{"id":286,"date":"2008-03-24T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiatravelblogarun.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/24\/photo-essay-beyond-manali-iii\/"},"modified":"2010-10-25T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T07:21:15","slug":"photo-essay-beyond-manali-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/photo-essay-beyond-manali-iii.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo Essay &#8211; Beyond Manali &#8211; III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><em>Travelling in Himachal in June &#8211; 2007<br \/>\nShimla &gt;&gt; Manali &gt;&gt; Rohtang &gt;&gt; Chandratal &gt;&gt; Ki\/Kibber\/Tabo &gt;&gt; Kalpa &gt;&gt; Shimla<br \/>\n+ Previous: <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/photo-essay-beyond-manali-ii.html\">Beyond Manali &#8211; II<\/a><br \/>\n+ Next: <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/exploring-solang-nala.html\">Exploring Solang Nala<\/a><br \/>\n+ Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/finding-himachal.html\">beginning<\/a> of the story or <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/index-to-lahaul-spiti-and-kinnaur.html\">index page<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We walked over snow, crossed Solang stream and walked up the mountain on the other side.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/mar08\/solang_18.jpg\" alt=\"Solang Nala, Manali\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We spotted sheep grazing and a few shepherds on mountain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/mar08\/solang_nala_3.jpg\" alt=\"Solang Nala, Manali\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mountain was covered in green grass interspersed with tall alpine trees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/mar08\/solang_15.jpg\" alt=\"Solang Nala, Manali\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we walked further, we saw many flowers littering the landscape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/mar08\/solang_16.jpg\" alt=\"Solang Nala near Manali\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little ahead was a small waterfall coming down from a rocky incline.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/mar08\/solang_17.jpg\" alt=\"Solang Nala near Manali\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walking further up and above the waterfall, we found many more colorful flowers spread on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/mar08\/solang_13.jpg\" alt=\"Solang Nala, Manali\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The shepherds were already leaving when we reached near the place where they were. The last man left behind was dousing the fire they had made for preparing tea and was herding out the last remaining sheep.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/mar08\/solang_nala_2.jpg\" alt=\"Solang Nala, Manali\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The forest ahead was thick but few trees grew in places where the incline was steep, leaving green open spaces covered with grass and white flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Continued at <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/exploring-solang-nala.html\">Exploring Solang Nala<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/book-resorts-home-stays-and-hotels\/manali-hotels\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3625\" title=\"manali\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/manali_620.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/manali_620.gif 618w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/manali_620-300x95.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelling in Himachal in June &#8211; 2007 Shimla &gt;&gt; Manali &gt;&gt; Rohtang &gt;&gt; Chandratal &gt;&gt; Ki\/Kibber\/Tabo &gt;&gt; Kalpa &gt;&gt; Shimla + Previous: Beyond Manali &#8211; II + Next: Exploring Solang Nala + Go to beginning of the story or index page We walked over snow, crossed Solang stream and walked up the mountain on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,35,112],"tags":[17,517,127,544,206],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-himachal-pradesh","category-mountains","category-photo-essay","tag-himachal","tag-himachal-pradesh","tag-manali","tag-photo-essay","tag-solang-nala"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-4C","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/5178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}