DAY 26 - MANALI In keeping with the slower pace of life up in the Himalayas, our day took a while to get going and we enjoyed a pleasant breakfast with one of the managers of the guest house as the sun slowly rose, chatting about the many contrasts we had noticed between the mountain towns and other areas of northern India. The weather couldn't have been more different to the day before's drizzly affair, so we decided to walk up to the main part of Old Manali an...

DAY 24 - SHIMLA/MANALI We left our hostel in the early morning and swiftly made our way down Shimla's sloped paths until we arrived at our coach's departure point near the railway station. Our coach was far from 'deluxe', as our tickets had advertised, but it was comfortable enough and the 9 hour journey passed with relative ease. Once again, the Himalayan scenery was a treat and we spent the majority of the journey glued to our windows, watching river rapids cu...