Ka Pai Kiwis

After another lovely breakfast in the garden we said goodbye to our hosts. The Mary hotel in Manali have treated us very well, nothing was too much trouble. Leaving Manali. We are retracing our steps for a couple of days towards Chandigarh before we peel off towards the Nepal border.  We battled once again today the almost constant roadworks, potholes, traffic, dust, sheep and goats being driven along the road, cows in the most unlikely of places, sometimes just standing nonchalantly in the middle of the road whilst the traffic swerves around them.  There was also a large construction project going on with all the diggers and machinery to dodge as well. Never a dull moment. Shed getting moved in amongst the traffic and road construction. Huge tunnels getting dug our. Road will be amazing when completed.  We arrived at our infamous tunnel, last night I devised a safety strategy to get in behind a truck and just follow it through.  As luck would have it we caught one j...

A laid back day today. We had a sleep in followed by a lovely breakfast in the garden of our hotel and a Whatsapp  with all the family- lovely. We then did a bit of washing and planning. After all this frenetic activity we went for a lovely walk into the old Manali.  Then on to a waterfall, we didn’t quite make the waterfall because we lost our way but had a lovely sunbathe beside a fast flowing river and a paddle.  Actually we realised  that the track to the waterfall was up the steep bit to the right. After a short discussion we decided we had walked quite a long way already and to not pursue looking for the waterfall. We also felt that we deserved a cake and coffee on the way back.  Parts of the old town are really old and we visited another old wooden temple. This tree is a sacred tree.  Then back up the hill where we sat in the garden and planned the next few days and drank tea.