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Ciao a tutti.<br>Scrivo ancora da Manali. Ormai mi sento a casa, ho il barino della colazione, quello degli spuntini e il dhaba in cui mangiare la sera. Ho esplorato tutti i dintorni e guardato ogni parco nella zona. <br>Domani pero' spero di andarmene. Kullu e la continuazione del viaggio mi aspettano.<br>A presto.<br>

... of dried fruits and nuts as bus snacks for the crazy road trip. The orchards of Himachal produce huge quantities of apples, pears, plums and apricots. Tulasi is particularly fond of whole dried apricots that you can bite the almond tasting apricot kernal out of the middle of. <br><br>This region is famous for it's warm Kullu shawls which are woven on handlooms using wool from sheep, pashmina goats or angora rabbits and are decorated with wonderful designs. The ...

... of wood and surrounded in rough stone walls. having been refreshed we started our descent, which was even more arduous as we were constantly thrown about the jeep, and passing within feet of sheer drops that would have meant certain death with the slightest miscalculation from our driver. it took us as i mentioned, 7 hours to get to keylong, barely a quarter of the way into our journey ...

... popular around the world!). We were ready for a change and decided it would be nice to stick together. Manali is another Himalayan town, only a few hundred meters higher than McLeod, but it was clear from the start that this small increase in altitude was going to have a marked effect on the weather. We arrived to an overcast sky and trudged to our new guest house in fine drizzle.All was not lost on those grim afternoons when the rain would not persist ...

... here is planning on continuing the program and staying in Delhi and that is also how we feel. Andrew went straight to class after getting off the bus and I went home, exhausted. After chatting online with the parents for a little bit I went to sleep until Andrew came home. At 5 we went to Hindi, then came home and slept some more. We had had a lot of fun, and it was a pretty exhausting weekend. Wednesday was my actual birthday; I had a call from ...

... and I'm not sure how much I'd really get out of it. Obviously it would be a great experience, but there are also many great teachers in the US. Richard Freeman is right in Boulder, so if I just want to improve my practice, I can always study with him. I'm wondering how much of it is ego- to be able to say that I've studied with so-and-so. And, until then, I'm not really sure what to do. I have no desire in ...

... ate there, with a birds eye view of some public baths fed by natural hot springs. we met an american in the restaurant, he mentioned how all americans seem to have a really bad name for themselves, and then followed this shortly by asking if they speak 'whaleish' in wales. next day had high hopes of catching record breaking trout dashed by rain -we didn't pack waterproofs, so caught another a bus.

... so that should give you an idea of just how bad these roads are. This time we got to go over four passes which made our first three look like kindergarten. The first one was Taglang La (17,580ft) which I already talked about. I'm glad we did it and I'm glad it's over because it hurt. The second one was Lachlung La (16,600ft) which had the delightful feature of having a 800ft drop from the summit then straight back up 600ft. But, the road up to Lachlung ...

I am so behind with the Travel Blog - Busy has been the word for the past two weeks and I promise I will catch up. So many exciting things to write about: Returning to the Girls' Middle School in Govindgarh and a teacher in Calgary who is participating right now in the Global Arts exchange and more teachers who would like to participate as well. Dipping into the Ghanges and the Ashram in Rishikesh, visits to more village schools and the ...

... The baby monkies are fun to watch as they play. We were on an outdoor staircase watching monkies on a rooftop across from us. We turned to continue up the stairs and there just ten feet from us were a mother, father and baby monkey. They proceeded to walk past us down the stairs, with the father bringing up the rear. He didn't like the way we were watching his family and bared his teeth and hissed, but took off when Darrel raised a foot. Shimla ...