8 Auspicious Him View Hotel
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Time and Reality
I don't know that I've ever thought about Time and Reality as much as I have on this trip. I keep my watch set to time here in Delhi, but my iTouch is set to time back in NC. Every time I update you on my adventures I'm very aware of the time of day or night it is back home. I straddle between the two worlds, awake when you're asleep... asleep when …
I'm on the train......
7.30 am Amritsar train station. My first experience of Indian Railways.
Luckily Indian Railways have a very good idea, if you are a woman you can go to the start of the queue or join the ladies only queue so got ticket very quickly! Cost was 35 rupees, around 70 rupees to 1 pound so v v cheap. Only problem second class, no reserved seating so …
Day out with Kyoko
This is a view of McLeod Ganj, built on the side of the mountain. Courtesy of Kimberley McCleod.
Kyoko and I met at 10am and walked to Bagsu Waterfall. Perhaps a 2 kms walk around the mountain. There were many groups of young Indian men ...
The Dalai Lama's teachings
... 4 days. The suffering of the suffering, the rhelms, the logic and reasoning, the single minded point of concentration, the part where we don't exist at all still have me slightly confused but interested to learn more.
After an hour, the monks and nuns bring large kettles of salted butter tea and Tibetan bread for everyone so we can keep on going. After 2 hours of the Dalai Lama speaking in Tibetan and the Taiwanese translation and ...
Sparsely Populated Spiti!
So it's a 4am start - pitch black, along the bumpiest road ever.. all comes to a standstill when a lorry gets stuck for 3 hours half way up the Rhotang Pass, so there's time for a spot of early morning sunbathing.
We continue through rolling green hills and snow peaked mountains. Water is everywhere - near-vertical streams, water-falls, streams crossing the road, gushing fast-moving river below.
Things become barren ...
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