McLeod Ganj Travel and Tourism Guide

Returning to McLeod, a 10 minute walk, was a harsh contrast to the silence of the removed Vipassana Meditation Center.  Horns, cars, motorcycles and auto-rickshaws raced through the narrow shop-lined avenues.  I hung tight to the gutters, a bit shaken from re-entry.  Traveling with Aman and Anupam, we grabbed a R100 ($2.50) room at a small monastery.  1 1/2 days quickly passed as I reunited with Melinda, sick with a stomach bug, and Dan, returning from Tushita.  The V...

After 10 days of meditation and studying Buddhist philosophy, I returned to the village of Mcleod Ganj - to the real world....  Well, if this part of India is the real world.  It was strange for me to be in a village with stores, restaurants and people!  I felt hyper-sensitive and overwhelmed with all the movement and busy-ness of life, eventhough Mcleod Ganj is a small village. I took a few days to relax, hike, shop and absorb my meditation experience - and to ...

This was one of those great unplanned moments of our year travelling: we managed to turn up in McLeod Ganj, home of the Dalai Lama, in exactly the week when he was giving a series of talks, which meant that we were able to go along and see him speak. The bus trip to McLeod Ganj was along some fantastic winding roads from Dalhousie. The bus actually went to Dharamsala, at the bottom of the hill, and we got a taxi up the steep streets to McLeod Ganj at the top - quite a fun ride all in all. W...

 i've come to mcleodganj in the himalays & it is heaven compared to delhi .... on our way here we stopped for breakfast at this small cafe & there were a bunch of other travellers also taking breakfast & before they left the elderly man who seemed to be in charge came over & started a conversation with us ..... he turned out to be non other than sogyal rinpoche who is the author of the tibetan book of living & dying .... we took this to be a really good omen for ...