We've now been relaxing in Manali for 2 days which is a cute little town surrounded by tall mountains of trees, monkeys and rivers. Lots of Israeli's and weed here... We keep running into the 'survivors' of the bus trip from hell and luckily we're all over it now and having a laugh. A few of the passengers have filed Police Reports and one is getting an Indian friend to write a story about it for the newspaper. Apparently that type of bus ride is very rare (henc...

Holy Moley, we're alive!!! Unfortunately I'm quite serious about that - over the last 2 days I thought I may be food for the donkeys... We decided not to go trekking because there was some bad weather in Leh and if we wanted to wait it out it may have been over a week. So we decided the smart thing was to get a bus from Leh to Manali. Smart? It doesn't seem like it... I didn't want to get the local, public bus (for 2 days) so we forked out a tad more dosh and go...

Mendo enjoys a good perve. Not at women, as you may think but at any motorbike which bbbbrrrroooooooooms past or parked on the kerb. Late one night Mendo couldn't sleep - he was thinking about a large quote that we'd received that day to travel by jeep to Chumathang Hot Springs, Tso Moriri Lake and on to Manali. As I was sleeping peacefully, Mendo devised a plan to save us lots of $$$ and to give us more freedom. The next day we discussed it and after researching...