Nishita Resort Manali

... around and some guy video taped too which i bought the dvd of after! Mark enjoyed himself too, he didn't scream like a girl apparently, although i wasn't there to witness that so i guess i'll just have to take his word for it!

After the paragliding we head for another temple " Handimba" temple where outside there were the weirdest rabbits i've ever seen along with some yaks!! craziness! you had to pay if you wanted a photo, so ...

... is tons of outdoor activities in Manali... more so in the summer, but we still tried to take part in what we could. We went "skiing" which i guess in India means nothing....they are just happy to see snow i guess! It was weird though,being in the Himalayas and all to not see any down hill skiing! We did, however, get to rent some snow outfits straight out of the 80's and strap on our skiis to do a little 'cross ...

... work in these small mountain areas. According to some that have been in prison, they were submitted to extreme beatings, experiments, and other forms of torture. Yet, the world stands by, more concerned about who Paris Hilton is dating than the fact that ethnic genocide is occuring in a country that has given the world so much. How have our priorities become so skewed?!?! This is just one example of what is ...

... houses but with giant slate shingled roofs. We stayed in upper upper Manali in the midst of a small village where cows roamed the streets, kids played marbles on the sidewalk, (separate of course) groups of woman and men sat around kibbutzing, farmers carried their giant baskets of green stuff (we're not sure what) up the stone stairways, and every little house had a tiny garden with flowers and usually an apple tree. The whole feel of the place is quite ...

... husband, also two older brothers with their wives. Sister has two children, and the brothers have five between them. They occupy up to 12 rooms of the building, though less rooms in the summer when half of the 13 rooms are converted to guest rooms for paying customers. Everyone pitches in a bit here, a bit there, but Mata-ji seems to work the hardest of all. She is always busy, washing, cooking, even in her "idle" time spinning wool into thread by hand from which she weaves her ...

... helpful information before leaving us to a long, long day of climbing. The morning was cool at least, and we made good progress, soon passing Rumtse which is the last year-round settlement on the road; for the next 250km, the only population are nomads and the occasional 'parachute tent' towns - so named since they're set up using surplus Indian Air Force parachutes for the roof. 39 km, 4200 ft to climb (sorry about the mixed units). Our lungs are pretty good up ...

... 500 rupees ($12.50) that the driver wanted. It was a steal, in hindsight. But such is the art of bargaining in India. Instead we got a ride to Kaza for 60 rupees a head, where we were sure to find more willing drivers...right? Wrong. We asked everybody and their mother. There were plenty of jeeps. Many of the drivers were afraid of the rumored landslides and were hiking their prices accordingly - 3500, 5000. And when we tried to negotiate ...

... poti, naposled pa preckajoc dvorisce s kokosmi, le prisli do nje. Sama sem bila presenecena nad tem, kako celotna zadeva izgleda. Ministrstva imajo zbrana vsa na enem kraju- ministrstvo za solstvo, za kulturo, zdravje, notranje zadeve, zunanje zadeve... Ministrastva, med seboj locena par korakov, imajo sedez v poslopjih, ki dajejo vtis stanovanjske hise. Kljub vsemu je bilo po mojem mnenju vredno, da smo na lastne oci videli, kako imajo Tibetanci urejene te zadeve. V okolici ...

... competitive games with others. Perhaps they will be reborn again and again into the cycle of Samsara until they realize the wisdom my own father imparted to me long ago: "If you're good at shooting pool, that just proves you're a loser who hangs around in bars all the time. . " I have been giving back a little here by teaching one of my Tibetan friends some chords on the guitar--he has owned one of the Indian made "Ebiphone" guitars, and actually one of ...

... and a river was in it's place, the trip was fine. The driver was towed through that part by a bulldozer while we picked out way from rock to rock and only got a little muddy in the process. And now, finally, I am in Manali! I am saved! So now I just have to figure out what to do next. I'm still in the mountains, and I just want to get out of here spending as little time as possibly on these roads... so we'll see. For the time being, we're just enjoying running water and warm weather ...