so i landed here in old manali, and went straight for this gust house mentioned in the lonely planet called apple view orchard. he has a very small two story family-run guest house surrounded by his family-inherited apple trees. very nic guy. adn there's a swiss girl who's spent 18 months in australia and so has a strange combination accent between german and aussie.. mostly aussie, which makes for interesting conversation for me..
its a bit of a walk to get there from anywhere.. old manali is quite spread out along this one windy uphill road, whereas vashisht was quite concentrated at the top of such a road. so last night i stayed in and had a productive writing ight, but kept myself up quite late and thus woke up quite late as well.. today i woke up to an idian tourist from delhi also staying at the gust house so we went for lunch into manali earlier.
i'm waiting impatiently for my camera to load and my ipod to charge .. sorry these pictures are mostly scenery as i'm too impatient right now to sort through them.. it seems every time i sit down to use the computer for a long time, i immediately have to pee ;) oh well.. anyhow this indian guy - kevi - keeps rattling off places i should see, but it's impossible to keep track of them all.. but Rahel - the swiss girl - started talking last night about this american fro colorado she'd been travelling with for a while, who's ow in rishikesh and afterwards is going to aurobindo (southeast).. from what she was saying he sounds quite similar to myself: lost in his own head with too much philosophizing,, on a 'spiritual quest' in india.. so she's going to email him and find out where he is and if i can meet up with him when i go to rishikesh (which should be shortly.. either via simla or chandigarh). so we'll see how that works out.. either way i'm going to rishikesh so..
anyhow i'm about finished with the pictures now.. sorry again for the repetitive landscapes.. i'll try to get more better picturs on ;)
mmmk..
