Ashtanga Yoga, Indian cooking (Udi), Buddhist Philosophy, some more Israeli influenced Yoga, Jewelery making (Sarit), good North Indian food, many many many Israelis, amazing snow-capped peaks, beautiful cedars, more Indian food, nice and clean hotel…
… so why should we go anywhere?
Our next stop was much lower in altitude and much higher in celsius degrees: Rishikesh, the holy town by the Ganges riverside, was visited by The Beatles in the sixties, and by us alongside many many Israelis now. Starting from this stop we have changed alot the way we travel: apart from much more westeren food, we also started taking Yoga classes, and apparently we joined the huge Israeli “wave” migrating from the south to the much cooler north.
Rishkesh is full of Ashrams, gigantic Hindu temples, reminding malls in appearance and content, and many pilgrims. We spent a few days wondering around, trying to settle for this more relaxed part of our trip, until we understood that the heat is stronger than us, and we ran for our lives back to the Himalayas…