Here’s a video from the ride to Bijli Mahadev: If the link doesn’t come through, click on: http://youtu.be/FBZdDGKMAYw
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Bijli Mahadev
Yesterday Buddhi and I went for a little ride to see a remote temple, Bijli Mahadev. Biji Majadev is a temple to Shiva (the Destroyer). There’s a large pole that serves basically as a lightening rod. Every March a lightening strike comes through the temple and shatters the lingham (linham=penis), which is made of metallic
Yesterday Buddhi and I went for a little ride to see a remote temple, Bijli Mahadev. Biji Majadev is a temple to Shiva (the Destroyer). There’s a large pole that serves basically as a lightening rod. Every March a lightening strike comes through the temple and shatters the lingham (linham=penis), which is made of metallic
Bring in the Monkeys
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday we went riding (more on that in the next post–those take me longer) in the rain, but then it cleared. Today, Thursday, dawned coll, sunny, and glorious. I’ve come to really like Manali–can you not when you spend time in a place where you can call downstairs and
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday we went riding (more on that in the next post–those take me longer) in the rain, but then it cleared. Today, Thursday, dawned coll, sunny, and glorious. I’ve come to really like Manali–can you not when you spend time in a place where you can call downstairs and
A Day with Rain
It’s cold, wet and rainy here in Manali. It rained most of yesterday, too, but cleared up long enough for Buddhi and I to walk down the hill in Old Manali and have dinner without getting too wet. Tandoori chicken and a Banana Lassi. Yum! The droning downpour was terrific for sleeping, and I stayed
It’s cold, wet and rainy here in Manali. It rained most of yesterday, too, but cleared up long enough for Buddhi and I to walk down the hill in Old Manali and have dinner without getting too wet. Tandoori chicken and a Banana Lassi. Yum! The droning downpour was terrific for sleeping, and I stayed
YouTube Video–riding in the Indian Himalayas
Third video: (which also can be found on YouTube HERE if the link does not work)
Third video: (which also can be found on YouTube HERE if the link does not work)
YouTube Video–riding in the Himalayas (Rohtang Pass-pile of corpses)
Below is another video, also from our last day of riding on the Leh-Manali Highway traversing Rohtang Pass. This video shows typical riding conditions in the Himalayas of northern India. Here’s what Wikipedia says about Rohtang Pass: Rohtang Pass (Hindi: रोहतांग दर्रा) (Bhoti: Rohtang , lit: pile of corpses,[1] due to people dying in bad
Below is another video, also from our last day of riding on the Leh-Manali Highway traversing Rohtang Pass. This video shows typical riding conditions in the Himalayas of northern India. Here’s what Wikipedia says about Rohtang Pass: Rohtang Pass (Hindi: रोहतांग दर्रा) (Bhoti: Rohtang , lit: pile of corpses,[1] due to people dying in bad
YouTube Video–riding in the Himalayas (sheep crossing)
This was our last day of riding on the tour–we’d just left Jispa and were headed up and over the mountains back to Manali.
This was our last day of riding on the tour–we’d just left Jispa and were headed up and over the mountains back to Manali.
MAG in Manali
I’m taking a few rest/catch-up days in Manali, after our two-week motorcycle excursion through the Indian Himalayas with Buddhi Singh Chand and Motorcycle Expeditions. If you want to take a map-look at some of the places I’ve been (including the world’s highest motorable road at over 17,000 feet!), click on over to http://spotwalla.com/embed.php?id=54e850448a1d89549&width=600&height=600&scale=on&zoom=default&refresh=no (If that
I’m taking a few rest/catch-up days in Manali, after our two-week motorcycle excursion through the Indian Himalayas with Buddhi Singh Chand and Motorcycle Expeditions. If you want to take a map-look at some of the places I’ve been (including the world’s highest motorable road at over 17,000 feet!), click on over to http://spotwalla.com/embed.php?id=54e850448a1d89549&width=600&height=600&scale=on&zoom=default&refresh=no (If that