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| The Ridge. This is the hub of tourist activity in Shimla, you can take a horse ride along the twenty metre stretch and back. Another novel way to terrify children. Na wierzcholku gory w Shimla, glowny deptak zapelniony indinskimi turystami, mozna pojezdzic na super wychudzonym koniku, kolejna okazja by zobaczyc przerazone dzieci. |
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| We're going to start charging for photos. Punjabis in particular love to have their photo taken with us; must be Bartosz's 'beautiful beard'. Chyba zaczniemy pobierac oplaty za zdjecia z nami, co chwila ktos chcial byc naszym nowym przyjacielem i zatrzymac pamiatke.... Zoe uwaza, ze to przez moja "piekna brode". |
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| Shimla is built over about five different levels on the side of a hill. Our first experience of the city was climbing up through all of them. Lots of sets of crazy steep stairs; and check out the monkeys on the electrical wires. Shimla sklada sie z pieciu poziomow na zboczu gory. Po przyjezdzie pierwsze co, to musielismy wdrapac sie na sama gore, pokonujac niezliczona ilosc stromych schodow (wjazd samochodem zabroniony). Do okola malpy przeskakiwaly z budynku na budynek lub wisialy na kablach... |
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| We loved how colourful everything was here- all bubbles and balloons. Bylo przekolorowo.... |
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| It's fun to stay at the... Zatrzymalismy sie w ..... |
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| Ronnie Rocket. |
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| Vs. John Virgo. |
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| Tu tez powyzej 2000m npm, ciagle glowy w chmurach. |
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| 'The Greatest Magic Show in the World'. It was amazing in so many ways. Definitely one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The soundtrack included 'Jingle Bells' and the light show was almost as good as the Travelling Billberets'. "Najwybitniejszy Pokaz Magii na Swiecie" taki byl tytul.... Ja bym powiedzial najzabawniejszy. Muzyka z popularnych piosenek wigilyjnych, swiatla jak z wiejskiego disco, ubaw po pachy.... Przedstawienie trwa okolo dwie godziny, my mielismy dosc po 20-30min. |
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| Najwiekszy mag.... |
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| How does he do it? Jak on to robi? |
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| This is the postcard view of Shimla; the main church on The Ridge. Pocztowka z widokiem Shimla, kosciol na szczycie.... |
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| Monkeys, monkeys everywhere. If you leave the window open in your room you can see all the monkeys nearby suddenly swinging and climbing down to try and get in. Needless to say we set up our own monkey protection unit; namely Bartosz and a flamethrower. They can be pretty vicious. Malpy byly wszedzie. Jesli oworzysz okno, malpy w mgnieniu oka ruszaja na przelaj, i mozesz liczyc na wizyte. My mielismy dobrego odstraszacza, czyli miotacz ognia z dezodorantu (zadne zwierze nie ucierpialo). |
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| Smashed it. Ta tablica podawala w jakim czasie powinno sie wejsc na gore do swiatymi malp. My oczywiscie zrobilismy miazge z tych czasow... |
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| Bartosz and his monkey stick. It only costs 10 rupees to rent, which we thought wasn't bad, until we realised the walk to the temple was through a forest. Po drodze mozna bylo zaopatrzyc sie w kija, tylko 10rupii za wynajem, myslelismy, ze to spoko cena, lecz pozniej weszlismy do lasu..... |
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| Kolejna grupowa fotka z turystami.... |
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| Hanuman- the Indian monkey God. Hanuman - indyjski malpi bog... |
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| Kij byl potrzebny by trzymac malpich zlodzieji na odleglosc, niektore samce byly troche agresywne.... |
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| Monkey baby! |
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| Entrance to the Hanuman Temple. |
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| 'Clouds so swift, rain won't lift.' After two days and nights of thunderstorms we decided it was time to leave the mountains. Po dwuch burzowych dniach i nocach zadecydowalismy by opuscic gory.... |
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| The toy train to Kalka. Kolejka do Kalka. |
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| This is the train station for Sanwara, which is the village where my Great Great Grandma went to school. It's as close as we could get, but hopefully one day we'll be back. Stacja we wiosce Sanwara, to tu Zoe praprababcia chodzila do szkoly. Przy nastepnej okazji pojdziemy zwiedzic szkole.... |
So we ended up leaving the mountains in a bit of a hurry. I don't know exactly how much news you guys back home are getting about the landslides and storms in the mountains here, but it's pretty bad. They've dubbed it the Himalayan Tsunami. The local governments of Himachal pradesh and Uttarakhand say there have been 10,000 deaths so far, but the central Indian government are refusing to accept this figure and are issuing reports of around 2,000. 2,100 villages have been destroyed and thousands of people (mainly locals) are still stranded. We've met a few people with horror stories who've been flown out by helicopter. Sounds pretty hardcore; 300 people fighting to get on a 24-seater helicopter which comes once a day. We read in the newspapers today that there are fears that the stranded and starving horses and donkeys will soon turn on humans...not sure about that one. Anyway information is mixed and unreliable so we decided to come back to the plains for a bit.
