The Chalets Naldehra Welcome Heritage

... hit the traffic. The road was closed for an hour, and we waited, gladly it we weren't that high yet (and it wasn't that cold). Just as the traffic jam appeared there was a couple of businessman on a side of the road. They were selling a hot sweet corn, and it was a great success! I got myself a cob, and brought one to my fellow passenger. It was a really good step - he appreciated this ₨20 present very much - tried to explain me about the place around ...

... t think I will try. I will say all of the Tibetans we have met here have been amazingly warm and welcoming to us, sharing their story, their culture and their friendship. Whether it was during English lessons we have gotten to participate in the past few days or my cooking class I took (I make hella good Momo's or Tibetan pot stickers) or the people we have struck conversations up with on the street, the warmth is apparent.



McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh, India agrossma

... v*lesti *rvest*nud jeep r*tt*g* sõidu*uto küljest pisut värvi m*h* nühkis. Sõidu*uto juht v**t*s õnnetu näog* pe*lt.
Mõne *j* p*r*st on vett tekkinud, küll mitte dushi, v*id *inult kr**ni, j* k*sut*n seeg* ämbri j* kopsiku meetodit.
Võiks teeseld*, et tegeleme *klim*tiseerumiseg*, *g* tegelikult vedeleme niis*m*.
Kell* kuuesele õhtusöögile minekuks on kõht veel liig* punnis, oot*n kuni päikese loojumiseni. Ennist väis ...

... seating was in and immediatly outside the temple, and seperated from them in the outer seating were cushions for everyone else. We sat down among Tibetan families with noisy children, young and angsty looking Tibetan kids, and, most memorably, gnarled and bent old Tibetans who twirled their handheld prayer wheels and had smiles so wide that they could not possibly reveal the intense lives of refugees that the oldest Tibetans invariabley experienced. Tibet has been under ...

In the afternoon English Conversation class at Lha, we sit in tiny circles, one backing onto the other, and the noise, especially when one group makes a joke, can easily block out the quiet Tibetans with whom I am talking. There are nine of them, all young men between about 19 and 28, three of them monks. Kate is only a few feet away, talking to a circle of four slightly younger men. Behind her is a group of women who laugh loudly enough ...

... the snowy mountains. We started at about 11 am and hiked, or more like climbed rocks and stairs, for 4 hours before reaching the summit. It all became worth it as we came over the top, for the jagged snow-covered Himalayas lay right before us. It was as if we were standing on the top of the world (which in a way is true). As exhausted as we were, we ate some food, took some pictures and rested before making the journey back down the long and winding path on the side of the ...

... or three, but one would be quite wrong. There's just the field, and in the morning, a steady stream of folks heading out with a bottle of water (for washing, see), and finding a (slightly less) conspicuous location to squat. Oddly enough it seems to work; in the high dry air and brutal sun, the UV apparently kills whatever doesn't immediately dry out, because there is no smell, and are no flies. Just watch your step. Another day, another pass, this one called ...

... s Children and once in a while went on brief hikes around the rocky meadows-turned-wetlands. Periodically, someone would come to my tent with an unexpected warm meal or I'd hear my neighbors Kevin and Nate singing "it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Finally, the storm began to subside: "hello neighbor." In one day, we hiked to Mudh (usually done in two days). After the rains and ...

I arrived here in Manali on Saturday morning, the bus left Mcleod Gang at 8.30pm and arrived in Manali at the very convenient time of 4.30am. This left myself, a few other English a group of Israelis, a couple of Americans and one Hungarian at the very dusty Manali bus station, scratching our heads as to what to do next. Eventually hotel touts and taxi drivers appeared and we all went our different ways. The bus timetables in some of the ...