Manali Specialty Hotels - Reviews and Rates

If you walked into your local travel agent and stated :I'ld like to go somewhere hot in a weird time warp, crowded with Indian tourists dressed in 70's attire with a population that is closely matched by Isralies. I also want to meet some very grubby, stoned, hemp wearing, tree hugging, multi coloured, clothes wearing freaks, who appear to have ...

Waiting for my night bus to Shimla, my last meal before I collect my stuff from my room and hit the road. Something I have noticed of Indian waterworks, is that they may have a western style sit down loo, in fact very frequently they do, but the chances of them having toilet paper are much slimmer, the last two places I've stayed have been the s...

Hello all! Iain here. We're about to leave Manali after a very pleasant 4 nights here. Its roasting hot during the day but pleasantly cool at night, so at least it lets a pasty scotsman recover unlike Delhi. Its very chilled out here although there is a certain type of longer term resident attracted by the (apparently) wild growing Marajhuana by...

Leh to Manali is one of the most spectacular roads you could ever travel on (except maybe the road to Khaza in the Spiti Valley). Day 1 : We left Leh after lunch and were half way up the Taglang La (5300m) when we saw our reflection coming the other way! A couple on another BMW 1150GS!!! The first people we have really met doing something like o...

I didn't think I would like Manali, from what my friends who had gone before had said, and driving in in the afternoon, I thought that would turn out to be true. In the main town the prices were much too high for noisy guesthouses, i got quoted 750, 500, and 350, so I drove on. Asking someone where all the cheaper places were, they told me to ke...