Trip: Dharmashala, India, March - July 2012
There are [13] stories from my trip: Dharmashala, India, March - July 2012
INDIA | Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | Views [1110]
In 2010 and 2012 I spent three months (that's the longest visa I could get) teaching English as a volunteer at Tibet Charity in Dharamshala, India. My students were mostly Tibetans. Dharamshala is a community dominated by Tibetans in exile, ... Read more >
Tags: dalai lama, dharamsala, dharamshala, library, monkeys, monks, teaching, tibet, yeti
INDIA | Monday, 21 May 2012 | Photo Gallery
Pragpur is India's only heritage village, and lies just outside judge's Court, a lovely old family home which is now a hotel.
See all 15 photos >>
INDIA | Wednesday, 16 May 2012 | Views [2487]
Recently Gusti, Eva and I went to Kangra Fort, the Brigeschwari Devi temple in Kangra, Masroor temple and the Tatwani hot spring, as well as having a memorable lunch at Lanj / Lunj. We set off at 8am with Hardeep the taxi driver who had been ... Read more >
Tags: dharamsala, kangra fort, masroor, tatwani, temple
INDIA | Tuesday, 15 May 2012 | Photo Gallery
Masroor, Kangra Fort, Tatwani hot spring, lunch at Lunj
See all 10 photos >>
INDIA | Saturday, 12 May 2012 | Views [2490]
I’m sitting here feeling very full and satisfied after dinner in one of McLeod Ganj’s newest restaurants – and one of the most unusual. About five minutes’ walk down the road from Snow Height is Jogiwara Village, a small collection of houses, an ... Read more >
Tags: books, cafes, illiterati, mcleod ganj, restaurants
INDIA | Thursday, 3 May 2012 | Photo Gallery
See all 9 photos >>
INDIA | Thursday, 3 May 2012 | Views [1825]
Last Saturday Jocelyn, Gusti and I set off in a taxi from McLo at 7am to drive to Amritsar. We had two aims in mind for the weekend trip – to see the evening border-closing ceremony at Wagah on the India/Pakistan border, and to visit the famous Golden ... Read more >
Tags: golden temple; amritsar; wagah; india; pakistan;
INDIA | Thursday, 5 Apr 2012 | Views [2212] | Comments [2]
This semester at Tibet Charity we have teachers from New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Austria, Australia and the USA. The Austrian teacher Gusti and I ate at Namgyal café the other night. They have the most fantastic pizzas. That’s the great thing ... Read more >
Tags: debating, dharamsala, tibetan monks
INDIA | Saturday, 31 Mar 2012 | Views [2613]
This story appears in a slightly different form in my new book "The Yeti in the Library" which is on sale in paperback - contact me by email for details - and on Kindle and verious other e-book sites. www.goodreads.com/author/show/6433635.Gill_Winter ... Read more >
Tags: dharamsala, jamphel yeshi, self-immolation, tibet
INDIA | Monday, 26 Mar 2012 | Views [1226]
Sunday in Dharamsala - featuring a sit-in, a snow monkey and a Prime Minister
Last Sunday Jocelyn, Eva and I decided to go to St John’s stone church, which was built by the British in the nineteenth century when McLo was a ... Read more >
Tags: dharamsala, mcleod ganj, petition, snow monkey, united nations tibet
INDIA | Saturday, 17 Mar 2012 | Photo Gallery
See all 16 photos >>
INDIA | Saturday, 17 Mar 2012 | Views [994]
A couple of days ago we had our first monkey visitors. I woke up to hear chattering noises outside and went out onto the balcony to find a family of monkeys coming down the hill. The babies were bouncing around like mad on the roof above my room, peering ... Read more >
Tags: lhamos croissant, mcleod ganj
INDIA | Wednesday, 14 Mar 2012 | Views [963]
I'm sitting in Cafe 1 2 in McLo drinking lemon ginger honey and feeling very happy to be back. The old place is pretty much the same as last time except quite a lot colder - the mountains are covered in snow (beautiful) and there is a real chill in the ... Read more >
Tags: dharamsala, english teaching, mcleod ganj, mclo
