Tourist Hotel Manali

... . (120 KM) Day 13: Manali. A day of rest. After a nice lie in you can spend the day as you please. Manali is a famous tourist destination for Indian and foreign tourists alike and it has many good shops and attractions to see. (15 KM) Day 14 ...

well as the title reads, we only spent a moment in manali. after leaving security central we took the 9ish hour jeep back to jammu, then an hour or so later caught a very pleasant (if thats how you'd describe having overzealous men sitting behind ...

... case of retiring to bed as we had a bus to get at 8.30am. We got up and checked out and got a taxi from our hotel down to Central Manali. We got out as Joe needed cash and then walked down the bank with all our gear to the muddy bus stop we had arrived ...

... for my jacket. Suspecting check posts ahead, Dharmvir asked me to put on the seat belts. The region being a popular tourist destination, it also is notorious as a destination for drug freaks. All the private vehicles are routinely checked for narcotics. ...

... was Chara or Marijuana. Now, apples and tourisim are the mainstays of the ecomomy.   Our first night in Manali was spent at the Whispering Vally Hotel, which had been arranged by our agent in Delhi. After looking at a couple of rooms, Barbara ...

... . We picked out one and made all the arrangements for our next two days in Manali - volvo to Delhi, a trip around major tourist spots in Manali and then, rafting and sight seeing near Kullu. I am not going to go into detail about any of these, because ...

... altitude that you could see people farming the hills using donkeys, horses and ox. Our destination was Manali - a hill station, turned tourist haven (unfortunately). The 1.5 hour drive from Kullu to Manali proved to be another intense road ...

... air fade like a dream under the onslaught of so much lushness. And Apples! Everywhere! So ends our high Himalaya crossing. Manali is a tourist trap - similar to Leh, but much more domestic tourism. Our second day there it just pours, and pours; the ...

... may be, other than one provided by the taxi union. I lost almost 2 days because of this. It is something their tourist board needs to take more control over. I was pretty full of apprehension about the altitudes again, as in getting sickness going ...

... . I’m surrounded by beautiful landscape, people that have the weathered the worst this world has to offer and I’m in a community of tourist who do nothing but love, all day, all of this and I’ve been cooped up in my room for the past ...

... this is due to just about everything, a total assault on all my senses!! but mainly starting with the night bus to Manali from Mcleoud Ganj!! lack of sleep and cold!!! we packed up said our goodbyes...and headed to the bus stand for the 8.30pm ...

... and started a trek through the little back streets in the village of Vashisht behind the main square and away from the more tourist areas ( well sort of!!) of guest houses and restaurants, it is a wonderful place, made up of many hickledy pickledy ...

... she had stayed in Delhi over the weekend because she was sick). A bomb had gone off in Delhi. We looked it up online (the tourist agent also had the internet) and it mentioned a bomb in South Delhi had went off and injured 20 people.  We were ...

... of town in Old Manali or on the other side of the Valley in the village of Vishisht. We headed for Old Manali, and found a nice little hotel, and got it for a bargain. Despite being pretty exhausted, after showers we headed up the main road, above the ...

... i told nim i didnt believe in god and the rest of the queing time was spent in a religious lecture...which was nice! The tourist people were a little helpful but not great, they basicly sent me back downstairs to buy a ticket. I didnt take any shit from ...

... totall different, form the hot oven like dusty plains to the cool mountain heights. I was glad to get out of the shimla tourist trap, it was like queenstown wwithout nightclubs and a lake. New Manali sucks, when the bus finally arived the touts stormed ...

... Even now some people were heading up there for the partying; The hot springs in the temples of Vashisht were drawing the Indian tourist crowd, though an outside pool had only one lone Indian man in it. There were also two rows of taps gushing out ...

... we jumped into yet another rickshaw and went to Connaught place. Home of the touts and scam artists. We found a Himachal Pradesh tourist office pretty easily after asking some locals and booked our ticket to Manlali, setting off at 6pm that day. Amazing! ...

... with your waiter may/often go as follows: Tourist: Do you have chicken curry available for dinner? Waiter: Yes, of course sir. Tourist: Excellent. One order of chicken curry please. Waiter: No sir, I'm sorry. That is not available. Tourist: So you ...

... haves and have-nots, outsiders and insiders. Lining the back of the beach is the expected string of ubiquitous tourist guest houses, and their little beach bar/restaurants. Foreigners sit and drink beer, eat overpriced 'tiger prawns' and generally ...

... think I've gone mad now, would I?) It kicked off with a brisk stroll down the (steepish - 1 bonus point) hill from tourist-focussed Old Manali to the more functional part of town where the bus stand was located. I breezed past the waiting taxis without ...