India o13- o17

Kyrgyztan - India mar-jun.o17

Route: Kyrgyztan - Delhi - Rishikesh - Kausani - Manali (old Manali) - Parvaty valley (Jari, Kasol, Kalga) - Chandighar - Srinagar (Kashmir) - Jammu - Delhi

Kyrgyztan story - Nature obs - facts n figures

Travelling India okt.013 - june.014

Route de journe: Delhi - Mac Leod Ganj - Parvati valley - Rishikesh -
Kumaon - Kausani - Kosi river - Almora - Delhi - Goa -
Mumbai - Aurangabad - Ellora - Kolhapur - Vengurla - Goa -
Mumbai - Goa -

Nepal - India from june 2o14

Route: Kathmandu - Pokhara - Naudanda - Pokhara - Kathmandu - Varanasi - India

Nepal infos
(shedules for east Russia, L.Baikal- or Amur river, but got Maroc )

Under construction - Mc Leod Ganj ..... only parts (Unfertig) ... unfinished.

more to come ... most special places and regions ..... The home to the gods, there magnificant Kosi river, who made me crazy of moods, imressions, nat. observations, embeded local fishermen and river basin swimmers. Further holy and powerfull massage spending river Ganga at Rishikesh, just too much to swimm, refresh, play with currents and enjoy the heat after, on rocks or sand dunes.

: Morning couple

Rishikesh It s just too much of natures power coming down the mountains, nearly everyday i was roaming river banks, beaches n cliffs along of the holy river and took a swim here n there, powers unmeasurablke and cant put to words ...

Ganga dippings and if you can read river currents as a raft-guide like me you can dare to swim n dance in currents like a River Otter or King Salmon. Some go there for Yoga, some for Ganga pooja, some 4 Beatles nostalgia, I go there for enoying river currents n full massage by it, also nice people to be met, verandas, shopes, Sadhus and river beaches, the gate to the high Himalayan peaks, Kumaon and Panch Kedars, the five sources of the river Ganga.
Ganga i miss you, my tribute, you are a power i never want to miss in my life !

: Mt. Trishul from Kausani

Left for Kumaon, a special and quite unknown and remote region in the corner between Nepal, Tibet and India, also called "The home of the gods" what gets quite close to reality.
Stopped on way from Rishikesh to Kausani via Karanprayag by gov.bus at Gwaldam for 1 night, a small village, hill station and mil. camp at about 1800m alt. It was cloudy n very fresh all day there after hot n dry Rishikesh (400m alt) during late autumn in the hills (nov).
So next day left for the allready once, 14 years ago, visitied by Mountain bike hillstation Kausani, a secret and magnificant, only by well informed volks known, quite touristic and with some at main season open and well equipped hotels, i prefer open terrace family run guest houses and my guest house owner across the street over the hotel with 3 rooms did best service over weeks with little morning chat, even with cookies and breakfast to bed, embeded backside within morning monkey roaming terraces. Goodies and breakfast by his shop with TV below attached and the new coffee mashine, but inside the more complex chai kitchen.

: With Kosi river going nuts

Staied there for 1 months overwhelmed day by day of the fantastic view on a mountain range of about 200km of 6- and 7000ders, just too much for open eye meditation. Backside steep and botanicalley very interesting hills for roaming during sunsets and afternoons. Some winding stairs and shortcuts below the nice and unfaked village with typical open mountain kitchens for dailong Samosas and Chai, the Sewer across the stairway (part of this gallery) and the marcet with stores, fruit and veg. sellers a centro with Jeeptaxi and busstand, the street leading to Kosi river with nice restaurants, not fancy ones, can recommend Yogi reste.

Hiked nearly everyday up the hills for sunsets, special light at that altitude and time of the year dry and stable (okt-nov), during spring fast n extreme changes (april)
During afternoons hill research for Botanic mixes specialamentshi, Rhododendron, Deodar (Himal. Cedars) and Larch n more growing togather, some meters further Eukalyptus, Kastanie (Maronen - Edelkastanien can be roasted and eaten i like very much, also good for french crepe creme de maron ... hhhmmm-) and specl himal. Kumaon i miss you, ... The mountains, the skies ohhh i want to sing a song ....

: Daily Soundmaster

Watched birds like Sparrow Hawks (and related bigger ones), vultures, one time Tawny eagle (lazy and low flyer), Common Thrush, even coming into room what is not untypical but also Babbler coming into, Woodpeckers, Bulbuls funny morning couples doing morning laundry and welcome togather like the daily roaming monkeys for breakfast check around rooms. Further Pigeons,
Also Mahatma Gandhi spent some times and meditated here in the years of getting free from royal brit. Kolonialistas.

