Matty!

So when I was in Dalhousie, trying to find a decent place to put up some pics, I ran in to Matt Jepson, all the way from Canberra. Matts in India for about 7 months to travel and for the major part, to teach first in Kolkatta, and then in a village in West Bengal.

Matts a dinky di sort of bloke, always has a smile on his face and is full of interesting stories, either from back in Aus or of his previous travels to South East Asia.

Anyways, as seems to be the thing to do, Matt also has a Blog, so check it out. His humour and character really comes oozing out....

Jallianwala Bagh

Golden Temple

The Golden Temple: don't really need to say much...

So...

...right now I'm in Shimla...the posts below are about Dalhousie, Kajjiar and Chamba...read from the bottom up...will make more sense...in the next couple of days will have more on amrisar, and jallianwalia bagh and hopefully, the border stuff...

btw, that email thing: i think i lied...don't think blogger can do it...

Chamba

From Kajjiar we went on to Chamba. Chamba is quite famous for hosting Aishwarya during the production of Taal. We even had a hotelier trying to tell us she did her yoga facing the sunrise, and all we could hear were the strains of Taal se taal mila...

Just a nice random bridge, now turned pedestrian by the demands of increased traffic (due to Ash?)

We went up to a a place called Jhumar, litterally 1600m straight above Chamba...all along you have these little hamlets of no more than 10 or 15 houses perched on cliff faces. Quite surreal. (and the pic looks wishy washy cos it was from a moving bus...)

More of the road up...
Chamba...
Just the three of us...dinner on the last night...

From Jhumar

Kajjiar

From Dalhousie, we - I was accompanied by Sounak and Rananjay from CORD, two of the senior Program Coordinators - went on to Kajjiar. There's really not much to do, but appreciate nature. That itself can take all day.

I really have heaps of pics to put up, but for now, I'll leave it at this...

The very Swiss Alps looks of Kajjiar...

Loved walking in the pine forests...
The road from Dalhousie to Kajjiar...

Kajjiar sunrise from our balcony...
Sounak, the NRI and Rananjay. We drove paralell to the snow capped mountains for about 15km or so. Land prices here are about Rs1 lakh (Rs100,000 = a bit more than AUD$3000 = BARGAIN!).
Kajjiar sunset...
Sunrise...
The mountains...
Wouldn't you love to live there?

Dalhousie

The view from our Rs250/per night room
Dalhousie sunsets...



The dramatic cliffs and steep inclines on the road to Dalhousie ...