Almora 2nd - 7th Septmber
Local bus, easy ride to Almora even tho taxi guys wanted to take us to Almora for 8 bloody hundred!! I told the one guy to go whistle for 800, that really tickled David and stunned the driver. I lost/forgot my second umbrella of the trip. The weather is better already now, even tho it did pour the first day we arrived.
Almora (1646m) predates the Raj, 1560, and so has fantastic intricate cobbled alleys laced with carved wood and stone buildings. Its a major market town and is full of the excited bustle of new purchases - great window shopping! There is an Ashram here that Ghandi came too and serves as a local museum to the guy.
Another local festival!! Town was packed, a prossesion of loud and boisterious men carrying a god over there heads seemed to be the climax of the two day event. We witnessed a mobile tattooist brandasing people with ugly tats of reliogious thing, daggers and english spellings of names. The needle was the same for every man, the needle was powered by a car battery the whole thought of it madness and god knows what he uses as ink!
Kausani was a good over night stay, we where very luck to have an excellent view of the Himalayas while there the monsoon weather is clearing yet the clouds have yet to disperse fully - Ghandi came here too. Our drop of point in Almora from Kausani was not as expected, the bottom end of town but it lead us thro a lovely kind of surburbia come village where people where thrashing millet, drying chilli's on roofs and shouting at us for looking at there Buffalo, well one mean old lady, most everyone else was entreaded to see tourists strayed from the town. In Almora David fell in love with Indian sweet - he'd eat at least 5 a day!
I dyed my hair here with henna, its a bit red, Davids not too keen, I guess it'll calm soon - i hope! Again no phots they where eaten by the virus.
Almora (1646m) predates the Raj, 1560, and so has fantastic intricate cobbled alleys laced with carved wood and stone buildings. Its a major market town and is full of the excited bustle of new purchases - great window shopping! There is an Ashram here that Ghandi came too and serves as a local museum to the guy.
Another local festival!! Town was packed, a prossesion of loud and boisterious men carrying a god over there heads seemed to be the climax of the two day event. We witnessed a mobile tattooist brandasing people with ugly tats of reliogious thing, daggers and english spellings of names. The needle was the same for every man, the needle was powered by a car battery the whole thought of it madness and god knows what he uses as ink!
Kausani was a good over night stay, we where very luck to have an excellent view of the Himalayas while there the monsoon weather is clearing yet the clouds have yet to disperse fully - Ghandi came here too. Our drop of point in Almora from Kausani was not as expected, the bottom end of town but it lead us thro a lovely kind of surburbia come village where people where thrashing millet, drying chilli's on roofs and shouting at us for looking at there Buffalo, well one mean old lady, most everyone else was entreaded to see tourists strayed from the town. In Almora David fell in love with Indian sweet - he'd eat at least 5 a day!
I dyed my hair here with henna, its a bit red, Davids not too keen, I guess it'll calm soon - i hope! Again no phots they where eaten by the virus.
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