shnaim sikim im kinaur

long time no read!
let me fill you in on my recent adventures:
i came back to himachal from ladakh, (not before attending the festival in leh and watching a polo match) stayed a few days resting in vashist. this is a vilage where you can realax reading under a tree, see a movie in a turist restaurant (i saw samsara again- a great flic if you want to get to know budhizm and see where i was in ladakh)spend the evening in hot springs and the night in an uphill nature party. i also did the university beeding there, which was a real unrelevant headache. after a month of happy traveling i parted with oren over a bottle of shivas and went my own way looking for adventures and gold. i found no gold, but went to the remote kinaur vally. this place has been cut off from the rest of the world for a while and even now i had to trek to some of the villages, so turist were very few. on the first night i go there i found no place to sleep, so a nice kinauri guy called anup took me to his home village. i got up the next morning with a hang over from his kinauri wine to discover 6000 meters of mount keener kailash in front of me. this place was a dream come true i didnt even know i had- its hard to express the effect of the solitude, amzing scenery and even the sound of the wind through the trees while a group of voltures fly by.if you would have met me there you would have not recognized me as i was walking with a smile on my face. the mountain is supposed to be the place where lord siva goes to do his hashis inspired meditation, and appropriatly the whole area is swarming with marijoana plants growing free. you can just pick the flowers like daiseys, which the japanese couple i met there promtly did every day. i traveled with Kazuo san and Emi san for about 4 days, speaking only japanese since they know no english (this put me in a funny frame of mind if you can imagine). they were really sweet and i might visit them some day soon in Hokkaido. i also met a middle aged swiss budhist taxi driver, a wierd french environmentalist, and a "new aged" american writer working on his humorous spiritual book. i left sangla valley today and tomorow i head for rishikesh. as for photos, they are on film, so youll have to wait.

book corner: read some good books i fill like recommending:
the tin drum (gunter grass): the strangest book i ever read, of course i liked it. also solves the riddle of the onion cutting in the PATAT an nachalat binyamin.
sidhartha (herman hesse): a great twist on the story of buddha.
my traveles with my aunt (grahm green): surprisingly funny and smart, thanks adva!!:)
1984 (you know who): the movie does not do justice. read it. (you dont really have to)