who told me that I can see the Mountain Himalayas here?! Bullshit~
First day in Manali
I don’t understand why many people love this place, at least not yet understand.(Now I understand.....6 days later haha) You can see the snow mountains here, but still it is far away (takes a 4-day-trekking to reach them); Yes it’s peaceful, relaxing and really chill out, but quite similar as LIJIANG in YUNNAN, while in Lijiang the snow mountain are closer and the complex more organized. At night, Manali is a bit like the terrace area in Guilin , very dark; in this town a torch is really very useful.
Ben stays in another guest house, Brad did some running and is all day drawing his fish tans (very interesting…). ;Meet some new people but I was too tired to talk to much…EJ went to some Korean Holiday Party; this reminds me that tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Day, a traditional festival for Chinese families to get together. However I will be not at home… awww I’m a little homesick now. EJ has Koreans friends to hang out, while I don’t have anyone I can talk to using Chinese~~ But…. I guess I don’t care too much… (even if I do, there’s nothing to do about it)
Every one of us is up to something separately; honestly I’m not used to this situationJ yet still I enjoy it, and part of me want it to happen. Being traveling for almost 4 months without a single day alone and always hang out with friends meet on the way, my brain kind of become empty while I want to think some serious staff. Some peaceful and no-one-cares-about-me days will definitely help.
Walking around this place (old Manali) takes no more than 2 hours (if you don’t go to those mountains). My favorite spot is those big stones in the River, sitting on which you can enjoy locals fishing there and the sounds of water hitting stones, and it really helps when you want to be alone and do some deep thinking (or just daydreaming lol). Owners of the handicraft /souvenir stores and those hostels stores are so friendly. From them I know that most Asian travelers here are either Japanese or Korean, few Chinese here.
Very very tired!!! Not enough sleep in the bus, yet couldn’t sleep in the hostel in the day time…
Tomorrow we will do trekking around the nearest mountain here. It’s becoming colder and colder when it gets darker……..
---------------------------NIGHT TIME COMES--------------------------
I talked to this Indian Guy named Addle (sounds like) earlier afternoon, and he invited us to his home party at 9 pm, it was pretty nice, we visit another Indian Family yeah yeah! (technically speaking not, because only he and his brother; but also some of his other friends, there’s even a British girl there J). The only thing that made me feel tired is that this Addle keep talking about sharing Indian/Chinese experience, sex staff and boyfriend/girlfriend staff to me for like forever…because of this, even when he was not talking these later, the whole life-is-different conversation made me feel very tired… I mean, Hey this is not the good way! Maybe you have done this to other Chinese/Taiwan girls before with great success; I’m just not those “do Kisses in 30 min and have sex with you in 2 hrs” girls, ok? (And according to your story, I feel so sorry about those 4 or 5 Chinese girls you made up b4…)
According to Addle, Indian girls still stick to the virgin-before-marriage tradition these days, that’s why he started to try girls from other Countries, especially Chinese and Taiwan girls (though there are so few Chinese girls coming here, only around 5 per year!). His friend Tiger, another Indian boy, also talked about some 21-year-old Chinese girl being so crazy that she asked him “I’m beautiful or she is beautiful?” every time when she saw another girl (even in the movie); this girl was with him for the first 2 days and start telling him that “I like white boy I hate Indian boy!”. At the end Tiger started to conclude that this Chinese girl has some psychological problem…
Yeah the home party and the rest of the conversation were really nice, but I feel terrible of the above part. I hope it is not the only impression for other people about Chinese girls.
When we went back to our guesthouse, it was after 12 pm, the whole town was so quiet, tons of dogs wondering around (After Thailand I always have that feeling that they will attack me and bite me…), stars and moon in the bright sky. The Swissland guy we talked to earlier the day was sitting in front of our room chatting to 3 of his new friends; they were pretty drunk and were trying some fresh marijuana leaves! It was so crazy because in Manali, you just walk around and you would find marijuana leaves on the ground….