After returning to Vashisht in Manali we again stayed at the Dharma Hotel over looking the valley and snow capped peaks, we booked our next night bus journey back to Dharamsala. The bus left at 10pm and we had to endure another 8 hours on a rickety bus. This time we booked a sleeper bus and sort of slept as we got chiucked about as the bus steamed around the corners. Its best not to watch where the driver is going as they have a habbit of taking over on blind cor...

We had an 8 hour so called luxury bus to Dharamsala and arrived there at 5.30 am. We had to wake the taxi driver up to Mc Leod Ganj where the Dalai Lama lives. We ended up at the Pink House hotel ran by a couple of brothers from Kashmir. Javid who was the boss was running a good business and here we stayed for 12 days. The time whipped passed it is almost as long as we spent in the Andaman Islands. The hotel had a fab resturant on the roof top and with mountain v...

We Landed in Bangalore, a mad modern metrapolis with every modern convinience from McDonalds to huge shopping malls. We then trained out to Chennai on an 8 hour journey to another hot bustling, dusty, dirty, urine smelling coastal city. From here we flew to Andaman Islands on a 5 hour flight and landed in Port Blair. Port Blair is the capital of the Anadamans and it is another dirty grotty place. From here we took a 6 hour ferry ride to Havelock Island and then h...