed up and clipped on to a rope strung across, then hand-over-hand hauling myself, slung underneath the rope, across the river. It was a novel way to get to the other side and meant that I could walk through the grove of deodar (cedar) trees to get to Central Manali to find an ATM rather than having to walk along the main ...
Tashi Delek from Bir!
... muttering prayers under his breath also, and every morning and night their was the smell of sweet-smelling smoke as offerings of wood or pine cones were burned for the gods. Every house, shop, and cafe had pictures of Buddhist lamas: the Dalai Lama, Karmapa, and various important Rinpoches. Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche has his home and several monasterys that he built in Bir, so his spiritual presence is strong there. I was ...
A brief respite
... awe-inspiring view of snow capped peaks that I had run toward in the morning formed the backdrop of our "clinic."
We saw a slow but steady trickle of patients that morning, most of them young monks, and most of them generally well, but suffering from some form of skin fungus. There was an abundance of tinea capitis, which made me wonder whether this problem was truly more prevalent in this population (from sharing razors, perhaps?), or if ...


