Blogs from Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, Asia - page 5

The bus journeys were not to horrendous, well not compared to the Nepal to India trip anyway. It was a bit galling though having to get a bus to Pathenkot (3hrs) when only yesterday I had lobbed past in the train! Then at the bus station I managed to find a bus to Kanga (4hrs), change there and get and get a bus to Dharamsala. Then I caught a taxi to McLeod Ganj. I already knew where I wanted to stay. I had sourced a little guesthouse ran by Tibetan monks called the Loseling. The taxi driver had to ask a few people along the way but eventually after me paying him more to carry my case up the long flight of wet stairs, there I was. Although I must have got the name wrong ... read more

Hello those of you still finding time to track my endless movements! I am writing to you from the home of the Dalai Lama...Dharamsala up in the picturesque mountains! I have covered quite a lot of ground since my last entry which has meant some serious train journies. Being in confined spaces has induced some interesting and amusing situations largely due to our train delirum, or as we like to say...going "insane in the train brain!". Sally and i have now managed to tally up 15 train journies! Most of which we have treated ourselves to the luxury of 3rd AC(carriages with air conditioning and pillows and blankets for bed time!) However to make it down to chennai from kerala we and the other gappers endured a 12hour-ish journey in sleeper class. Now, no air-conditioning, plus ... read more

Ah so it has been a while I know, but I have been doing a lot and haven't had the motivation to write it all down yet. But I am here in Nepal now, and have walked for 20 minutes to find an internet that doesn't charge you diamonds to use it so I figure now is as good a time as ever. So... I left Delhi at the end of April. I said goodbye to a new but dearly loved friend, and to an amazing adventure. I strapped on my pack and the memories that I would now be carrying alone again. The load felt a lot heavier. But after a 13 hour bus ride, including 1 flat tire, and a physical altercation between a passenger and one of the guys working on the bus, ... read more

A sunny Sunday morning and my last day off in my yoga teacher training before I complete the course next weekend... I have just been for a massage that involved having Tibetan singing bowls placed on each chakra and hot herbal compresses on all my joints which was pretty blissful after 3 weeks of an average of four hours of yoga a day. My body feels pretty thankful for some attention. After a somewhat iffy start involving doing my back in during what I think was the first yoga session of the course (guessing that the lawnmover relatde back injury on Waiheke hadn't healed properly) and spending the first week unable to participate properly and getting pretty wound up and dissapointed I feel pretty good right now. I do know that my body does not really ... read more

So at last I get to it, it has taken a long time, after months of joining this blogspot and having read hundereds of blogs, I eventually convince myself to write one for myself too....so without further due, here is an account of my last jaunt, well, it wasnt really supposed to be a jaunt, it was a full on high gear trek to a mountain pass and some lakes, but given the status quo, we settled for a jaunt..... Though we started out on Thursday itself but missed the bus we were looking for, which cost us a few dear hours of ascent. Even the bus ride was not the most uninteresting one, we were almost left behind on a desolated 'dhaba' at 2 in the morning. Oh, btw, by we I refer to Rishi, ... read more