Dharamsala Hotels - Reviews and Rates

So you know how I ended with my last entry with the fact that I haven't gotten sick this whole entire trip. Well the day after that I got sick. But not because of the food.. just my normal stomach sickness. Two weekends ago there was a peace festival in McLoud and I was so bummed I couldn't go...I just felt horrible all day. So I stayed home and...

Another run from Green Hotel to Dharamkot. Up the mountain road, through the pine forest, past monkeys lounging and exchanging possibly meaningful stares with me. Passed a yogi meditating on his porch. The saddhu I admired so much the day before sat down next to me for breakfast and made a toothless grin and in what I'd call a kind of toothless ...

I am now among the few, among the many who have seen the Dalai Lama. The past week he has been giving teachings here. Dressed in a chuba, I attending one morning with one of my Tibetan friends, where we lined up and stood feet away from His Holiness as he paraded to his seat. We rushed forward to get a good seat, and for about 2 hours I sat watc...

Monday started with a bit of a bang. It's "wedding season" in India, so in a city with millions of people this means each night you attempt to fall asleep to a barrage of firecrackers which sound more like automatic weapons than cause for celebration, so it takes some time to talk your fight-or-flight self down from the ledge. I finally drifted ...

We were here about a week ago, but I'm greatly behind in entries due to the usual technical difficulties as well as our punishingly busy sight-seeing and travel schedule. (violins?) Seriously, it never feels like a good time to hole up in an internet cafe when there's so much to see... Dharamsala and McLeod Ganj are the type of tourist destinati...

Its our last day in Dharamsala. We've carved out a few hours to sit and write, a stolen quiet moment amongst so much doing, learning, exploring, meeting. In a few days we head north to the land called Shangri-la for several weeks of trekking in the Indian Himalaya before heading back to the states. We go there different people then would have wa...