Manali Update!
You never know what will happen next here in India!!
I booked a coach to Daramasala as I felt it was time to move on, and then I met this really nice Isreali girl who is visiting a remote village on the Parvatti Valley route somewhere, and she invited me to join her, so I am! Luckiy here, cancelling coaches is not such a problem. So we leave Monday!
I am also about to contact a lead of a school of nomad children in Manali, so I will return here to follow this up before I move on to Daramasala(thanks for that Mumsey!)!
I have really bonded with my neighbours and next to my room today a local village lady invited me to her place for tea, and we had the most incredible discourse full of arm gestures and exaggerated facial expression as neither of us could understand each others language! Still, I managed to establish that she came from Lahoul, had one daughter and a bad head!!!
I visited Old Manali today which really was beautiful, full of classic wooden mountain houses. Also I found there a co-operative which make shawls. Shawls are very typical of the region between here and Manali, made from Angora, Yak and Sheep wool. Beautiful and incredibly warm too.
I have also been enjoying the Hot bath in the temple which is filled with the natural hot spring water every day. The womens bath is seperated from the mens and on one side are these taps, with the hot spring water gushing through and as the locals demonstrated to me on my first visit, you wash here (vigourously!!) and then at an extremely slow pace walk down the steps into this very hot bath on the other side. Some people don't like such heat, but I love it!! It is especially nice early morning or in the evening as it gets quite chilly here in the mountains.
I also have a local indian yoga teacher, who is incredibly strict! But a great teacher. He can do incredible postures that I can't ever imagine being able to do!
Well signing off now, will update on my adventures soon! xxx
I booked a coach to Daramasala as I felt it was time to move on, and then I met this really nice Isreali girl who is visiting a remote village on the Parvatti Valley route somewhere, and she invited me to join her, so I am! Luckiy here, cancelling coaches is not such a problem. So we leave Monday!
I am also about to contact a lead of a school of nomad children in Manali, so I will return here to follow this up before I move on to Daramasala(thanks for that Mumsey!)!
I have really bonded with my neighbours and next to my room today a local village lady invited me to her place for tea, and we had the most incredible discourse full of arm gestures and exaggerated facial expression as neither of us could understand each others language! Still, I managed to establish that she came from Lahoul, had one daughter and a bad head!!!
I visited Old Manali today which really was beautiful, full of classic wooden mountain houses. Also I found there a co-operative which make shawls. Shawls are very typical of the region between here and Manali, made from Angora, Yak and Sheep wool. Beautiful and incredibly warm too.
I have also been enjoying the Hot bath in the temple which is filled with the natural hot spring water every day. The womens bath is seperated from the mens and on one side are these taps, with the hot spring water gushing through and as the locals demonstrated to me on my first visit, you wash here (vigourously!!) and then at an extremely slow pace walk down the steps into this very hot bath on the other side. Some people don't like such heat, but I love it!! It is especially nice early morning or in the evening as it gets quite chilly here in the mountains.
I also have a local indian yoga teacher, who is incredibly strict! But a great teacher. He can do incredible postures that I can't ever imagine being able to do!
Well signing off now, will update on my adventures soon! xxx
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