Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Chillin In the Dalai Lama's Hood

After the chaos of Delhi and that horrendous bus ride I definitely needed a few days to chill out and re-align my Chi. Bhagsu was happy to provide. This small little town 2km outside of McLeod Ganj, home of the Dalai Lama, was a great, quiet little place to chill out, read a book and meet people. The latter is definitely the most interesting part of this place. The McLeod Ganj area attracts the hippiest of the hippies, spiritual people seeking life and spiritual answers. Just last night I was involved in a deep, hours long discussion with a few people about one world government conspiracies, astral plane travel and psychedelics. One of the guys was incredibly knowledgeable about the one world government conspiracy (if you can call it that), which is right up my alley. It became a little overbearing this morning when he spotted me at a cafe and we conspired for a couple more hours before he left to get breakfast, and then returned again to talk more, which was thankfully brief due to his breakfast getting cold in his absence.



Now the plan is to catch a bus tomorrow to Amritsar. Thankfully this bus ride is only about seven hours, and during the daytime so hopefully it should go by quicker.

3 comments:

  1. I'm glad to hear your chi has been restored. Another journey begins tomorrow, the land of the Golden Temple, how exciting. Are you travelling alone right now or is Emmin from New Yawk still with you? You haven't mentioned him so I'm going to assume you're on your own. The weather looks pleasant judging by your pictures. Happy trails !!!

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  2. Well glad to hear you spent some time conversing with the hippies on some hot topics. Enjoy all the sites and you best get "centered" before you hit the bus station again. haha

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  3. Yep Emin flew back home when we were in Delhi.

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