Kasol 'Little Telaviv' 7th - 16th August
The trip to Kasol was easy with it only being down the road. We saw Hen from Leh when we landed and he advised a nice and cheap place for us, a good family guest house. Again this is a place to explore the area on foot with traditional villages easy reached on foot.
The walk to Chalal was particularly exhilerating as it involved a indian jones type suspension bridge or a fast and furious river. The Paravati area is know for its raging waters and beautiful mountains. Chalal was where we lost our ace of earts to a gust of wind, we have a new card now - yes we are too stingy to buy a 20R new pack!
The food here is good, we are getting very familiar with the Isreali cuisine and we are still able to get excellent momo's.
The family we are staying with invited us to their brother and sister cermony. A day were the sister (of course) praises the brother (like they could never praise each other? - sorry some animosity for the male dom system here, it sucks). It was however, lovely to watch if a little long - two brothers to five sisters each with individual cermonies.
We bumped into Michel (Leh) here also and went to take part in the Isreali wedding that day... crazy tere where about 3-400 people tier intisied by te propect of free food! The Rabi guys made sure everyone was drunk fillin up glasses with your rank spirit of choice - neat, they were wrecked. After was a trance party obilgitory to the isreali religion!
Manikaran was an interesting place to visit. On arrival we felt like celebs everyone wanted their photo with us! It is a town revered holy by sikhs and hindus, with mythical storys behind the origins of the boiling hot springs there. Its baba heaven, they sit and smoke chillums allday then pester you for money when they are dry! The town was on the river and the banks where strune with rubbish.
The hot springs bellowed out steam, it is possible to cook rice in the waters here. The temple complex was massive, full of small nooks and crannies. The hot caves where especially amazing as you had to crawl thro small holes in the walls to get to them. David was in for a surprise the place was full of religious tat shops , with 3 girls the trip soon turned to a shopping opportunity!
From Kasol we visted Jari for post (where the most miserable man in the world worked) and waxing oppurtunities. Michel and Ifat were particularly pleased to find a lady waxer - most are male...imagine!
Kasol is well known in the isreali circles for regular trance parties, being in the area we thought it rude not to go, we left at 4a.m. to go and left at 13.00. It was a good experience to see the sun come up at a party, yet the music (or d.j's) weren't really capturing us.
The walk to Chalal was particularly exhilerating as it involved a indian jones type suspension bridge or a fast and furious river. The Paravati area is know for its raging waters and beautiful mountains. Chalal was where we lost our ace of earts to a gust of wind, we have a new card now - yes we are too stingy to buy a 20R new pack!
The food here is good, we are getting very familiar with the Isreali cuisine and we are still able to get excellent momo's.
The family we are staying with invited us to their brother and sister cermony. A day were the sister (of course) praises the brother (like they could never praise each other? - sorry some animosity for the male dom system here, it sucks). It was however, lovely to watch if a little long - two brothers to five sisters each with individual cermonies.
We bumped into Michel (Leh) here also and went to take part in the Isreali wedding that day... crazy tere where about 3-400 people tier intisied by te propect of free food! The Rabi guys made sure everyone was drunk fillin up glasses with your rank spirit of choice - neat, they were wrecked. After was a trance party obilgitory to the isreali religion!
Manikaran was an interesting place to visit. On arrival we felt like celebs everyone wanted their photo with us! It is a town revered holy by sikhs and hindus, with mythical storys behind the origins of the boiling hot springs there. Its baba heaven, they sit and smoke chillums allday then pester you for money when they are dry! The town was on the river and the banks where strune with rubbish.
The hot springs bellowed out steam, it is possible to cook rice in the waters here. The temple complex was massive, full of small nooks and crannies. The hot caves where especially amazing as you had to crawl thro small holes in the walls to get to them. David was in for a surprise the place was full of religious tat shops , with 3 girls the trip soon turned to a shopping opportunity!
From Kasol we visted Jari for post (where the most miserable man in the world worked) and waxing oppurtunities. Michel and Ifat were particularly pleased to find a lady waxer - most are male...imagine!
Kasol is well known in the isreali circles for regular trance parties, being in the area we thought it rude not to go, we left at 4a.m. to go and left at 13.00. It was a good experience to see the sun come up at a party, yet the music (or d.j's) weren't really capturing us.
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