Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Into the mountains


For my next long overdue post, here are some pictures of Kasol, a mountain town in Himachal Pradhesh. In order to get there you have to drive up terrifyingly windy dirt roads that are cut into the mountain. It's hard to figure out whether you want to close your eyes until it's over or have them glued to the driver and the road in case there is anything you can do to prevent disaster. But only 11 hours after leaving Delhi (that qualifies as a short trip here), you arrive in a cool beautiful place. A little town in the mountains, with a ridiculous amount of Falafel and weed, but also with incredible hikes to other beautiful villages, a raging river, and yak gouda!




The view from the hotel in Kasol

A parade of neon goats


Drinking mango lassi by the river


Rasta = dreds 


Getting Shanti and warming up with chai in a cafe on a roof top


The town


Mountain village houses


The first stop on the hike - colorfully clothed girls playing hopscotch 





Lots of things growing here



Beautifully dressed woman hauling tar for road construction


The hike 


the reward


View from the hotel -- really a treehouse




The outhouse that I had to grope around for in the dark in the middle of the night, why yes, that is a massive cliff right beside it.

Love, 
Violet

Monday, January 13, 2014

Jaipur and Udaipur

While I am stuck in the states (woe is me: clean air to breathe and eating steamed vegetables without anyone making fun of me) I have decided to catch up on some posts and upload photos. These pictures were taken last March on my trip to Jaipur and Udaipur with Anika around Holi.

Scaffolding in Jaipur

One of the many floating beauties in Udaipur 


Touring an expensive Haveli - if you can manage to smell good enough to afford it, they let you look around. Not as easy as it sounds.


Spying from the roof

Monkeys hang out - it's crazy how often they seem like humans

Ganesh 







Love,
Violet