Connectivity: Kausani can be reached from Delhi by bus via Nainital (changig buses at villages), some may go direct to Kausani as buses leave from K. to Delhi early mornings, by Travel agency buses direct or from Rishikesh via Karanprayag and Gwaldam en route, by Share or Jeeptaxi(costly) on way from Rishikesh.
Other places more well known around are Almora (alt 1600m, 2hrs by bus from Kausani, district capital), Kasar Devi (10min from Almora), Nainital (1hrs from Almora, alt 1900m), Baijnath (half hour from Kausani), Corbett nat.park (120km 4-5hrs from Almora), Kosi river along route between Almora and Kausani. check Kumaon map

Goa Wild hot and shaky as always ... parties, beach and girls, houses with evranda anbd balkonie for private happenings. Hills for relaxing during Siesta and sunset for hillrocks. Good reste with flexible , changeable TV progs via manual handed over (! BBC - DD-news) in often great settings, interiör de restes, good food. Roamed northern territories to Vengurla (Maharshtra) on scooter for friends and WBSeaeagle to be watched dancing in sky (another skymaster)

Goa you are wild, wild as me,
wild dancers n lovers, in the seas, in the skies, in the nights
i never want to miss your smooth hills during sunset from a cliff
during night dancing wild under palm trees
under the stars and heavens
Goa i miss you
i kiss your fresh misty mornings
after darkness in which the peacocks welcomed me
after rainy days while eagle owls screaming

India by locations and mixed places

National parks of India

Eravikulam
Special for seeing Nilgiri Thar, which has its related specie in the Himalyas (Himal Thar) but there it has a lionlike neckhair there. It lives up in the old vulcanic Nilgiri and Whestghat mountains at the borderlines of djungles to the Sholas pc (high altitude grasscapped hills spread with trees). It can be reached from Munnar (12km) by bus, rikshaw (45min), bikes n the more. Bustrips into the park can be booked at the gate, often long rows umbrella proofed, or tourist office in Munnar (dec015)

Peryar - Kumily

One of Indias biggest national parks, sat along the Whestghats at about 1200m alt sourrounded by halfopen rocky peaks with djungle and a big lake flooded.
Tours of variouse kind can be booked in Kumily the main village close to the park, also cycles can be rent there cause streets are often busy. Tickets get sold at park gate, from the village by cycle it takes about 15min, by car depending on traffic rush. From Kumily a street leads 4 km inside the park to an half island, where there are info points, a restaurant, the ticket house for boat trips near the boats, park ranger huts, infos on trees on way etc etc. Dont take anything but sweet memories, passed by cycle. Peryar is good for seing Tigers, Deer, Elephants if lucky on a trip, swamps, all kind of biotops and djungle trees, hills and sourrounding rocky mountain ridges. Kumily has nice guest houses, bus stand with satdish and timetable, all kind of little and big shopoptions and even a modern street going through the village which looks a bid strange at night.
Peryar can be reached from Allepy or Khottayam at the coast side by bus or jeep (6.hrs) or from Madurai at the Tamil Nadu side (dec.015)

Thekkady (Bird sanct.) Nice stretch of land, partly spread with streams, canals and swamps, some rocky hills and djungle. Habitat to the Changeable Hawk Eagle, Herons, Frogmouth, Blue Beeater, Mallards etc
It can be reached from Kerala southern coastal cities by bus or cars within 3-4hrs.
(dec.015)

Rajaj
is special, its boundaries are not yet clear defined on many maps, but it is habitat to Tigers, Elephants roaming, the Grey more common and Great Ind. Hornbill and special it s getting a megalopolis Djungle adjoining the outskirts of Shivaliks, Landsdown, Panch Kedars, Pauri, Nandas and peak Trishul, so to say the souhern hills bordering the lowlands. Tours can be booked in Rishikesh, untried.

Maroc find here now (2o14, 2o17)

India 014/ 015

Route de journe: Delhi - Rishikesh - Kausani - Almora - Bareilly - Nagpur - Bhopal - Ellora - Hampi - Goa - Mumbai - Rishikesh - Dharamsala - Dharamkot - Delhi

India - Mid East - Italy 2015- 016

Route de journe: Delhi - Rishikesh - Kausani - Almora - Pushkar - Agra - Mumbay (mumbuy) - Mysore - Thekkady - Munnar - Nilgiris - Peryar/ Kumili - Trivandrum - Varkala - Cochin - Gokarna (Om beach) - Goa (northern territories, Chapora, Morjim, Vagator, Anjuna) - Delhi - Mc Leod Ganj - Dharamkot (Dhauladar range) - Delhi - Mid East: Abu Dhabi - Istanbul - EU: Bulgaria - Grece - Italy,
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India by locations, Dir_3, renovated may.o18

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