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
