Trip: Shimla and Dharamsala
There are [9] stories from my trip: Shimla and Dharamsala
INDIA | Saturday, 24 Nov 2007 | Views [1396]
....letters from my friends are part of my connection with "home", even though the sense of home , you are right, is very fuzzy at the moment: at times it is memories of our previous orderly and comfortable but stressful lives, (Teodora often ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
INDIA | Monday, 8 Oct 2007 | Views [2166]
Smiles of India People here smile. Not everyone, not all the time, but often enough to notice. Their smile seems different from smiles of Eastern Europeans, who's smiles often have a conflicted, self-conscious and sarcastic nature. ... Read more >
Tags: People
INDIA | Saturday, 6 Oct 2007 | Views [2049]
One of the great joys in our travels is meeting new people, other travellers like us. Story upon story gradually make their imprint on me. Young singles and couples, couples with children, people in the 60s and 70s, whether single or couples-all gladly ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
INDIA | Saturday, 6 Oct 2007 | Views [2403]
Ode to Indian squat toilette For those of you who have undying interest in toilette activities-I say: rest assured. Any experience of Indian culture is not complete without the experience of this age old routine, renewed daily. Considering high density ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
INDIA | Wednesday, 5 Sep 2007 | Views [2331]
views from the rooftop at our small hotel... Small and ancient Siva temple in the centre of the village..it has a bath complex with hot sping water.. Kulu (one of the Himalayan tribes) woman we met on the road to ... Read more >
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INDIA | Thursday, 16 Aug 2007 | Views [4376]
After doing 2 days retreat at Tushita Monastery, with some trepidation we signed up for 10 days Vipassana retreat. The course's description sounded very serious (and as we found out , accurate): waking up at 4:30am, meditating for 11 hours daily, complete ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
INDIA | Wednesday, 15 Aug 2007 | Views [1962]
It was a nice trip by autoriksha. From Dharamsala, we climbed high to the green hills for about 20 min. The village itself was enveloped in what seemed like a permanent cloud of myst. In the office, Tashi, a Tibetan woman dressed in traditional ... Read more >
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INDIA | Friday, 10 Aug 2007 | Views [3609]
Views from our house A street in Dharamsala Want some meat? come a tickle me... Autoriksha braving hilly roads around Dharamsala Mistical cows eating rabage.. Dear Friends and Family, it has been three months already ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
INDIA | Tuesday, 7 Aug 2007 | Views [1070]
full story is coming soon.... you can view more pictures from Shimla at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69781927@N00/sets/72157601875454392/detail/
Tags: Philosophy of travel
