May 1 - May 15 Dharamsala may just be unlike any other town in the world. Where else can you, just in one day, start with French crepes, watch monks debate in a 1000-year old tradition, take a Hindi class, learn how to cook Indian food, have your fortune told by a blind man on the street, have pizza with Roquefort cheese and walnuts for lunch, have a traditional Tibetan massage, haggle over prices with Kashmiri traders, meet people from all over the world, watch the latest bootleg movie in a hole-in-the wall theater, and then top it all off by deciding whether to have Japanese or Korean sushi? There is tremendous energy here, but it is a mellow, laid-back feel. There is no aggressive peddling from shopkeepers here, and everybody is smiling and in no
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