A Week In Manali

After another nightmare 12 hour bus ride where the seats are spaced perfectly for the optimum position of discomfort we arrived in the Himalayan town of Manali in Northern India. Nestled in a large valley full of tiny villages and apple orchards we found ourselves a beautiful guest house away from the road set in the middle of an orchard.

For the past week we've been living the easy life, sitting out on the balcony (see photo bleow) reading, eating and generally taking in the scenery while apple blossom rains down in the spring breeze.... paradise. The Apple View Guesthouse is a pretty simple affair, but he owner and people we have met are so nice it would be possible to stay a month or more (many people do just this!). We are pretty much coming to the end of our Inidan adventure and it's becoming every more difficult to travel around and see the sights as we did in the beginning, it's all too easy to find a quiet place to relax and chill out before facing the opposite culture shock of returning to Europe.

With just one more destination (Rishikesh) to travel to before returning to Delhi we are difinitley loooking forward to returning to the civilised world.