Kashmir used to be one of the major national as well as international travel destinations during those days before the unrest started there around the year 1986. It show-cased a lot many tourist attractions in its travel packages that it offered. The center of all the tourist activity was based at Srinagar that made the [...]
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Kashmir: A Heaven on Earth – The Real Shangri La (Then)
Kashmir was a real much-sought-after Shangri la, easily passing to be the heaven on earth, I felt!
As I looked at the valley while entering into it up from the mountains around, I was simply left awe-stricken! I could never have imagined there could ever be such a beautiful place on earth, had I not been [...]
Campsites as A Whole Camping World
Our campsites were a whole camping world for us in which we were two good neighbors to each other.
And we were the neighbors who were in love with each other too.
It was true for wherever we pitched our tents during the period Eva and I traveled together in the mysterious valley of Lahaul and Spiti.
We [...]
Eva’s Mouthwatering Camping Recipes on Her Camping Stove
Our camping recipes were just the opposite of each other. Eva had a proper camping stove that I cared the least for. For me freedom of time at my disposal was more important than busying myself in cooking my meals.
So I had developed a system of sprouting grains and pulses that kept doing its [...]
Meeting People, Making Friends, Falling in Love
Eva loved meeting people and making friends wherever she went. Falling in love was as natural to her as breathing.
And she really fell into it, never faked it for some other ulterior motifs of hers. She was to play the game of life as honest as it was natural to her undistorted instinctual drives!
“Let’s go [...]
Eva’s Canon Camera Shoot to Submit Photos and Make Photo Cards
Eva took out her canon camera capturing scenes to submit photos to magazines and make photo cards to sell.
She would occasionally make me stand in the foreground taking care that my presence never went obtrusive over the theme of the scene and just added a very subtle and covert human dimension to it.
It couldn’t be [...]
Eva’s World Travel: Her World Map and Her Shangri-La World Culture
“I doubt everything that is part of world culture, so I took a world map and set out on a world travel hoping to find a Shangri-La somewhere, where people really live their life and not run over it. You know I have so many of those maps with me in my rucksack and I [...]
Sunblock for Celebrity Skin without Freckles
Eva had painted her face white with a sunblock to save her celebrity skin from getting freckles on it as we started on our way to Lahaul Spiti on foot.
Sunblock
She had no skin rashes, no uneven patches of color on her face, nor even those white spots on skin that I always had noticed [...]
Eva’s Mantra: Submit Photos to Magazines and Publish Photo Cards to Sell
“I’ll click snaps to submit photos on Lahaul and Spiti to magazines and to publish some photo cards to sell. Will you come along?” – Eva asked me the next day.
Lahaul Spiti Photograph
“How many days?” – I asked.
“Say 15 to 20.” – she was hopefully looking toward me.
“Done!” – I gave my consent.
“Hurray!” – she [...]
