We're back in Delhi. It's boiling but bearable and infested with MEN - they're everywhere you look! I don't know where they hide away the women, but India sure is a mans world! We had a 2 day stop-over in Chandigargh which sounded good in the Lonely, but in reality was yuk. The train from Shimla to Kalka was heavenly - an toy train dripping with an old elegance of burgendy. The view was green mountains swirling with cloudy mists so thick that the little village...

I'm happy to say that our second bus experience was MUCH better than our first and we are safe and happy in Simla. Only 1 punctured tyre this time! Because I'm new at this Off Exploring website, I wrote a blog which I think is hard to find - so if you click on the Manali heading, there should actually be about 3 blogs, the best one I think is from our motorcycle adventure, which I accidentally wrote under Manali, but was really Leh. Also, our mobile works, hoo...

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...

Just a quicky - in a few days Mendo will go on a trek and I will update the blog. We have been on a 4 day motorbike adventure where we experienced snow, camping, monks, hot springs and sunburn in the Himalayas. We are safe and very happy. Love to all!