Wood Valley Cottages
Travel Blogs from Manali
Tour of Mcleod Ganj and Amazing Cooking Course
... I had had a dryer room, with an actual window. I had a list of stuff to do and find out and I got almost all of it done. I booked myself on a cooking course for the afternoon as well as going for a short walk up into Bagsu, and sussing out a few destinations around Mcleod. At the cooking course, I met some cool English people and the course was amazing. It made such a difference to see how they made curries as opposed to just having a recipe book in front of you. I've written ...
Finding an implant dentist!
... it wasn't a problem. Yes, it was a problem, but he couldn't give two hoots! It was 4am and freezing!
So the ride to Manali was cold and after only three hours we were just 40 miles away from our destination, but the next 40 miles took another four hours. Strangely, we were at the wrong end of a popular tourist destination. For as far as the eye could see from our vantage ...
McLeod Ganj, Dalia Lama's Home away from home
... Mixed Vegetables (with a masala curry), Butter Chicken, Lachhta Paratha (bread like naan) and Chai tea. Everything was delicious and we wrote down the recipes so we should able to bring these dishes home with us.
We had been handed an invitation to a Tibetan Dance performance so we rushed over to check it out. We had been under the impression that the money for the show went towards the school ...
My first time paragliding
... somewhat of the essence. Therefore I and most of the others chose to get horses up, despite several of us including me having done little if any horse riding before, and we managed to negotiate a slightly discounted price of 200 rupees each. As it turned out, this ride up was more adventurous than the actual paragliding! The steep path up was narrow and muddy and the horses kept losing their footing. I was convinced that one of us at least was going to fall ...
Billing and Bir or Bir-Billing
... oak and rhododendron. Yet again, the rhododendrons were laden with scarlet blooms, such a delightful sight. As we approached the small meadow on top, the Kangra valley unfolded below with paragliders soaring right above us. The snow clad Dhauladhars to the west completed the pretty picture. ...
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