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Manali Bazaar. Barber’s shop and a shoe stall, with second hand trainers.
Manali Bazaar. Visiting Zanskaris shopping.
Manali Bazaar. Lahauli women.
Manali Bazaar. Zanskaris wearing felted wool cloaks shopping & a Kullui in tweed waistcoat
Nagar Castle PWD Rest House John Keay at breakfast
Kot village, arched balcony viewed between the buildings.
Manali village. Over view of slate roofs, note no other roofing materials. The houses are densely packed together. Saving agricultural land? And/or easy access between neighbours in deep snow winters?
Cobbler. Manali Bazaar almost no plastic and no trainers
Manali Village. Young girls one in tweed ‘pattu’ and one in tweed dress, standing on paved courtyard, slate roofed buildings behind.
Kullu Chamba & Tanjin climbing towards Lambadukh from Manali, towards the first camp on the first day of the first trek, in the monsoon. Heavy packs.
Manali village. Young girl in tweed dress. Note: Manali village is not Manali bazaar. These days Manali village often referred to as ‘Old Manali’.
Manali village. Carved timber balconies. Child crossing from balcony onto slated roof. Flagstone steps.
Manali village. Slate roof, timber balconies, stone paved courtyards. Gourds climbing on to roofs. In 1970 Old Manali and most villages looked like this. By the 1980s access to new building materials meant rapid change in locations with road access.
Manali village. People on timber balcony. A loom and some fleeces. Cattle below.
View from Gulab Das’s guest house, down to Goshal village & across to Vashist village. A neighbour standing on rock in foreground
Manali village. Little girls in tweed ‘pattu’. Building behind timber ‘bonded’ construction, with stone.
Manali village. Two girls, both wearing tweed ‘pattu’. Timber balcony & slate roof behind.
The Barabangahal side of the Kali Hind Pass, 15,000 ft. The first trek. Sonam and Chamba negotiating the glacier, where we found the lamb.
Sarahan rest house and its kitchen. View up towards Bashleo pass behind the rest house.
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Vice Regal Lodge façade and garden. Monsoon mists.
Vice Regal Lodge two servants at the entrance porch.
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The coat of arms of the UK with the lion and the unicorn, over the entrance to Vice Regal Lodge. It was completed in 1888 when Lorna Dufferin was Viceroy.
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A street sweeper in front of Oberoi Clarkes Hotel, John and I stayed here to meet Mr Mahajan of the Tourist department on our way to our first trek.
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Sahib Singh’s shop on the mall from the outside.
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Zanskari man after crossing the Rohtang on his way to Manali bazaar.
Kothi ‘dhaba’, on the way to the Rothang pass.
Kothi ‘dhaba’, on the way to the Rohtang Pass.
Zanskari group after crossing the Rohtang on their way to Manali bazaar.
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Near Katrain, woman and cattle on terraced fields – stubble after the harvest.
Near Katrain. Evening light, the silhouette of a man carrying a plough and two children, poplar trees.
Near Katrain. Evening light, the silhouette of a man carrying a plough and two children, poplar trees.
Zanskari group after crossing the Rohtang on their way to Manali bazaar.