Category Archives: Trekking the India Himalayas

Trekking in the Himalayas of India is an excellent way of keeping fit. Unbelievably for many Australians the Himalayas are not crowded with people and the trails are still the highways for the local people and not really for tourists. I go in our winter. At that time of year it is a magic place to be.

Fertiliser

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

Just an update. As I said in the last post we had rain on the weekend. Whilst this could cause disease in the fruit trees such as brown rot it meant that the fertiliser I added last week got soaked … Continue reading →

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Trekking in the Himalayas

Posted on August 16, 2011 by

You might be wondering what has happened to my Farmer’s Blog. Well the answer is simple. From the middle of June to the beginning of August I went trekking in India again. this year I went by myself as Ann … Continue reading →

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Kishtwar to Baltal-day2

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

  Day2- July6  Sonder to Hanzal (yellow line on map)   It was not such an early start this day as Om and myself were enjoying each others company over breakfast on their terrace. Farook, my porter turned up at 7am as … Continue reading →

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Kishtwar to Baltal-day1

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

Day one -the 5th July   Kishtwar to Sonder (red for road travel, blue for trek)  Preamble: I am writing this at Dr. Masood Shah’s home in Srinagar after completing a 7 day trek from/to as labelled above. This trek is … Continue reading →

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