I came to realize how important a piece of camping gear my down sleeping bag was.
You would go sleepless the whole night if it weren’t there to cover you well!
One day as I was preparing to go inside my tent for my night sleep, Manjit – one of my two search spies – came to [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
Sleepless without My Down Sleeping Bag in My Camping Gear
Easy Money, Fast Money, Free Money with No Money Investment
He wanted easy money. He wanted fast money. He wanted free money.
He had no money left with him.
I am talking of one of the Europeans I met in Manali. This man had gone broke and didn’t have money even to fill his belly.
His friends suggested him to go beg it on roads.
“Will they give?” – [...]
They Knew How to Flirt
How to flirt is best known to the Kullu girls as compared to anyone else on earth anywhere!
Kullu is the name of the valley Manali is situated in and has a famous saying about it in a Hindi couplet: “jo jaaye Kullu, ho jaaye ullu”, meaning thereby that whosoever goes to Kullu ever, is bound [...]
One Dictatorship Two Dictators
It was a dark era of dictatorship in the history of independent India with not one but two dictators running the country for full two and a half years from 1975 to 1977. It was only courtesy their wrongly (for them!) judged election timings in early 1978 that they declared and very badly (good for [...]
Music Producers and Their Music Search
Music producers are out for their music search everywhere, every time.
It became clear to me as the celebrity musician Rajesh Roshan caught hold of the three of us the very same night.
Rajesh Roshan
My search spies were named Manjit and Prem.
Prem was a good flautist.
As we were coming back to the campsite after having a round [...]
Camping Stove: A Part of Camping Gear
Camping stove was not a part of my camping gear.
Helium Stove
A Compact Arrangement
A Functional, Sleek Arrangement
But I don’t expect everyone to be like me who could enjoy his sprouts as much as he enjoyed the best cuisine in the best restaurant of the world.
Time to Cook!
I was just there to play the game of life [...]
Free Campsites and My Search Spy Team
Free campsites are always much better than the paid ones.
But you need to be a real search spy in order to unearth them out of nowhere on earth!
A Beautiful Campsite
I was a stranger to Manali as I had landed there for the first time in my life.
And the town was a much sought after hamlet [...]
Camping Gear and Camping Equipment: Always Keep It Light
My camping gear along with all the camping equipment was not a very elaborate one:
Camping Tent
Down sleeping bag
Rucksack
First aid kit
Torch
Water bottle
Hammer
Knife
Ice axe
2 pairs of clothes
A leather Jacket
Hiking boots and a pair of slippers
Towel
Toiletries
A small mirror
A small vessel to boil/fry
Two small cotton bags in the rucksack pocket to sprout grains and lentils as my staple food
And [...]
Camping Tents: Better Than Any Luxury Hotel Rooms in The Best Luxury Hotels of The World
Camping tents are better than any luxury hotel rooms in the best luxury hotels of the world.
Manali Camp
My tent was a gem of a piece that came to it own in the sense of its full worth as I reached Manali and was left dazed looking at its beauty surrounded by snow covered peaks all [...]
Government Politics: A Dollar Diplomacy
Government politics is just a dollar diplomacy.
I am talking of the governments all over the world, dollar only representing the strongest of them all.
Once as I was sleeping inside my tent, my sleep got disturbed by some shouting voices outside the tent, saying – “Who is there inside the tent?”
I shouted back from inside only [...]
