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My last night in Kathmandu. I decided that for my last night in Kathmandu that I would take Raju, his wife and his two lovely children to dinner. It was something simple as I didn’t want them to feel uncomfortable. Raju’s mother was visiting from the village so she came too. To Get to Kathmandu she has to walk three hours up hill and then get a bus for 1 hour. I have been asked to visit them next time I am in Nepal, but am I up to it? Raju said that his wife and mother had never been to [View Full Entry]

Indiabuffy - Beverley Garritt-Jones | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 30th 2009 | 157 Views | [diary=423801]

Rajan behind his present, Sushmita and their mother.
Rajan loved his car
The children's grandmother came from the village

Mt Menthosa is 6,443m (21,000 ft), in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh in the Western Lahaul Valley, off the Manali-Leh highway not far from the town of Udaipur. This blog entry covers the period June 23-29, 2009, when I set off on an attempt to summit this mountain. There were eight of us on the team: Me - the "client" Kaushal - The expedition leader Bogwon - Guide & porter Devraj - Guide & porter Balu - Nepalese cook, who will stay at base Camp Indu - Kaushal's wife, who will stay in Base Camp Rinko & Sushima - friends of [View Full Entry]

GreginBangalore - Greg Lipper | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 4th 2009 | 151 Views | [diary=422953]

With village porters who brought supplies to base camp
Hiking up to base camp
The expedition team at base camp

Journey from Chandigarh to Shimla by car is cozy drive as the national highway is well connected with condition ,maintenance is far better than our standards. Time is early morning at 7AM ,as I prepare to Leave chandigarh near Danik Bhaskar office on way to Shimla,my wife keeps the routine eatable so as to make the journey more easy to drive.We therefore in this arrangements leave our home nearly twenty minutes as per schedule and at 7.25AM is on our wheels to drive towards Matka chowk and sector 26 to Panckula Road,on way comes we comne across following small towns which [View Full Entry]

Nksagar - Naresh Kumar Sagar | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 28th 2009 | 254 Views | [diary=423018]

Shimla
Shimla
Chandigarh Rock Garden

The executive management team for the CPA Global office in India headed off to Shimla this weekend to align ourselves around our common purpose. When you have goals as big as CPA Global you need to be in the highest state of trust and communication. Fortunately, our country head in India, Bhaskar Bagchi, not only understands this but he takes his team out on corporate team building exercises to assure this. For this team building exercise, Paul Mathew of the "Corporate Theatre" facilitated the experience. Paul teaches successful team behaviors through experiential learning. It was a brilli [View Full Entry]

A Travel Story - Dan Bell and Kim Gibson | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 25th 2009 | 188 Views | [diary=421917]

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And so my time here has come to an end. I had been planning to leave yesterday, but then I found out from the Monk who adopted us (Geshe, for short) that his Holiness the Dalai Lama himself would be teaching Tuesday through Thursday here in MacLeod Ganj. Thus yesterday I awoke at the crack of 6:30 to go online and attempt to talk to my parents. Three attempted Skype calls and a string of profanity later, I resigned to postponement. Marcela woke up late and instead met me at the Main Market Square at 7:30. Allow me to walk [View Full Entry]

heartofbraveneuduefness - Jessica Neufeld | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 22nd 2009 | 86 Views | [diary=420887]

Chatting Monks
Miin and Niel
Dinner with a Monk...

It was raining lightly when we left Naggar and drove through the lush Kullu Valley. We passed many small villages full of slate roofed houses and apple orchards. The roads were lined with shops selling woolen shawls - many of them had men weaving in them though most of the weaving is done by women on looms in their homes. Once again we were following a river valley and after passing through a 4 klm long tunnel we crossed from the Kullu River valley to the Banjar Valley en route to the Jalori Pass and Shimla - our starting point on [View Full Entry]

lmh - lin hunt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 14th 2009 | 72 Views | [diary=427515]

Sanju praying at roadside temple before he crossed Jalori Pass
Jerry and Sanju at top of Jalori Pass
Finely woven slippers with rush soles - worn indoors - AUD $3 pair

By Mitrompeta
July 17th 2009
Manali Asia » India » Himachal Pradesh » Manali
From Mcleod Ganj we went to Manali were we arrived at 4:30 in the morning. Obviously we traveled at night which gave us some concern beforehand. Even more so because there had been several accidents near Manali in the last couple of days. In the end we arrived in one piece, mostly because the good driving and the little traffic encountered on the road. I should know because I spend the whole 7 hour journey looking at the road, trying in vain to combat my travel sickness. Curiously this hadn’t bothered me when we came to Dharamshala. But then we traveled [View Full Entry]

Mitrompeta - Johan en Ilse | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 17th 2009 | 186 Views | [diary=419434]

Caught in the wild
Me & Mini Me
Emancipation

5.30am saw us up after a uncomfortable cold night in the tiny guest house at Losar, the last village in the Spiti Valley and at 4079 meters altitude the highest we had slept. No water, cold or hot, but thankfully a cup of lemon tea before we loaded the jeep for our long day of driving to Manali. The first hour saw us heading up to the Kunzum Pass (4551 m) twisting round and round U bends on what was a very rough road. At the top of the pass we hung prayer flags for luck around the ancient chorten markers, [View Full Entry]

lmh - lin hunt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 11th 2009 | 129 Views | [diary=425549]

Police roadblock in Losar
Lady in Losar - wildflowers again at 4079 meters
School in Losar - those words are so true!

I had a rather bizarre day yesterday. Was it bizarre, or what is just India? You be the judge. 6:23 Wake up 6:31 Face off with a pair of monkeys. They were raiding a garbage bin and blocking the way between me and the bathroom. I stared them down, or rather, I glanced fleetingly, terrified as I learned the hard way many years ago that when you stare at primates they get mad and barrel up to the glass partition at the zoo and slap it, scaring the five-year-old bejesus out of you. Also, I have seen the Planet of [View Full Entry]

heartofbraveneuduefness - Jessica Neufeld | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 16th 2009 | 93 Views | [diary=419136]


Kaza (3600 metres) had the feel of a wild west town when we arrived there - it seemed to have just been plonked in the middle of nowhere. It didn't have a lot of character as it was mostly cement houses (it is a government centre) though later we did find a small old town on the other side of the small tributary of the Spiti which flowed through town.. It had as it's backdrop a barren brown mountain which we were to explore the next day. Both of us didn't like Kaza much at all but the three nights we [View Full Entry]

lmh - lin hunt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 11th 2009 | 93 Views | [diary=425546]

Sharp angles - surreal landscape
Enormous Buddha at Hikkim
Mountain road between Komik and Hikkim