Back in Shimla

9 days and about 900 km later and I'm back in Shimla. The countryside was amazing- some of the nicest scenery I've ever witnessed. Sad to say, my time in India has come to an end- 10 hr bus ride to Delhi tomorrow morning, and I fly back to Singapore the following night.

These photos are of the Ki (also spelt Key/Kye) Monastery in the Spiti Valley. This was the furthest I travelled from Shimla, about 400km away, in a sideways U shaped journey east and north of Shinla. The monastery is 1009 years old (!) and some of the rooms actually look like they are a thousand years old, with old timber and faded, moth eaten scrolls on the walls. Funnily enough, the monk that was showing me around and who I had chai with had been to Singapore a couple of years back, and a bunch of Singaporean monks had stayed at the monastery for a few of months- some kind of monk exchange programme.