Wednesday, 26 August 2009

mcleod ganj part II

howdy,

just thought i would write about how excellently EXCELLENT india is as a destination. we've had such a lovely time thus far (more so as we've got further north), i cant beleive i was so worried about it before i left. Today we've had an excellent time walking up the cloudy himalayas with two amazing israeli friends we made on our INSANE 10 hour government bus ride from manali to daramsala (they helped us tie our bags to the roof with some random old rope...), went straight to an hour class where we helped teach a group of tibetan refugee monks english, to two INSANE hours of pain filled yoga, watching lovely and heartwrenching documentaries on attempts by tibetans to flee to india, night-time visits to temples, lovely vegetarian tibetan foods, agressive haggling over posters of the dali lama (50 rupees... and he wouldnt budge!), and elicit feeling trips to the alcohol shops to buy a single bottle of beer.

yikes, internet cafe is closing again, this whole town is dead by 9 and entirely shut by 10... our hotel even has an 11pm curfew!

lots of love to you all

xoxoxoxooxox

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