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Plian sort of day
... Couple of sriritaul souls arrive, strip off to strange g string thingos. G goes beserk with jealousy and wants one. (Settle, Helena). A little mock shopping and off to a Tibetian temple for prayer and shopping alongside. A proves his genius again. Flushed with previous success, A goes into shopping meltdown ... trinkets, coats, anything availabe. He is drugged to the eyeballs with the local weed ..haggle. Having saved the gross state ...
Getting lost in the Himalaya... not a good idea!
... come down to the river's edge and in front of me loomed a huge rock face. The path had already petered out to nothing. I remembered that on a map I had looked at, the trail was shown as mostly being a distance away from the river, so I thought that if I tried to climb up the steep hillside, eventually I would have to reach the path. The other option was to retrace my steps but I seriously doubted if I would be able to find the path(s) I took to get here. ...
Arrival in Manali
... heavy backpack, but I needed the exercise after sitting on the bus all day.
I tried a couple of Lonely Planet recommended hotels - one was full and the other outside my budget - and then I bumped into Mindy and Holly on the way up to try my luck at the Dharma Guest House / Hotel; they had had no luck with the places they'd tried either. Fortunately this accommodation - despite having a large group of ...
Fragrant Weed
... to the cooking lad who hails from a remote local mountain hamlet, and meeting our Italian neighbours who live full time in Puttarparthi, the abode of Sai Baba, that we had visited on this journey, prior to his death.
In the early evening we dined out at the vegetarian Rollick, by the castke, on the local cusine, foods like bhatura (a rustic chappati) and red rice. We just had to accompany that with a plate of chips, didn't we!!
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Indian Paradise
... the USA. McLeod Ganj is a really nice place and it's got us all geared for Tibet. We brought a lot of Tibetan goods as we may not be able to get authentic Tibetan made goods in Tibet (because we didn't want to support the Chinese). We also may not get there. The next day we went for a walk around the monastery which had great views of the valley below. We also ...


