Archive for September, 2009

Paragliding over Manali

spent about a week in Manali.  This is quite a great place to get caught up.  I stayed in the Dharma Guesthouse in a room with a private balcony and the views in the morning and evening over the valley were breathtaking. I was completely lazy here.  My one major event was the day I [ READ MORE ]

Mountain Roads and Mortality

hope that the hardest of my travel in India is behind me.  The road from Jammu to Srinigar was crazy.  The road from Srinigar to Leh was worse and the road from Leh to Manali was washed out due to rain and early snow.  It was the most insane. The scenery was fantastic.  We travelled [ READ MORE ]

Buddhist Leh and Why Hippies Annoy Me

Kashmir is actually separated into several regions.  In the north, the Kashmir Valley makes up the western section, is predominantly Muslim, and is covered in forest.  The eastern section is called Ladakh, is mostly Buddhist and is a desert mountain region.  The city of Kargil, where India and Pakistan fought a war in 1999 separates [ READ MORE ]

Kashmiri Mountains Continued

Please read the previous post if you haven’t.  This is a continuation of that post: Anyway, at the end of the fourth day, we got to camp and as we were setting up, the Army told us we couldn’t camp there and we had to hike another click and about 300m up.  I was done.  I [ READ MORE ]

Kashmiri Mountains: Beauty and Discomfort

  The mountains of Kashmir must be the most beautiful in the world.  They are covered in forest to the tree line, grasses and greenery beyond.  Shepherds herd huge flocks of sheep and cattle through the hilly parts and gypsy huts dot the many rivers and lakes. The closest mountains I could compare them to [ READ MORE ]

Srinagar

ashmiris describe Kashmir as Paradise on Earth, but in 2000 Bill Clinton called it “the most dangerous place in the world.” After the partition of the Indian subcontinent along religious lines in 1947 at independence, Kashmir hesitated to join Pakistan despite its 77% Muslim population.  Pakistan invaded and Kashmir called on India for assistance. India [ READ MORE ]

Red Fort

  • September 9th, 2009
  • Posted in Sights

ne of the primary sites in Delhi is Red Fort.  Red Fort was built by the Mughal Emporor Shah Jahan, the same emperor who built the Taj Mahal for his wife.  Shah Jahan moved his court to Delhi and established it as the new capitol of an empire that covered the majority of India. The [ READ MORE ]

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