......So straight from the camel safari and on a 15 hour bus ride to Amritsar. Suprisingly comfy considering we could have fallen out at any time, especially the way they drive out here.

Amritsar is home to the Golden Temple. A holy pilgrim site that gets more than 60'000 visitors a day!!!! There is a huge building on site around the temple where anyone can sleep, a separate area for foreigners is set up with beds and lockers. Donations are the price for staying. Also a huge catering area supplying food for free to pilgrims.

The Golden Temple is really the only good thing to see in town. It is a modest sized golden temple in the middle of a man made lake surrounded by further marble buildings...very tranquil. The water supposedly has healing powers and holy men chant from the Sikh 'holy book' continuously, echoed around the complex. Em found the temple very calming since being ill for so long. She got up early to do meditation by the lake and felt right as rain. Perhaps the healing powers work!!!

Moving on we then took a bus heading north to Dharamsala in the Himalayas. This was one hell of a journey. Firstly the doors (front and back) were permanently open on the 7 hour journey. Secondly as well as the driver trying to break the land speed record in a 1970' bus the roads for most of the way were too small for the traffic on it and very badly maintained.

We arrived in Dharamsala (home to the exiled Dalai Lama and many Tibetans) at around 7pm. Tired and hungry we set off for a restaurant with a couple of Canadians we met on the bus. We then stayed in the next town McLeod Ganj for the night before heading off 2km north to the small village of Bhagsu.

Compared to the rest of India it is very chilled up here. No one is bugging you to buy there stuff all the time, the streets are quieter, the air is fresh and life is more relaxed.

The first night in Bhagsu we stayed in a hotel not to our liking. The toilet stank and it was fecking freezing...oh and no hot water and the reception stank of piss!!! That night also I threw up all of the meal I had eaten earlier. It wasn't the food as Emily had exactly the same, but I think it may have been the whole pot of ginger honey lemon tea.

Next day we checked out sharpish, walked a little further up hill and found a lovely guesthouse with a verander/court yard. A lovely cafe 20 yards uphill is chilled and a great German bakery serves up great breakfast.

We plan to stay out here for possibly up to 4 weeks, to perhaps get in some trekking, meditation, yoga, volunteer work helping Tibetan Kids speak English and lots of chilling out.

This place is like the walk up to the stone circle at Glastonbury but in the mountains....hippies, monks, stalls, remedies, jam nights etc... love it.

Oh coming along great on the harmonica, can now play 'Happy birthday to you', 'God save the queen' and 'How many roads must a man walk down'.

Watch this space for more updates.

Jamie 'Dylan' Wentzell