We went to have breakfast at Oogo's again for waffles again. After breakfast, I set off to Tushita Meditation Center for meditation session while Elena went to LHA to meet the nun she’s supposed to have conversation session with. Tushita center is located high on the hill at Tushita Road. It took me almost 30 minutes to climb up from the bottom. The room was surprisingly packed. It was an hour session from 9.15 to 10.15 including Q&A session. The guide was a male (I found out from Neil that he’s from Netherlands on day 15). After the session, I went back hotel to rest before going to LHA to meet Elena for lunch. We had lunch at Jimmy’s Italian Kitchen. I had yummy tomato pasta and she had baked potato. After lunch, I went to ... read more

I woke up with very painful stomach in the morning. After vomiting and having diarrhea, I went to find doctors nearby but none was open early in the morning. So I went for my breakfast at Asian Plaza Terrace Restaurant and took Chinese diarrhea medicine before going to LHA to meet Rabsel and Elena for the tour (included in Orientation package by LHA). At 9 we started our tour in a cab. We visited CTA Central Tibetan Administration (used to be known as Tibetan Government in Exile). Then we went to Dharamsala and Dalai Lama's Summer Palace. The tour finished around 12, we went back to McLeod Ganj for lunch at Nick’s Italian Restaurant. After the lunch, my stomach pain was unbearable, so Rabsel brought us to Tibetan Delek Hospital near CTA. There, the doctor who ... read more

We had breakfast at 8.30 because we were supposed to meet Rabsel at 9.30 for introduction of the programme and the city. I had banana crepe at Café Budan, and Elena had toast. It's not bad, but the price was comparable to Singapore. Afterwards we met Rabsel, he brought us around and paid for our iced tea with lemon. It’s quite different from ice lemon tea in southeast asia because it was blended and the color was yellow. Couldn’t remember the name of the café. Then we parted ways with Rabsel and we went to Snow Lion for lunch. I had fried cheese vegetable momo (momo is a Tibetan cuisine) and mushroom soup (which is a thickened soup with a few slices of mushroom, not mushroom cream soup), while she had Chowmein (fried noodle with vegetables). ... read more

I had my breakfast in the room as they have no physical restaurant in the hotel, but they do have a café which serves only cakes and drinks. It feels weird for me, but anyway I ordered egg fried rice (of which I only finish a quarter) and chocolate milkshake (I did finish this one). I checked out around 11.30am and the staffs helped me brought my luggage to the office of the Tibet guy who picked me up from airport the day before; the office is located at the basement of the building where the hotel is; it’s a multi-purpose building. At the office, I told him that I want to go to the city for a walk and he told me I could take a rickshaw to nearest metro station, and I was shocked ... read more

We woke up early, around 6.30am for breakfast. After breakfast we set off to the last 2 dives. First dive of the day was Deep dive. The deepest we went was only 24m. I dived up to 22m before, so it didn't give me any different feeling. After the dive, I felt so dizzy, probably because the lack of food I had in the morning. Thus I decided to forgo the second dive, which is a leisure dive. Then we had our last lunch, showered, packed, and set off back to Mersing, and then back to Singapore. ... read more