Delhi to Donjli
By Charlie. Filed in Travel |
Recently I was fortunate to be taken on a trip to India. The plan was to spend most of our time in a remote village in the lower Himillian Mountains near Daramasla India where the Tibetan government in exile is. In this village where I was headed to, Dolanji, is where the Tibetan refugees of the Bon tradition are settling in India. The trip there would be a test of patients and endurance as all travel in India is. We flew into Delhi were we had a room book for several day at Delhi best hotels to acclimate to the weather and the time change. It is hot, humid, noisy and polluted here. Choking our way through the crowded street in a cab it looked like we would be running into everything. Horns blared and I don;t know if anyone knew who and one else was honking at. This is all taken in stride by the residents here. After the few days of resting up we were to be heading to the enormous train station in Delhi. The English built this train system linking an enormous and rugged county together by endless ribbons of rail road track. We paid to go first class, which was fairly uncomfortable, however not unbearable as the coach passage would be. Nearly a day of riding on a swaying train gaining altitude as we approached Darmasala. Here we stayed at a guest house for a few night getting acclimated to the altitude and rest from the strain of the train ride. Then one morning we got transportation on a bus over long and narrow mountain roads up steep grades and between tight passages to the village of Dolanji where the Bon refugees are. Here we will spend a few day among the orphaned children and see the work the childrens foundation has been able to accomplish over the past few years.
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