Manali

About Jewelry the dog: He immediately cleaved to Delilah upon entering a beautiful park behind our hotel. He then proceeded to protect us as we walked through the park, for instance, scaring away the monkeys. THough I so wanted a photo with Deli and monkeys, her relationship of convenience with this dog was gratifying.

About the leash. At one point in our preparations for our trip I got concerned about loosing Delilah in REALLY REALLY big and dense crowds in Delhi. My cousin suggested a leash. Upon mentioning it to Delilah, she got very excited about it, and though through many conversations my fears were allayed, she remained interested in the leash.

It came in handy in Manali because the ROADS WERE SO NARROW. NO SIDEWALKS. COWS, DOGS, CARS, MOTORCYCLES, and, as I mentioned before, VELOCIRAPTORS ZOOMING ABOUT. With the leash I could reel her in away from the traffic.

Park behind our hotel.

Protest mentioned before in the town square of Manali.

Our first introduction the Buddhist culture on the trip. A temple right in Manali. Had the first of many very large prayer wheels we would see. This one enclosed in a room not much bigger than the 8' high prayer wheen. Always spin clockwise.

Detail.

Dragon detail

Prayer flags above Manali

Monkey

I was extremely excited to see a snake charmer, though this one was one of the most rascally of the hawkers, asking for exorbitant amounts of American money for each of their 6 people though as the photo shows, they started our with 3. People in India don't seem to have change, so it seemed difficult for 2 people to split a tip with one bill. For most of our trip we had to actively pay attention and seek small change.

I didn't get my curiosity about cobras satisfied. Hawker # 1 was too busy trying to put a python on me and asking for money, how could he have known that I had a python as a pet for many years, and it wasn't really a novelty to me at all.

Blank books you will soon be seeing for sale in Miles's store.

One of many.