It clearly needs some courage to rent an indian motorbike and hit the streets here. The other option, to be rattled to near unconciousness in the bus for far more time, is even less attractive. So we descide to visit Manali, a small town at 2000m in the midst of 6000m mountains.
The drive itself turns out to be good, a little cold though. Manali itself is a nice place, unluckily we come too soon, season is just starting. But we chill out for 3 days and visit the hot springs (they are really really hot!), explore old manali with its stone and wooden houses and have some really nice food. (Finally MEAT!)
On the way home we stop in Mandi and are immediately attacked by crazy screaming indians. But instead of eating us alive they colour us and wish us happy holi! What the hell is happy holi we thought so we googled and found out thats an holiday to celebrate the end of winter season.
Back in Bir we are happy to fly again. We enjoy a wonderful sunset while soaring over the takeoff. Today the forecast was very promising, so we tried for some XC. Unfortunately the clouds soon grew together and formed a dark mass. Climbing to 3600m in the morning seems nice, but beeing sucked into a already brabbeling dark cloud seems idiotic. The original plan, to fly to Dharamsala soon evaporated. But luckily my superfast glider brought me out of this misery. Hope the conditions grow better. Up to now there weren't too many good days.
But see for yourselfes.
The drive itself turns out to be good, a little cold though. Manali itself is a nice place, unluckily we come too soon, season is just starting. But we chill out for 3 days and visit the hot springs (they are really really hot!), explore old manali with its stone and wooden houses and have some really nice food. (Finally MEAT!)
On the way home we stop in Mandi and are immediately attacked by crazy screaming indians. But instead of eating us alive they colour us and wish us happy holi! What the hell is happy holi we thought so we googled and found out thats an holiday to celebrate the end of winter season.
Back in Bir we are happy to fly again. We enjoy a wonderful sunset while soaring over the takeoff. Today the forecast was very promising, so we tried for some XC. Unfortunately the clouds soon grew together and formed a dark mass. Climbing to 3600m in the morning seems nice, but beeing sucked into a already brabbeling dark cloud seems idiotic. The original plan, to fly to Dharamsala soon evaporated. But luckily my superfast glider brought me out of this misery. Hope the conditions grow better. Up to now there weren't too many good days.
But see for yourselfes.
monkey / Manali / the hot water springs
Royal Enfield dreams / our dog-friend / old Manali
hot springs again / Stefanie with ice cream (very happy) / old Manali from Vashisht view
Haha - paragliding Tandem offers / washing women / pilgrims in orange
Happy holy and happy Stefanie
united colours of Stefranzie
Happy indians and pilots / Stefanie just after take off at sunset
Armageddon? / sunset soarer
soaring in the calm evening air - there's nothing better
high Himalayas / clouds slowly combining / me getting exhausted with the conditions
The cloud before entry ... / ... and after exit / after landing
Here you can find the track on Xcontest
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3 Kommentare:
the hot springs dont look very hygienic!! :)))) did you try to go in??
and the dude with the mustage looks a bit aggressive.. he surely likes to grab by the neck..
"United colours of Stefranzi" -DSC_1651.jpg- Beautiful picture! Ich wünsch euch weiterhin einen schönen Trip und geniesst Africa. Bis bald~~
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