Himayala: Hih-MAH-lee-uh
That’s right folks, it’s not “hih-muh-LAY-uh”! We were corrected several times by the natives.
I just got back from a trek into the Himalayas of Utteranchal via Haridwar and Rishikesh (where the Beatles went to visit the Maharishi). We took the train from Delhi up north and met up with our guide Rajinder at the lovely Camp Hammock.
We stayed overnight there and the following day made our way to Teva village which served as our base camp for the trek up to the 3500m peak of Nagtiba (variously Nagtibba, Nag Tiba, or Nag Tibba, take your pick). Teva sits in a moist deciduous forest, which is apparrently different than a temperate rain forest. All I know is that it was very, very wet, and very, very beautiful.
Anyway more later, but photosets are up on my Flickr page.
