Kathmandu! What to do in Kathmandu! Well quite a few things can be done in Kathmandu, since it seemed like every other day, and sometimes, everyday, was a festival! Being cynical I could say that festivals are there to keep the masses entertained and distracted from real issues, but putting a nice light on it …
Tag Archive: Himalayas
Bandipur
Now that I’m in Manchester I have access to 24 hour high speed internet, and also I have access to a much faster computer so I can edit photographs at high speeds. So I plan to put more photo’s here over the next weeks, if I don’t its because i’m lazy. All of these photographs …
Nepal and India are different countries.
Nepal and India are very different countries, going to a new country always surprises me, I wouldn’t have thought that Nepal was that different to India, it’s right next to it, you just hop across a land border that isn’t very strict, the first place I went too could actually have been India, but now …
Vipassana:-in the Buddhist tradition means insight into the nature of reality.
So I did the retreat, and I found it very difficult, but very interesting upon reflection and very rewarding. My mind cycles very very quickly, and I have been aware for a long time that I need a lot of stimulation to keep it interested, so the difficulty came when i removed all stimulation’s! Its …
Arrival to Nepal.
So now I am in Nepal. There was some mild relief upon arrival as I was in India with a visa extension that I grew more and more dubious about, especially when I heard the lawyer that helped me obtain it had been arrested for making false visa extensions. On the border though they didn’t …
Dharamsala To Ladakh, a life affirming bus journey and a look at stillness.
I have just been completed one of the most amazing journeys I have been on. It lasted 4 days, it spanned temperatures from 45c to below 0, from a few hundred meters above sea level to heights that impede breathing. However, despite all this a major highlight of the journey was the feeling that the …
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