H.P.T.D.C. Log Huts Manali

... nneks ei näe). Eine lõpetab magus tuline tee, mida luristan kohalikega solidaarselt.
Jõuame taaskord Bease jõe äärde, mis nüüdseks juba hiiglaslike saehambaid meenutavate mäeselgade vahel voolab, tee kulgeb kõrgel jõe kohal. Vaatepilt on võimas ja liiklus käänakutest hoolimata kiire. Inimelul ei tundu endiselt siinkandis suurt hinda olevat. Ühtäkki siseneme pilkasesse pimedusse ehk ca 2,5 km pikkusesse tunnelisse, kus ainsaks ...

... blond hair who were lounging at the Italian place our hotel runs. There are do-gooders like the girl from Berkeley, here setting up a cultural exchange program, and those who are entering or leaving a Buddhist retreat. But then there are the others - the British woman who waltzed (literally, a sort of adapted waltz to suit the Bob Marley that was playing) into the kitchen of Ogoo's to check its cleanliness before ordering two ...

... Manali itself, instead it is more pleasant to stay either in Old Manali or nearby Vashisht. We had met an couple of Aussies (Joe and Chelsea - they will be mentioned again so remember the names!) who were on the minibus with us, so we all had a discussion and decided on Vashisht. However, the rickshaw driver didn't like this idea much, so he took us to a guesthouse he knew in Old Manali instead. We didn't really mind though as we just wanted to get some sleep and ...

... something special, but it really feels like there is a lot less fear in me now. I feel safe and I don't worry about things out of my control (which is pretty much everything). Whether this will continue when I get back home I don't know. But I can hope. So.. I noticed that I haven't received any donations yet. How about if I promise distance healing for every donation? Also please rate this travel blog, whether you like it or not. Peace and love and all that M

... anymore. I used to giggle every time we passed a "Please avoid accidents", "Mind the bend, my friend" or some similar signs. But not during that last part. The guys in the back seat were airborne half the time and the rest of us were clinging to whatever part of the bus we could find. All in all a couple of adventurous days and now that I'm in Manali I'm going to relax for a few days while I figure out where to go next. M PS: More photos to come.

Well, I went against my own advice--never eat any kind of meat in India! The only times I have had digestive difficulties here is after eating chicken, but I never had any trouble with mutton here in the north. That is, until yesterday. Went over to the the Khyber restaurant, had a couple of beers, and the mutton Masala, my reasoning being that mutton is very good for keeping warm on a cold and rainy night. Felt good on the way in, not so good on the way out. I woke ...

... and I stopped for some mango juice and met the Saturday Baba. He carried a bucket full of one rupee coins with a statue of Saturn in Hindu form, the God of Saturday and the planet. We didn't meet him on Sunday--was he also the Sunday Baba? We gave him coins as he smiled. In the Sikh Gurudwara, we walked through steamy corridors amongst turbaned and bearded men and women in saris, passing chambers where free meals were served ...

... trajala in trajala. Vozili smo se kar 16 ur. Sicer smo preseneceni nad njihovo tocnostjo, prevozna sredstva namrec startajo ob predvidenem casu. Bi clovek mislil, da tu res vlada red. Vendar se je se enkrat izkazalo, da so Indijci veliki birokrati in uradniki. Vozniki avtobusov, sprevodniki... to so velika zivina. Tudi tokrat niso ravno najbolje poskrbeli na prtljago. Nalozili so jo namrec na streho, vendar je kljub mocnemu nalivu niso pokrili oz. jo nekako ...

... nice to get a bit of peace and quiet and be in Nature after the constant honking and beeping of India proper. It's nice to be able to take a wander through the fields and the old village houses with all the chickens cows and goats. Our main point for coming here was to do a 10 day course on Tibetan Buddhism. It was taught by the same Swiss Tibetan nun that taught the course we did in January. It was pretty full on as was in silence and we received so much ...

... school electrician and he extended an invitation for us to visit the school the next day ('Just ask anyone for Yoshi, they all know me') with the hope that we might like to sponsor a child. We replied that we would be delighted and bid him good night (after three bottles of He-Man 9000 it would be folly to stay for more).

It was not to be as such, however. The next morning Michelle had come down with a horrible combination of digestive and respiratory illnesses. As ...