Trip to Little Lhasa - Part II

Once we reached Mcleodganj we were very much astonished, since one could count out the Indians residing there. It was more of exile Tibetians and close followers of His Holiness. For more than ½ hr we tried getting some accommodation, but were not successful. We had to walk around 2kms from the main market to get an accommodation. By 1Pm we got settled in the hotel and I fell like a log and had a good sleep for around 1 ½ hr. By the time I woke up the others were ready and it took me another 30mins to get ready and straight away headed for lunch.

After lunch we visited the Monastery, which includes Karmachakra Temple, Buddha statue and residence of His Holiness. Then we headed to the Tibetian Museum, which depicted the life of Tibetians under the Chinese invasion. We came to know that His Holiness was at his residence and tried to meet him, but our request was politely turned down. Then we headed to Dal Lake, which is 5km from the main market, which was not much convincing, so we further drove another 3km for a place called Nandoo. This is a viewpoint of the neighboring mountains, which looked amazing under the sunset.

After spending some time we went back to our hotel rooms to take some rest. As per our plan we decided to trek 13km stretch towards Trinud-Illaqa the next day morning. Trinud is 9km walk and can have a close view of the snow-covered mountaintop and Illaqa is place where we can see glaciers. With the anticipation of viewing this spots we went to sleep.

More to come about our Sunday plan...