Category Archives: India 2015
LADAKH INDIAN TIBET …AND THE FESTIVAL
It was bizarre and slightly challenging for the senses to move from one culture and region of green rolling hills and thatched dwellings to another with a near barren landscape, Buddhist monasteries, stupas and fluttering prayer flags; but just two … Continue reading
NAGALAND INDIA .. FROM HEADHUNTERS TO BAPTISTS
Flying to Dibrugarh Airport in Assam took us over the devastating flooding of the Brahmaputra river, India’s only ‘male’ river ..pretty as it looked from the air, with the sun glistening on the water, underneath were 500,000 acres of destroyed … Continue reading
KASHMIR PARADISE ON EARTH ?
It was a two day drive from Manali to Srinigar, and most of the second day we were driving in Kashmir on the heavily guarded N1, with tanks, police machine gun posts and truck loads of Indian soldiers on permanent … Continue reading
FOOTHILLS OF THE HIMALAYAS , SIMLA AND MANALI
The drive from Haridwar to Simla or Shimla looked a short distance on the map but as with most of Indian roads it took longer than planned. Slow means more interesting though, and 5 minutes spent in a traffic jam … Continue reading
BACK TO DELHI AND ON TO HARIDWAR
I always found going back to Delhi exciting and this blog is an amalgam of back to Delhi from Nepal, and ten months later back to Delhi from France before a road trip up to Kashmir, which apparently was on … Continue reading
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