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North India Trekking Trip 北印度行山之旅 (23 Aug - 11 Sep 2002)
chin:
My first trip to India. And what a trip it was. India is a land of contrast, land of colors, land of history and past glory. Also a land of "People Mountain People Sea" in Cantonese expression.
One month after returning to Hong Kong, my memory is still vivid. Entrusted by my group members to produce a DVD for the trip, I had the opportunities (and obligations) to review the videos and photos repeatedly and in detail. In the process I got to reflect more on what I saw and experienced.
The purpose of this web site is to share some of the photos and stories. To record what I saw in a roughly chronological order.
We started the trip from Hong Kong on 21 Aug 2002, started trekking 24 Aug to 2 Sep. Then 6 of us stayed until 10 Sep 2000 to visit Agra & Jaipur. Back to Hong Kong on 911
chin:
Arriving Dehli at about 11:30pm on 21 Aug 2002, we quickly got on the chartered bus for the 18-hour ride to Manali.
(22 Aug 2002, 28mm, F2.8 A-mode)
chin:
On the way to Manali, we stopped in a couple of roadside rest stops so the driver could rest, and we got to "relief". We saw quite many old cars like this in India.
(21 Aug 2002, 35mm, 1 second S-mode)
chin:
Urvij Acharya in Nalagarh Palace.
Acharya was our guide and host for the trekking, boss of the Ultimate Expeditions in Manali, father of two boys of 11 and 9 years old. Acharya has been in this business professionally for 10 years. His method to get us acclimatized worked well.
From him I learned that there are Aryan descendants, like himself, in India. Told us stories from Mahabharata which he thinks actually happened.
(22 Aug 2002, 85mm, F1.4 A-mode)
chin:
In the morning of 22 Aug, we had breakfast in the heritage hotel Nalagarh Palace. Besides being the first meal in India, the palace also gave us the first taste of the Indian past glory.
(22 Aug 2002, 28mm, F2.8 A-mode)
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