We are back in Delhi now and enjoying having time to explore the city properly. Temperature here is about 40 during the day and 30 at night. I know I shouldn't complain but sometimes I really want to. We've both got the standard Delhi belly and unfortunately I'm allergic to the antibiotics that cure it- had the mother of all rashes for a while. All is good now though and we are well again and had a big breakfast today to celebrate. Biggest news though is that we have booked a flight to Kuala Lumpur and fly on the 7th of July, so now we are dreaming of tropical islands and snorkeling (can you get a helmet for that?). Looking forward to all the new sights, sounds and colours that are sure to come with a new country and new skies. Lots and lots of love to you all back home. We miss and think of you always.
Zdecydowalismy opuscic pochmurne i deszczowe gory, zwlaszcza, ze sytuacja pogodowa sie pogarsza i wzrasta niebezpieczenstwo obsowania sie ziemi. Nie wiemy ile slyszeliscie o powodziach w Uttarakhand i Himachal. Jak donosza zrodla z zagrozonych terenow okolo 10000 luzdi zabitych, lecz urzedy panstwowe mowia, ze tylko2000. Ponad 2000 wiosek zostalo zniszczonych, i tysiace mieszkajacych tam ludzi zostalo uwiezionych (glownie lokalni mieszkancy). Poznalismy kilku ludzi ktorzy mieli zaszczyt przezyc horror, uwiezieni gdzies w gorach bez kontaktu ze swiatem, bez zywnosci, wody musieli walczyc z reszta ludnosci (okolo 300 osob) o miejsce w helikopterze, ktory przylatywal raz dziennie i mogl zabrac tylko 24. Wyczytalismy tez w gazecie, ze istnieje rowniez niebezpieczenstwo ze strony uwiezionych tam koni i oslow, ktore niedozywione i wydziczale atakuja ludzi (ale to chyba jakis dowcip).
W tej chwili jestesmy z powrotem w Delhi, moze teraz uda nam sie zwiedzic troche to miasto. Temperatura w dzien 40+ w nocy 30+, czyli cieplutko. Oby dwoje cierpimy z powodu jakiegos zatrucia pokarmowego, Zoe jest dodatkowo uczulona na antybiotyk ktory nam dano i ktory powinnien pomoc, i pokryla sie swedzaca wysypka. W tej chwili jest juz w pozadku i dzisiaj uczcilismy to wielkim sniadaniem...
Mamy juz bilety na samolot, ktory 7go zabieze nas do Kuala Lumpur, a skad udamy sie na tropikalne wyspy, juz teraz marzymy o nich... Juz nie mozemy sie doczekac, kiedy znajdziemy sie w nowym otoczeniu, pelnym czekajacych na nas przygod i doswiadczen...
Pozdrawiamy wszystkich z calych sil, do zobaczenia w krodce...
