Sat, Jul 16

5:48 am: morning stop at mandi - a bus is a bus, a bus is not an aeroplane - stretch your legs. Zuzer is still zozing.

9:17 am: reached manali - 14 hrs precisely - everyone's back on cell phones.

10:47 am: checked in into iceland hotel, had a nice shower. Its in solang - kinda away from all the manali crowd - river and steep rock face on one side, green mountains topped with mist on the other.

11:28 am: great breakfast - omlette, great paranthas and kela!

2:56 pm: drove back to manali johnson's cafe - good ambience - good continental food - has been a great day so far - relaxed.

4:40 pm: on our way back we go to the paragliding maidan - zuzer tells us it take 20-25 mins to go to the takeoff point. Kshitij disagrees and takes the challenge - well, not bad, 15 minutes

9:06 pm: raat ke nau baje so ke uthe hai - neeche janta daaru pe baithi hai - yeh koi mahesh naam ka old aadmi baitha hai - gande marta hai, baby doll dekhta hai, badiya hai! Pata laga ki outbound training karta hai - his biggest regret in life in ''swimming nahin seekha'' - imagine! zuzer calls him a classroom mountaineer :-) Swimming!!?