Dharamsala Travel Blogs

After a train and bus trip to Rishikesh- where we wanted to look into a Yoga retreat-  It wasnt till we got there and we didnt like what we saw we headed onwards and got a overnight bus to Dharamsala- the home town of the Dalai Lama living in exile! We rocked up into town along with Katie from…

MEDITATION: A lot of you (friends and family) have been asking me about my 10-day silent Buddhist meditation experience.  It's easier to explain in person, but let me try....  First, you should know that it was unimaginably unforgettable, amazing and priceless.  In a…

This day I had planned to do nothing at all. I woke up around 10:30, and had planned to clean up again, but there was no water at that time. Damn. Anyway, I had planned to check into a different place down the road. I gathered my stuff, settled the rent and checked into a dorm. Had the dorm room al…

Hello everyone, Things are going very well here at the moment.  I'm preparing to leave for Amritsar for the weekend to see the Golden Temple.  Six of us have rented a taxi to drive us the five hour distance for a little over $100.00.  I'm excited because we will also be visiting the…

Country life in Himachal Pradesh. Rich land, poor farmers. It's six o'clock in the morning and the first streaks of light are in the sky as we drive along the narrow streets of Dharamsala and continue up the road that climbs through pine, oak and rhododendron woods to the less mellifluous sounding …

Weekend in the Himalayas. 12 hour winding ride up on the bus. I chucked even, but it was worth it.

1 Sept. A heavy storm overnight brought a clear morning, with the views from the bedroom visible again. We breakfasted on the terrace of Nick's Italian Cafe, with a couple of eagles soaring overhead, but soon lost touch with them as the cloud moved in again. A monkey clambered over the terrace. We …

places i have travelled so far..

So....I wake up at 6 a.m. in Agra, and we head to Delhi to get me to my noon flight to Amritsar.  With the roads and traffic in India, I'm quite worried till we head out.  The road between Agra and Delhi is the nicest in India, and the traffic was very light.  I unfortunately had som…

A year long road trip driving from Sydney to Southampton in a BMW X5 checking out progress on the Asian Highway Project and visiting 100 world heritage sites along the way

People! Despite the kind requests I don't think my updates will be as long now!  Things become less daunting and so I will probably forget to write about some extraordinary things.  Despite that I did see a cow sat in a garage yesterday and I got slapped by a monkey.&nbs…

Delhi, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, the Thar desert, Pushkar, Udaipur, Ajanta, Ellora, Mandu, Khajuraho, Orchha, Rishikesh, Manali and Dharamsala.

Eerst 25 dagen Ladakh, en dan.... 4 maanden vrijwilligerswerk in Dharamsala, hoe spannend kan het zijn!

My decision was taken, I would come and live in India.This Indian philosophy of life, whether it is called Sanatan Dharma, SIKH or Dharma, or by any other name is my first love. Other reasons ensue from it.Nothing pleases more that to see that since the beginning of the 1990s, India had taken a…

“You will not find abundant wealth without finding by its side the rights of people that have been trampled.”   “No rich morsel is eaten without there being in it the hunger of those who have worked for it.”   from the sayings of the Islamic Shia thinker Ali