Pong View Hotel Dharamsala

... for me no such luck! He started off and it was in English......he did the whole thing (with a few short bits having to be translated) in English so stuck around and listened. It wasn't all serious thoughts on Buddhism etc he does add humour. A great story about people thinking he has healing powers. Last year he had gall stones and had to have an operation, this took at least 3 times longer than normal and he was in a lot of pain afterwards. As he said this finally proved that he ...

... Sophie. We had a beautiful walk up and spent the evening hanging out at a campfire with some other hikers we met. Went to sleep in our rented tent with plans of walking up even higher the next day, to see the snow line. But, it was not to be. I woke up to find that the my lips were swelling again! We were very worried that my feet would swell and I wouldn't be able to make it down. So I headed down right away. This led me to several different doctors-Ayer-Vedic, Western ...

... a stronger person than I. Some of the dumplings have little pieces of paper inside with characteristics that are supposed to describe you. I got salt and sugar which means lazy and kind of fake, my host family got a good laugh at my expense. At least I didn't get onion which means you will have a year of *******! On the first day of losar I woke up to dechang for breakfast, which is supposed to be a rice beer sour oatmeal type thing. Very strange. I choked down ...

... am really going to miss this place. The weather has been fantastic for the past two weeks and the locals are always telling me how lucky I am to be here for autumn. Lots of sunshine but not too hot. Cool, almost chilly nights when the big fuzzy blanket in my room really comes in handy. BTW I've been staying in an active Tibetan Buddhist monastery (Zilnon Kagleying on Bagshu Road. I'm paying $2 a night for a nice basic ...

... and watched the rain fall. We were drenched! I might as well have jumped into a pool fully clothed. It was amazing. So we have spent the rest of our day shopping. We needed to get dry clothes and we also wanted souviners. We spent some time in our hotel room hiding from the rain, but managed to make it out into the world again, and here I am. Tomorrow night we take a night train back to Delhi. It will be difficult to leave. I really like it here.

... in, I once spent the night in with my friend Jason, when it was raining so hard that I couldn't make it back to my hotel down the mountain, and we spent the whole night talking. And I remember thinking how nice he was and feeling blessed and grateful as I always do when I meet a truly nice and caring person. My room also overlooks that cottage where I went to see a Mayan shaman, who was actually British, who diagnosed me by cracking ...

... he's here now and he's going to enjoy his trip. Anyway, I nearly fall while waving hello to a shopkeeper in the valley and reflect that I at least would be in New York by tomorrow if my teeth broke off. I wouldn't walk around Asia with Chinese orthodontics. Jogged through the village, passing a group of Israelis exiting a German bakery, trying to find my way to the waterfall. I couldn't, and turned around. Ran by a little boy-about five ...

... up some prayer flags for decoration (and good merit of course!). We'd read, i'd play guitar, shmoke, and generally just take it easy! We met Maya+Yuval from the andamans there, and hung out with them a few times. There was an israeli owned restaurant with a massive screen and 600 movies which u could watch for free if u ate there, so we watched a few films. We attended buddhist teaching at tushita. And enjoyed the atmosphere of McLeod Ganj from time to time. But like i ...

... box' overlooking the events. Kirzun explained that it was the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the school and there was an inter-school athletics competition taking place. We sat and watched the games for a while amongst a crowd of well-behaved children. After some time I resolved to find Yoshi so thanked Kirzun for his kindness (which caused him to take one of my hands in both of his and bow) and went for a wander.<br><br>Firstly I walked around the grounds. Perched on and spread ...