Snowview Dehradun

... cell # 90990090710,Mr Bharat(30) and his wife Mrs Varsha (28) from Sutrapada near Junagarh, Mr Dabhi Jagdish (26) teacher at Swami Narayan trust BAPS School at Sarangpur.<br><br><br><br>21.09.2009 (Monday)Visit Ahmadabad to Palitana<br><br>11.15 am Day journey from Ahmadabad to Palitana ( 228 Km ) by Gujarat state ...

... Mumbai. As a devout Jain, she(73) and her husband(75) stay in Palitana for 4 months every year and climb up to the temple top daily to worship and return back to their place of stay in a Dharamshala. Only to day her husband was not feeling well, therefore she was climbing alone. At 08.30 am reached hill top after ...

... us, and after only a minute we would all stop and the Indians would challenge each other to make louder noises by slapping the water with their paddles. Also, our crew had one man too many making the raft unbalanced. Since Matt was in the very back, the guide ordered him to sit in the middle to balance it out. While Sarah and the Indians paddled the raft forward down the river, Matt just relaxed in the middle and felt useless and satisfied. There were a lot of things we didn't ...

So, one of the many cleanses/purifications recommended by my yoga school is the Brown Rice Diet. Now, I have heard of this back in the real world and have always been somewhat interested in trying it. I figured eating only brown rice might give my poor digestive system a break and perhaps enable it to better handle foods in the future. However, who can ever think of a time when they can only eat brwon rice for ten days? There was never a 10 day period in my day to day NYC ...

... Sivananda did intensely focused meditation and tapas (sacrifice to God) for 10 straight years. The energy of the Kutir is so palpably deep that going into meditation ...even for MY restless, anxious mind ... has never been easier. Just breathing into the energy that is already there all around me carries me away to quiet ecstasy or unspeakably deep stillness. Sivananda must have been a very great master, indeed to be able to charge the air and ground with this ...

... fear of god, vishnu and all the deities ever worshipped took a firm hold of me. It didn´t help that a Spanish girl had already been up there trembling with terror for 15 minutes and was praying loudly......not something to inspire confidence. I peered over, dithered, stared at the sky, listened to the pounding of my heart in my chest while a sucession of people walked up and jumped. Thankfully there were a few others questioning the wisdom of this as well........but having come ...

... could see passing from the open doors, and then night decended and the train ran through the blackness of night, only emphasising the speed at which we were going, and my fears that Indias rail infrastructure could not possibly cope with such speeds. But it could, and I arrived safely in Harawad (sp) and quickly found a tuk-tuk to Rissikesh, then quickly found a nice hostel. The views from my romo the next day were of the Ganges, or Ganga, with forested hills ...

... seen in Leh surrounded by colorful metal gates with intricate designs. There was something about this area unlike the rest of Dehra Dun; the presence of vegetation. I reached the stupa which was surrounded by some of the most well-kept gardens I had seen at any monastery. There was no shortage of signs telling people what not to do. No walking on the grass, plucking flowers from the plants, leaving trash, eating peanuts, etc. As I completed a walk ...

... is so much trash everywhere) and it doesn't seem like the govt. has seriously tried to solve this problem. We walked around their nature trail, called Sal Trail I think, after the Sal tree, which is native to India and important for making matches and attracts many insects and birds. This trip reminded us that not all of India is urbanized and crowded. There is still a lot of natural beauty and animal diversity if you ...

After our great accident in Orissa state, we decided trough out traveling by the main roads and pushed ourselves with the bike by train to Dehradun. We didn't stay here &#8211; just look in the map for some time and decide to go to Spiti Valley by the "easiest" way &#8211; straight up. The good way is painted in the map till Chakrata. But&#8230; it was a military city, and not foreigners are possible to go through it. One army gay (60 km ...