Kate's Adventures in India: Winter Wonder India!!

So this is Manali!! Remember I told you we took a 3 day trip here? The thing to note here is that we went by ourselves. No translator, no friends, just me and Tori and 2 months of Indian experience. The fact that we made it to our hotel after the bus almost left us as a gas station and then ended up dropping us off at the wrong place anyways is a miracle...But we did it! Be proud :)

Our hotel! We were so excited to be on our own little vacation! And to be out of the city! And to be able to breath in air without coughing!

So the animals in Manali were a little on the extraterrestial side. Observe specimens 1 and 2. Yes that is a rabbit. And the second picture ...lets just say it took a while for me to realize that all the baby cows I was seeing were actually dogs.

Now yes, you can consider Manali a tourist spot...but its a spot for Indian tourists, not international tourists...we figured this one out when we only met one white person the entire trip, and he was some crazy hippie from Wales. This is the town wash/bath, busy as usual.

One of the temples we explored.

Prayer wheels.

So here's the part you can laugh at...We thought it was hilarious...

Our guide didn't believe that we'd done this before...haha

Up until this point I had always thought that yaks were mythical creatures.

Riding horses up a mountian..

Welcome to our life of not knowing what anything says ever. Seriously I'm going to get home and just instinctly ignore every road sign etc. This sign could be telling us so many things..."Do Not Enter", "Danger Ahead", directions, names, I don't know!

So our horses take us to the top then we get off to cross the river by foot..

All to get to this. Oh, the temple's there, its just really tiny. And see those icy steps? If we wanted to go see the temple we crossed the river to see we'd have to climb them...without shoes. So we took a picture from the bottom instead :)

BUT there was a sweet ride!