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Umeå -> Delhi
Mikael: "most of the snow has actually melted away already" ... Before flying out to Delhi I stopped by home in Sweden, and visited my brothers who are studying far up north in Umeå..was thinking that...
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Dharamsala
View from McLeod Ganj (Dharamsala upper town). Dharamsala, or the upper town McLeod Ganj where we stayed, is a gorgeous little spot. In one direction lies the deep valley below (McLG is at 1750 m...
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Meditation Retreat
View from Tushita In McLeod Ganj we signed up for a 10-day silent meditation retreat at Tushita on a hill above town. The accommodation was pretty basic, dorm rooms and bucket showers, but the location...
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Golden temple of Amritsar
We walked in to a travel agent in Dharamsala to ask for transport to Amritsar just as he had finished explaining to a nice Irish lady that there was only a 1% chance that he would be able to find...
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Road to Manali
The Amritsar-Manali bus was 16 hours long and left at 2pm – they actually swapped driver once along the way which was nice to see (the 12 hour Dharamsala bus had only a single driver..). The first...
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Road safety report
I will post a longer post in a little while about our 9-day jeep safari to the Spiti valley..for now here is an illustrated “road safety report” Day one. Day two. Day three. Day four. Day five. Day...
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Journey to Spiti (part 1)
Day one – to Sarahan We’re doing this in the wrong direction and at the wrong time..as usual. The route to Spiti valley from Manali is normally done as a circular circuit, but two of the high mountain...
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Journey to Spiti (part 2)
Day five – Dhankar and Pin Dhankar monastery. Dhankar is taken from a mystical fairytale..some flecks of white paint scattered to the Himalayan winds and landed on the most improbable location high on...
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Toytrain from Shimla
View over Shimla. After the luxury of Sunil looking after us in the jeep for 9 days the public bus to Shimla from Rampur was a bit of a shock – all the chai-wallahs, ice-cream-wallahs and...
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Andaman Islands
Dive boat on Havelock. We’re getting to the Andaman’s out of season as usual.. The month of May here brings with it the monsoon and the possibility of violent cyclones…but it’s also the best season to...
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Taking the bus…
The Paharganj street in Delhi. After flying back from Port Blair on the Andaman islands we spent a few days in Delhi sorting out our Chinese visas, then set our course east to try and see wild tigers...
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In tiger country, studying medieval eroticism
Langur monkey by Umaria station After all the fun with the bus to get to Agra (..see previous post) the train-journey onwards seemed almost dull it was so organized – our names were on the printed...
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The holy city and the poison river
This turned out to be one of those posts where I moan and complain about things..I promise the next one will be about natural beauty and the kindness of others! Before leaving Khajuraho for Varanasi I...
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A little bit up, a little bit down
Edel rowing on the Phewa Tal lake by Pokhara. Pokhara in Nepal is described as a great place to relax after a long hard trek or any time spent in India, and it is. At 800 meters altitude it’s...
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A new member of the Glynn-Camasura Clan!
The best news of the year so far is – as of 6th of July at 6.57 pm -David and I have a new nephew Mr. Daniel Matthew Glynn. Wohoo! Big Hugs from us to Super Mammy June, Daddy Aidan and Big Bro James....
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Staying alive in rhino country
We arrived off the bus in Chitwan and were greeted by 20-30 different touts all trying to bring us to their jungle lodge – it felt more like India than the peaceful Nepal we’d gotten used to, though...
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In Tibet (sort of, almost..)
After leaving Chitwan we went to Kathmandu to try to organize somehow getting into Tibet. All information we had found so far, from guidebooks, the internet and other travellers, had been...
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First impressions of China
The city of Chengdu in China felt very modern when we arrived; streets without garbage, taxis that run by the meter, seat-belts, mini-skirts – all the hallmarks of great civilization . Also, like when...
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In Tibet (for real this time)
Prayer wheels by Namtso lake at 4700m. We flew in to Lhasa in Tibet at 3700 meters, and spent the first day taking it easy to get used to the altitude. Lhasa today looks like any other modern booming...
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In the path of totality
One of nature's greatest spectacles! After getting off the 47-hour Lhasa-Chengdu train we got a bus straight down to Emei Shan again, to try to be on the top of the mountain for the July 22 (..yes, I’m...
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