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North India Trekking Trip 北印度行山之旅 (23 Aug - 11 Sep 2002)
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Road scene in Manali. At the background is the black-on-yellow sign of BRO. Foreground is an army truck.
Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is the government agency mandated to build and maintain roads, airfields in the border area, mainly to facilitate military movements such as the army truck here. More information about BRO here.
In and around Manali, we saw lots of BRO black-on-yellow anti-drink-driving signs. They must have gotten the slogans in a competition or something, almost each sign has different slogan and some of them are out right silly. In fact I think some slogans are too long to read and distractive to drivers.
(23 Aug 2002, 28mm, F2.8 A-mode)
chin:
Street scene in Manali.
(23 Aug 2002, 28mm, 1/2 Second S-mode)
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Acharya directing packing before the trekking.
(24 Aug 2002, 70mm, F2.8 A-mode)
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Harsh (pronounced as hut-sh) is one of two instructors trekking with us.
To qualify to be an instructors, the candidate needs to take courses and score A in each of Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Mountaineering. Then move on to take Method of Instruction course to qualify as an instructor. These courses were offered at the mountaineering institute in Manali.
The institute was setup in 196x to train professional instructors and guides. How visionary the founders were, mountaineering and related sports are now a major contributor to the local economy.
There are about 100 active qualified instructors in the Manali area, we were told. They earn US$10-$20 per day on trek.
(24 Aug 2002, 70mm, F2.8 A-mode)
chin:
Apple is a major produce in the Manali area. Packing tents like this can be seen everywhere along the roads.
This morning we are starting the trekking, and was packing our stuff at the roadside next to this tent. Acharya's gear sitting on the right.
(24 Aug 2002, 28mm, F2.8 A-mode)
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