Moti Mahal Hotel Srinagar

... are going on a trek tomorrow for 4 nights with Sohail. I find out they also arrived here courtesy of Delhi tours.
Andrea tells me she has been to Srinagar before and stayed on one of the house boats which she loved. She also went to Rajasthan and said the camel safari was great if it wasn't a big group.
It gets dark and Ashraf takes us to the Internet cafe as I've told him my phone doesn't work out here and I need to let me family know I'm not reachable by phone for ...

... some four pillars holding the cellar, these are decorated colorfully with some sort of banners. One of the walls is a kind of alter, I guess. It is covered with all different images of Buddha (i think:). A big portrait of Dalai Lama is hung there as well. Some blinking lights are attached all around - honestly these look pathetic. The monks are sitting in symmetric rows, facing the center of the room. There is a principal who sits closer to the alter and conducts the process. There are ...

... The serpentine started to become more casual and less asphalted from one hand and more perilous from the other. Needless to mention that it was all remarkably beautiful around. The mountains I was approaching, the valley I was leaving, the perspective that was opening. There were road-stones every kilometer - there were some 10 left, but the progress was very sluggish. I also was fighting all the time with the klatch of the Vespa - the gear wasn't really in perfect condition.
Nubra Valley, Jammu and Kashmir, India maxint

... gh *nother g*rden where we took some pics *nd some indi*n dopes wolf whistled *t me, our guide told me to ignore it, w*s very h*rd but i did *s i w*s told! for once!! we then went to * k*shmiri c*rpet m*king f*ctory, *g*in "you don't buy you just look" followed by "which of the c*rpets interest you m*d*m?" "Don't own * house love so im *fr*id i'm not up for buyin c*rpets tod*y! " i did buy 2 p*shmin*s however! very nice! we he*d b ...

... selle hoolikalt ajalehte.
Maksmise kohta öeldakse, et ma maksaks niipalju kui tahan. Eksole. Toas oli õnneks seinal silt 2009. aasta hindadega. Ühe inimese lõuna, õhtusöök, ööbimine ja hommikusöök 400 ruupiat. Saan isegi sajase tagasi. Kõik on rahul.
Sammun läbi küla ja näen veel külalistemajade silte. Eespool on sinist taevast. Jään küla viimase veenire juurde peatuma, et hambaid pesta ja oma vinge veefiltriga vett filtreerida. Eemal paistab juba madal ...

... from underne*th. Actu*lly this is little surprise, for e*ch bo*t *nd home by *nd on the l*ke dumps it´s w*stes directly here. I would not even dip my h*nd inside *nd *m *mused to le*rn th*t tourists *ctu*lly swim in the l*ke during the summer. Surely they must be tot*lly intoxic*te by booze or the inf*mous k*shmiri h*shish when they do th*t.

Slowly the sun sets behind the r*nge of snow c*pped mount*ins in the west lightening up the e*stern r*nge for one l*st time while lending ...

... cultivent un peu et font pousser des arbres, genre de saule assez resistant pour affronter des temperatures qui peuvent decembre a -50 en hiver! Vers midi on traverse notre 1er village, Rumbak, et on est plutot surpris par la taille du bled: une seule et unique maison accroche au flanc de la montagne, avec qq jardins en terrasse ou la famille fait pousser un peu d'orge! On s'amuse avec un ptiot tout mimi mais bien cracra...
et apres environ 6h de marche, on ...

... bands with the backdrop of Government House and sunset shining through the gate. It was more that I had anticipated. A good prelude to India as a whole. The next morning I was off to Kashmir. The flight in to Srinagar was stunning. Crossing so close across the ...

... spend all day on the lake and still not see everything there is to see on it. i was only on it for 3 hours but everything i saw was beautiful. farmers collecting their vegetables, women doing their washing, children swimming or rowing, ducks quacking with all their ducklings following them. everyone was connected to that lake, someway, somehow. then i got off of the shikara, indian gondolas, to visit the city of srinagar. the summer ...

I sat around in the nomadic tent freezing my butt off (we're at 15,000 feet) with the group I'm travelling with and we laughed about how dirty we were, having not removed our clothing for 3 days by then...and one glance around the tent put everything into perspective, as these people get one or two showers PER YEAR.... After climbing the world's highest motorable passes (one caps out at 18, 380 feet), meeting a great group of people on a 15 hour (and local, I ...