Hotel Jupiter Manali

As promised the Volvo coach picked us up from the side of a busy highway somewhere in Delhi and we immediately found that our pennies were well spent, this one proved to be the most comfortable bus we've taken in India, lay back seats and all. Usually when you buy this kind of ticket (in our case tickets for the deluxe Volvo coach) at a random travel agency in the city, you are ushered onto an overcrowded and skanky paddock basher mini bus with seats that don't move ...

... defoncee... coupee par des eboulements, par les ruisseaux devenant rivieres...ou quand la route passe au travers de congeres de qlq metres de haut ! Nous de regrettons pas cette expedition meme si elle est un peu longue, 18h pour faire 400km! 18h a ecouter a fond de la musique indienne, 18h a etre secouer dans tous les sens, NON on ne le regrette pas.

notre plus grand fou rire fut de decouvrir LA station de ski au sommet d'un col...
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... four days. We met a few who were there for, say, a couple weeks. But here, it's a different story entirely. The mere idea that we are here five days is greeted by all with something between shock and dismay. People respond to the question of how long they're here with "just two weeks" - no where else we have been would two weeks be considered "just." But two days down, it really, truly, feels like just five days.

... people are strapped into the little ball, and pushed down a hill. To get there we went to a travel agent and he booked us a jeep to take the 13 km ride up the hill, wait for us, then take us back down again. The ride up was really beautiful and we were really excited to go zorbing. The taxi dropped us off at this green hill that is obviously used as a ski slop in the winter (complete with the ski lift and everything). There were many people on the ...

... was in a state of shock - heavy vibes - time to get out. The biggest wake up call from meeting some travelers to move on with was how much I was getting over-charged at Hotel Eve, Admittedly it was en-suite but at 1000 rupees per night (84 rupees to the pound at present) the 310 I got charged in the YMCA made Shimla more tolerable for another night. Shimla was increasingly heaving with Indian tourists and it was doing both mine and Will's head in as well as Dan, a newley ...

... wondering last night and was only too glad to get into a warm bed, with a ginger and honey tea and watch some TV and have a bit of privacy and space!! but guess what no place is sacred, for at the hotel they knock on your door, for you to do this or that, like sign the register/guest book or to bring your tea etc and push past you straight into the room all jolly ho!! and despite me ...

... sit inside and they are tied and rolled down a slope. solang valley was quite an entertainment ,though very expensive in rupees. Behind this scene there was a small trek going somewhere ..on inquiry we trekked 5 kms. to Anjni mahadev.It is a LORD SHIV temple with a natural waterfall falling on the shivling from a great height and ...

... i moved further and further up the hill, so I was getting higher and higher. It's the most incredible feeling, when you're in the air, flying!!! Like actually flying! And I had been worried that I might not like it because I'm scared of heights but it doesn't bother me at all. At first when I was up high I was a little nervous because I didn't really know what the glider was going to do, and I was irrationaly scared that it would just drop out of the sky, but I now ...

... je ocetovo ime in seveda, receptor vse natancno pregleda kot uciteljica v prvem razredu in vse napake je bilo treba popraviti. Irena je kot tretja nalogo opravila brez napak. Kot ze omenjeno, je bil motiv za obisk tega konca Indije Tiger Corbett Reserve, kjer, ce imas sreco, lahko vidis tigra, ki se sprehaja po naravi ali ravno brusi kremlje ob kaksno drevo. Ker ni ravno idealen cas za obisk parka, taksne srece, da bi videli tigra, nismo imeli. Smo pa videli mnogo njegovih stopinj ...

... a few places. We stopped at one place for tea, where they had a really long footbridge over the river, a bit like the Indiana Jones one, but wider and more stable (well that's what we were hoping). Soma and I went over to the other side to see what was going on in the little village over there, Gagan and Kaka were too scared, yep your read that right 'too scared' to cross over, what a couple of Larries. Anyway, there was a little shop on the other side where a ...