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Jennifer blows up the inflatable couch to make the Naddi Village vacation rental tolerable. It was a nice thought. Unfortunately, even inflatable furnishings couldn't make that place habitable.Related Posts:Worst Vacation Rental Experience Ever: Moldy Mattresses in the Himalayan Mountains -- By Jennifer Shipp ...
In this video, our family takes a few minutes to consider the triple room at the Asian Health Resorts at Spa in Naddi Village, near Mcleodganj, India. John talks about getting the various scams in India that we'd encountered on our trip, particularly in the northern part of the country. The Asian Health Resorts and Spa was reasonably clean (not perfect, but cleaner than most hotels in the area), with good ...
What does this sign mean? As we hiked along the road from our vacation rental to a (hopefully) cleaner hotel, we saw this road sign and speculated as to its purpose. ...
We went on a little hike near Naddi Village. It lead to some prayer flags and a friendly dog who accompanied us back to the village. This video doesn't show the prayer flags though, or the dog, but the part of the hike that was kind of dangerous. ...
Our first night in Naddi Village was a nightmare, but we persevered to find a new hotel, acceptably clean and accommodating hotel near Mcleodganj. In this video, Lydian and I talk about the crappy things that happen when we're traveling. At this point in the journey, we still hadn't found a new place to stay and weren't sure whether there would even be a place with electricity and clean pillows.Related ...
In this video, Lydi talks about the day over her chickpea dollups. We'd gotten up early for a flight that had been delayed several times and then rode up a hill in a taxi...an unforgettable ride with a car-tuk tuk accident that happened partway through the journey, and then we arrived at a vacation rental that was two separate rooms instead of one. We were prepared to deal with it until the electricity went ...
Even the His Holiness couldn't have made this vacation rental in Naddi Village be okay. This video chronicles our nightmare from our arrival in Naddi Village, through the painful process of making dinner with almost nothing but coffee mugs and our middle-of-the-night whispering in the dark (because there was no electricity, to the epic hike we made through the mountains the next morning to find a new place ...
Finding food is always a priority for us when we're traveling. We like to stay in and cook all our own food (with rare exceptions) because we don't get food poisoning or traveler's diarrhea that way. This video shows a quick overview of the Rahan General Store that sits right across from Dal Lake, near the tuk tuks that head downhill to Mcleodganj. Across the street from the general store is a fruit and ...
We've ridden in a lot of taxis all over the world, and Indian taxi rides are always entertaining to the max, but the ride from Dharamshala to Mcleodganj and then onward to our vacation rental in Naddi Village was by far the most intense road trip we'd ever taken. Along the way there were monkeys, cows, and goats in the road. A recent landslide led to a car-tuk tuk accident right ahead of us. Lots of people ...
Technologically speaking, this trip to India has been a disaster. Our Internet has been non-existent for more than two weeks now and about 7 days ago, my computer starting “acting up”. First, it refused to turn on. John, the computer whisperer, starting working with it, gently at first, pushing buttons and talking to it softly in the dim light of his own computer monitor, studying a forum filled with advice ...
We visited northern India two years ago in 2014, when the Ebola epidemic was in full-swing and terrorist threats were plastered all across the Delhi news. We’d spent 30 days in Nepal when we made our way back through Varanasi and Delhi over the course of about 9 days. It was one of the most difficult trips we’d ever done in part because we’d gotten rabies shots in Nepal, which left us tired and weak, and ...
In 2002, we were so poor, there was a time when we couldn’t afford to buy eggs and John had to bum change off a guy who was almost as poor as we were to buy gas to get home from John’s newspaper route (he had 2 of them at the time). That was in the first few months post-9/11. Our business had gone belly-up. Work prospects had dried up. I was pregnant at the time. And we’d just bought our first house along ...