Day 03 Incredible India!!
24 August 2009
I left the guest house at 7 am to make my intended visit to a nearby temple, MANU temple. Cutting across a local village, there is definitely local flavor life in this part of the town.
Along the way, I stumbled a group of workers carrying basket full’s of apples. Here is my chance, let’s tail them. After a short 20min trek behind them, I end up at the Apple Cottage farm, full of green apples sitting pretty on the trees.
Here are my new found friends,
Trekking back, I saw a group of kids waiting for a school session to start. Kids! Kids! Resistance is futile now. Come on kids, gather around,
and smile into the camera.
Too big a school bag for him? Nah!!
The class began with a prayer session,
with some chanting of the sutra.
Some were totally engrossed,
while some were distracted
and others felt sleepy.
Finally, I ended up at MANU temple. The little girl gave me a stare while I was loitering around the temple. Nothing great about this temple anyway.
I made my way back to the guest house for a short afternoon rest before heading out to New Manali again. Along the way, I ended up at a provision shop for some coffee shop chat with a few locals. I paid a visit to Antrek Travel around 1700 hours to settle the outstanding payment for the travel trip and also to make arrangement for our Keylong stay at Snow Land Hotel.
I had the opportunity to break fast with the local Muslim brothers from the Kashmir Gift Collection at New Manali together with a short prayer session.
I ended the night out with dinner, paper masala dhosai at Satyam restaurant. This is possibly the best dhosai I had ever eaten.
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