Blogs from Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, Asia

Hello, we have done Delhi to Chakrata which is hill station in Uttrakhand & Kathmandu trip, I am sharing the photos of those trip. Chakrata is a cantonment town and also a sub district/tehsil, in Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It lies between the Tons and Yamuna rivers, at an elevation of 2118 m, 98 km from the state capital, Dehradun. Chakrata was originally a cantonment of the British Indian Army. Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, is set in a valley surrounded by the Himalayan mountains. At the heart of the old city’s mazelike alleys is Durbar Square, which becomes frenetic during Indra Jatra, a religious festival featuring masked dances. Many of the city's historic sites were damaged or destroyed by a 2015 earthquake. Durbar Square's palace, Hanuman Dhoka, and Kasthamandap, a wooden Hindu temple, ... read more

Just over thirty years ago when my Mum was 18 years old she took an incredibly brave trip to India on her own. Mum had changed her mind about what course she wanted to do at University and decided that she wanted to do nursing instead, but it was too late to apply for that year so she was forced to take a gap year. Deciding that she didn’t want to stay at home but wanted to do something helpful in another country she applied through a Christian missionary society to volunteer for 10 months at Sharp Memorial School for the Blind in Uttarakhand, North India. In the early 80s gap years were not so common and hardly any young foreigners would travel, especially on their own, to places like India. There was no internet and ... read more

It’s been over a month since my first Vipassana course. In that time, I haven’t done much. In that time, chance – or fate, or karma, or however you want to call it – brought me to a century-old house in Dehradun, where the kindly proprietor fed me a healthy diet of vegetarian curries, and dreams. He filled my belly with tasty food and my mind with lofty plans, lots of plans. I was going to visit this temple and that monastery, learn this meditation technique and that yoga pose, attend this healing course and meet that exalted teacher. I was on my spiritual path and running full speed. I couldn’t see that I was trying to sprint a marathon, untrained. I didn’t recognize that I was bound to exhaust myself and fall short of the ... read more

I can't believe the day is actually here! I leave for India this afternoon. I depart Los Angeles at 4:30 pm today, arrive in Dubai at 7:30 pm tomorrow, have an 8-hour layover, then arrive in New Delhi at 9:15 am on Saturday. It's going to be a long trip. What's going through my head right now? Excitement. Anxiety. Uncertainty. Hope. I'll try to post when I get to Delhi or maybe from Dehradun. Thanks for reading!... read more

De mediados de julio a fines de agosto estuve en Rajpur, a las afueras de Dehra Dun, tomando clases con el matrimonio Chanchani q son unos de los grandes profes de yoga formados en el metodo Iyengar (q es el q practico yo). Tome 2 cursos cada uno de 3 semanas, y aparte de lo rico de las clases es muy entretenido el ambiente q se arma con la demas gente q esta tomando el curso. Para el primer curso me quede en una casa donde eramos 7 personas y en el segundo eramos 10. ... read more