Our next move was to Sonamar for a 4 day trek to a Glacier, and then on to a 12,500ft snow peak - Nishymarli (that's what it sounded like). We weren't exactly prepared for the snow but made the best of it with what we had (we wore everything we had)! Not much to say except that the gypsy sledge touts were a pain in the arse, we had to eat our new friends (don't worry - they were chickens), the view from the peak was worth the 6 hour trudge through deep,deep, snow, and the 'bum sledge' down was loads [View Full Entry]

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We had tickets for a 'sleeper' bus - super deluxe air conditioned. In reality it was a coach with intermittent air conditioning and oversized luggage racks - which was where we spent the whole journey. 28 hours, one puncture, five bananas and one pack of hobnobs later we arrived in Srinigar - along with 3 quarters of the Indian army. As their trucks had priority (the big guns kinda gave them that privilege) the tourist busses had a long wait. The only thing to punctuate the trip, on a very regular basis, was the numerous passport controls. It was only for [View Full Entry]

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Delhi (Paraganj) - lets say overwhelming - it was hot, smoggy, smelly and overpopulated. Under different circumstances we'd have stayed longer but as I (Mark) had a cold and chesty cough we decided my life expectancy would improve with a move - to Shimla. Luckily we bumped into a very nice Kashmiri bloke called Niaz (technically he 'bumped' into us) who runs a small travel agency in Delhi. Seeing a chance to get stress free tickets to Shimla we had a few beers with him and went back the next day to arrange the tickets. One hour later we left with [View Full Entry]

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Hello and welcome to Mark and Gills travel journal. Apologies to all who expected this site to be running months ago, but as most of you will appreciate we're not the most organised of people! We started our 'journey' in Spain, spending 4 weeks in Algodonales, in the south, and then travelling around the coast for 2 weeks. While in 'Algo' we spent 3 weeks with Fly Spain (in conjunction with Lijar Sur - Spanish school), and qualified (thanks Rob and José) with a 'Para-pro 3' paragliding pilot rating, (equivalent to elementary and club pilot in England for anyone interested). For [View Full Entry]

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