India&south-east-Asia

North india travel begins.
two friends , Beem and me start on two bikes (My bike) up to missouri. It's a mountain town with very beautiful lanscapes around, high mountains and deep jungle, rivers and waterfalls. We couldn't go farer than missourie because of landslides and waterfals all along and over the road, so we changed plans and started direction west-north. Going ot of the missouri mountains, we found two camels walking beside the road with no owner, we stopped to say hello to them and I fed one of them that was much bigger than me....
Beside camels you also find monkeys everywhere, sitting on the road, on house roofs or motorbikes .
The next day we arrived in Chandigarh, where we went to see Rock Garden, which is a really beautiful place , with mini teple worlds , waterfalls , ruins , 1.4m doors... and another camel to rode on but I decided to ride on camel some other day.
The next morning we continued our way to Amritsar, and on the way we where surrounded by marihuana plants , and we stopped a while to rest and to make some chokolate for Beem .
We arrived in Amritzar when it was already dark and got free sleeping and food for three days at the temple. Golden temple is wonderfull , totaly cowered with gold , and shining day and night .
The second day of our estance in Amritzar we went to see the pakistan-india border opening and closure, everything very formal, high steps, cold handshakes between the militars, and the banging of the border gate after finishing the show.... Its really like a theater.
We continued our way to Jammu , where we stayed other two nights in a temple and where we met some very good and open minded people and other not so nice, who wanted to take money from us and to take us to some faraway mountains thinking that I'm rich...
We also went to see a "enormous Temple" that is famous all over India. It was a two hours ride on the bike and then 12.6 Km walking up the mountains , it took us 5 hours walking and we had to pass 5 check and control points. when we finally got there, they didn't even allow us to take the camera inside, and after wating half an hour we could go inside. It was a 3x2 meter cave with 3 stones inside!!!!!!! nothing more!!!!!!!!! we saw these stones (supposed to be 3 godess) for 20 seconds and had to go outside again. Then another 4 hours way back and another 2 hours bike riding until we could sleep.... this experience I need ONLY ONCE IN LIFE!!!!!
The next day we went to Dharamshala , a very beautiful place also in the mountains, it looks a litle bit like Swizerland with jungle, and it's the first place in India where I could imagine to stay longer or to live for some years...


Written on 03.09.2010