The highlight of my trip so far!! I've seen the Dalai Lama! I attended one of several teachings that the Dalai Lama has been doin in Mcleod Ganj. His schedule has been cut right back cos of health, so as well as seeing him again next tuesday I came today as well and ditched my teaching. I was less than 1 metre away from him on a couple of occasions...he's only a small guy, but seemed to me to be pretty strong in body as well as mind. He talked about various st...

Hey guys I'm stuck in Leh at the moment...the weather was pretty bad this morning, so they cancelled my flight. Anyhow...here's the story so far in Leh... It lives up to its name as the medieval capital of Ladakah (region of India - more people of tibetan origin here than Indian) so its a really friendly place and quite laid back. The palace here was built in the 17th Century and is pretty a smaller version of the Potala palace in Lhasa, Tibet. We arrived at ...

I'M ALIVE!!!! That was the most thrilling, scariest and amazing trip of my life! I'm gonna have to break the 3 day overland journey here into 3 bits on here cos so much happened every day! So..... Palampur to Manali We set off on a crowded local bus to Manali taking 8 hrs in all. It was eventful from the start, on leaving Palampur, there was a fight on the street, everyone piled out of the bus to wtach including the bus driver, 20 mins later there was a armty...

Hey guys the map shows Leh, but won't be there until sunday. Thought I'd just inform of my impending adventure. We are taking (8 of us) a Jeep from Manali to Leh over the 2nd highest road passs in the world (its like a moonscape up there), incidentley the highest is next to leh (Nubru valley). We are prepping for altitude sickness and the amazxing journey that awaits us..I'll psot pics asap. We are leaving early hours ofd the morning from Manali and stopping ha...

Hey guys Firstly my ribs are a bit better, just sore when I lie down and cough etc...read on net it can take upto 4weeks to heal! I've been drinkin hot ginger, lemon and honey drinks for my cold, which is soooo nice! I've come back to McLeod for the weekend as the group went trekin here, so I booked into a hotel for thje night, meeting up with thme later. See pic of Om Gusest house, owned by Tibeatns. The ride here on friday was pretty hairrasing, we wemt thr...