Category Archives: India

We awoke to brilliant sunshine and joined the throngs of people migrating their way towards the Tsuglagkhang Temple Complex where the Dalai Lama was due to speak. People were pretty excited as they made their way down the hills and we certainly were too. We weren’t the first to arrive by any stretch of theContinue reading “Seeing the Dalai Lama”

We had decided try and find somewhere a little more secluded in the mountains than McLeod Ganj and we happened across a small paragraph in the Lonley Planet about a valley that pretty much ticked all the boxes. We chose a guesthouse that was one of three online in the area and caught a taxiContinue reading “Tirthan View Homestay”

The view up the valley from our bed was spectacular to wake up to this morning and we grinned at each other as to how well we had done to find this place. The only slight issue was the 197 steps we had to hike up to get to the main part of the guestContinue reading “Fishing?”

We were looking forward to some hiking in and around the valley over the next few days but I bloody got sick didn’t I. So the next two days I didn’t venture very far from the cabin, though it was a pretty beautiful setting to sit around and recover. Except for the stairs up toContinue reading “Hiking in Tirthan Valley”

Stretching and winding along a ridge the 12 km sprawl of Shimla was created by the British as a place to escape the summer heat. Our guest house was about 4km out of the centre and had superb views from the balcony (from the bed really) back across the valley to the town itself. OurContinue reading “Shimla”

We should have learnt our lesson from McLeod Ganj when it comes to spiritual places in India but we had both set the bar high for our next spiritual encounter. Set on the banks of the Ganges, Rishikesh is a very holy place for Indians with hundreds of thousands coming each year to swim inContinue reading “Rishikesh “

After our lovely few days relaxing in the hills we decided to go check out Haridwar which is supposedly one of five holiest cites in India. Situated on the Ganges just 30kms downriver from Rishikesh we had a pretty uneventful bus journey out of the mountains until we hit the outskirts of Hardiwar and cameContinue reading “Haridwar”

We left Haridwar this morning to travel the 200km to Ramnagar in the usual 40 degree heat. Unfortunately there were no air conditioned busses available and we couldn’t use the “fearing for our lives” excuse and hiring a taxi. The thing is once the bus gets going the wind is slightly cooling, the only irritatingContinue reading “Corbett National Park”