I left Manali thusday night at 5 in preparation for the 12hr bus ride that turned into 14hrs. Upon arriving into Jammu I was greeted with a bag search by the local police, obviously I didnt get into any trouble. When i finally got off the bus the autorickshaw tried charging me 50Rs for a 2min drive and then he couldnt find me a hotel and the one he did find was 500Rs a night and CRAP, and we had to walk there! I talked them down to 400/night and the thing was alot of hotels wouldnt take me because i was North American and Jammu is located in Kashmir which is still kinda hostile...which didnt result in a very good birthday, crappy room, dirty dirty city, although there were some good temples, the city was just too intense with all the military around and ppl acting shady. So i passed out at 4:30 and accidently slept til 11:30 so everything was closed when i woke up, then I watched some cricket and fell back asleep. Overall, crappy day, but the Birthday celebration will be in Delhi when I finally meet up with Sheila and Catherine.
In Amritsar now, home of the golden temple, so ill go see that and some of the other things in town then head to Delhi on the 23rd!
thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone!
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well mike i hear how you spend your birthday is how you will spend the rest of the year.. good luck with that one
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