http://www.babasushi.info/blog Sarit and Udi's Weblog הבלוג של שרית ואודי Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:34:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ahh, the holiday of trees - or ecological destruction…. Most of you who are reading this probably think I have fallen of the deep end, but Tu B’Shvat -the holiday of planting trees, has come to symbolize the destruction of natural ecosystems. I am sure you remember at Sunday school or for ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2007/02/04/tu-b-shvat-higiya-time-to-plant-some-pines/ Udi and I watched Michael Moore’s “Farenheit 9/11″ tonight. I realize it’s been out for a while, and that the corruption and scandals it reveals are already well known, but still, it got me thinking. First of all, if it is true, most of it, you don’t even need all ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2007/02/04/sex-and-war/ שלום לכולם וחג שמח! אני שמח מאוד להודיע על פתיחת גרסת ההרצה של אתר צמחיית ישראל ברשת לציבור הגולשים. האתר מרכז בתוכו מאגר מידע עדכני של צמחי ישראל, הכולל את רשימת הצמחים, תמונות, ומבחר תכונות של כל מין. נכון לרגע זה האתר כולל מידע על 2856 מינים שונים (רובם מישראל ומיעוטם ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2006/06/02/%d7%a6%d7%9e%d7%97%d7%99%d7%99%d7%aa-%d7%99%d7%a9%d7%a8%d7%90%d7%9c-%d7%91%d7%a8%d7%a9%d7%aa/ מצחיק איך פועלת האבולוציה. בהתחלה הלכנו על ארבע, עם הזמן התפתחנו,התיישרנו, שחררנו את הידיים והפכנו להולכים על שתיים. כל זה רק בכדי להמציא דרך ללכת על ארבע שוב. היינו מוקסמים מהיעילות של ההליכה על ארבע. דניאל והילי היקרים מטיילים בניו זילנד. מילותיהם מחממות את לבבותינו המתגעגעים. http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2006/03/17/%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%a1%d7%a4%d7%a7%d7%98/ Spoons Originally uploaded by Udi Oron. Happy hanuca! We are alive and kicking in Israel, for those who missed it. Here is a classic picture. Let’s see who knows where is it from. Chau, Udi+Sarit http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/12/27/spoons/ לאלה שהתעניינו מה מעשי בהמשך הדרך: אני חזרתי להימלאיה, ברכבת קטנה ומדהימה המתפתלת גבוה מעל לצוקים ודרך מעל למאה מנהרות והרבה הרבה גשרים, שבסופו של דבר מגיעה לבירת הימצ’ל, שימלה. שימלה ידועה יותר כמשכן הקיץ של השלטון הבריטי בהודו. מדי שנה הממשלה וכל משרדיה היו מהגרים מהחום המזעזע של ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/30/shimla-himachal-pradesh-india/ The minute we left our plane in Indira Gandhi Airport we understood what we didn’t miss anything outside North India: The heat wave, together with unexpected pre-monsoon moist was really unbearable. On the other hand, the shopping was much better…. The Main Bazaar street, one of the prototype of ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/30/delhi-india/ For more aerial fotos - click here The flight from Leh to Delhi took us over the endless Himalaya mountain range and I said my goodbyes (for now) to the mountains that have accompanied our travels for over three months. http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/29/flight-from-leh-to-delhi/ Can’t get enough pictures? Then click here! Our last few days in Ladakh were spent in the Nubra Valley - the northern-most point in India foreign tourists are allowed to go. Since the buses were fully booked, we again had to hitch a ride - this time in style, as part ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/29/nubra-valley-ladakh/ For more fotos, click here please! Since our time in Ladakh was limited, we set out on a two day trek between villages in the Indus River Valley. Our first stop was the village of Likkir where we stayed at the Norbu guesthouse. We enjoyed sipping tea and looking at the ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/29/likkir-rizong-mini-trek-ladakh/ For some more pics, click here After the long drive, we arrived in the main city of Ladakh - Leh. Being in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, Ladakh is a high altitude desert, and Leh lies at an altitude of 3,500 meters. The Ladakhi population consists mostly of Tibetan Buddhists, ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/29/leh-ladakh/ For more snowy landscape pictures, click here At 3 am on June 14th, we waited in the dark for our jeep from Manali to Leh. The drive was to take 20 hours, with only short stops for food. Once the jeep finally arrived, we headed up the ascent to the first ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/29/manali-leh-road/ It has been a while since we updated - so here go a string of updates of the places we have been in the last few weeks. After Dharamsala, we headed to Manali, the main town of the Kullu Valley. The Kullu Valley is a very green, beautiful place, with ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/29/manali-himachal-pradesh/ We are in amazing Ladakh. stop. Having excellent time. stop. Internet time is expensive so the real updates will come later when we arrive in Delhi, tommorow! http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/24/leh-ladakh-india/ Click here for more photos! We’ve just returned from our third trek - From Dharmsala to the Chamba Valley. The trek took only 5 days this time and was different from our other treks in that we needed camping and climbing equipment - no guesthouses this time. So we had to ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/11/indrahar-pass-trek/ Let’s get things organized… Mcleod Ganj is only one village of what is more widely known as Upper Dharamsala. This area became the home for the Tibetan Government-in-Exile and for many Tibetan refugees, who came here in 1959, following His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama who escaped the hostile Chinese ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/06/03/more-about-dharamsala/ 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? http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/05/30/stuck-in-mcloed-ganj/ 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 ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/05/30/rishikesh/ and for a few more pics, click here After hiking an average of 20 km each day, we needed a rest! So we headed to the village of Kausani, with spectacular views of the same Himalayan mountains we had just trekked through. As written in the Lonely Planet (we refer to it ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/05/21/kausani-uttaranchal-india/ For the complete trek photo album, click here Last week, we did an amazing 7-day trek to the Pindari and Kafni Glaciers. The trek began in the small village of Loharket. We arrived in there mid-day and spent the day and night there, where we were lucky to observe ... http://www.babasushi.info/blog/2005/05/21/pindari-and-kafni-glacier-trek/