May, even if its the last week, will be too early for the flowers. You
will see some no matter when you go, but to see the valley in full bloom
mid-late June/July would be a good bet.
Its very climate dependant, so the best thing to do would be call up the
GVNP (you'll find them on the web) office, and check...this is imp.
because you might find the road/valley inaccessible if the weather
conditions are bad.
HTH,
Savita
Deepa Mohan wrote:
Vardhini: We are going to Uttaranchal next month (our present schedule
is 18th to 29th May) and would like to know...when you went in May,
was the Valley of Flowers in bloom or was it too early? We could
extend our trip by a few days if that would mean we could see it in
bloom. We are visiting Binsar Nat'l Park, Munsiyari and Corbett (both
of us are reasonably fit and can trek,but we are going with another
family who has a small child)....so do let me know how the weather
was, and your feedback about V of F.
After posting on Bangalore LJ, I find myself constantly checking if my
post is "appropriate"!!
Deepa.
On 4/26/06, *Vardhini Shankar* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Here is another intro
This is Vardhini (Preetham's wife to Radhika, friend of Udhay's and
known to a few others on this list). Udhay persuaded me join in 1999
and I used to post once in a while in the good old days - now I lurk.
To earn my living, I design and develop manageability software for
telecom equipment and these days also manage (sigh!) a team of
software
developers. I live in the San Franciso bay area and these days I find
myself day dreaming far too often (atleast once a day) of early
retirement.
When I am not working, I read a lot - from mystery to science
fiction
to the the National Geograhic. The last really interesting book I read
is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Story of a shipwrecked sailor". I take
voice lessons for fun, hike , run half marathons , dabble in nature
photography and listen to various forms of music. I also make a decent
Sangria (so I was told at my husband's last birthday party ).
If any silklisters in the south bay area want to get together for a
hike or a run, I am always interested.
I am no good at expressing my thoughts in words so I started
maintaining a photo journal of my travels and significant events in my
life a few months ago at http://pvmemoirs.com
<http://pvmemoirs.com> (perennially under
construction)
Vardhini
--- "Radhika, Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> for all of you fans of six degrees of seperation (a film i
> recommend), the
> story of how i got onto Silk might prove the now common adage. I
took
> the
> train to Bangalore from Chennai in December 2003 when i had come to
> India to
> undertake a training course in video editing (chose to combine this
> with
> holiday). I began chatting with the gentleman next to me-one Biju
> Chacko-on
> a variety of inconsequential things and he mentioned that I might
> consider
> Silk as a place to converse(he added that most of the conversations
> would be
> similarly inconsequential and attractively odd!). I later found out
> that I
> had another connection to Silk through Vardhani (my friend
Preetham's
> wife).
>
> The thread that binds me to Silk is lurking. I professionally
lurked
> at the
> World Bank for a few years and now I work at a non-profit in
> Vancouver (
> www.icsc.ca <http://www.icsc.ca>) and lurk in the dramatic
documentary shorts world. I
> speak
> Spanish and gravitate toward languages (am learning to write Urdu
> now),
> writing poetry, and music of all sorts. The skills I really envy are
> the
> ability to draw or paint and to play an instrument(can only play my
> voice).
> Its pretty safe to conclude that my numerical literacy except for
> dealing
> with household budgetary figures every now and then is fairly
> dormant.
> Somebody famous once said that mathematics is the ability to
predict
> the
> future and truly i am unable to do that! My Eureka moments are
likely
> to be
> in the middle of congested traffic and when in a crowd rather than a
> bathtub!
>
> We keep a cozy house at our apartment but house guests are always
> welcome
> and my culinary skills are in an emerging market situation right
> now-there
> is greater demand (from my husband of 3 months vintage) and supply
> seems to
> be keeping up. Well, one of you will have to pay me a visit and
> verify that
> for yourself!
>
> Cheers.
> Radhika
>
>
> 2006/4/25, Ashok Hariharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
> >
> > Since introductions seem to be the flavor of the moment, here
goes.
> > I 've been on silk for about a year, i think. I was on the
> evolt.org <http://evolt.org> chat
> > list, and one day Madhu sent
> > a link to a thread on this list, dont remember what it was about,
> but it
> > was certainly interesting.
> > after that I signed into the silk list.
> >
> > i am originally from Madras (and before that from Pune,
Calcutta,
> > Tinsukia, New Delhi etc... my dad
> > was in the army). about 7 years back, I shifted myself to Kenya,
> where I
> > 've been ever since. I am
> > a technology consultant specially focused upon the sub-saharan
> Africa
> > region that includes:
> > kenya, uganda, tanzania, ethiopia , rwanda and burundi. At one
time
> i used
> > to deal with congo, but
> > they tend not to pay with currency, so i had to drop that.
> >
> > in this region there are no specialized software companies, call
> centers,
> > development houses etc...
> > but people still want software, customized applications,
websites,
> > services and so on. generally its
> > the governments, the NGOs and the aid agencies, or big shady
> corporations
> > who have money to
> > spend - and so i basically chase the money. i also tried my hand
> at a
> > couple of other things on
> > the side,like for e.g. importing toilet paper from egypt and
> selling it
> > her, but it was a dirty business,
> > so i quit.
> >
> > i like drinking beer, reading, travelling (not neccessarily in
that
> order)
> > apart from work. at the moment
> > i am reading the book of mormon, because one of their missionaries
> (and we
> > get plennnnty of
> > them types here) left a free copy at my doorstep. if any
> silk-lister is
> > anytime in this part of the
> > world, i promise to buy them beer - and if you are decent
enough, i
> have a
> > spare room in my house.
> > i blog intermittently at http://www.unganisha.org.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Radhika, Y.R.
> Project Manager, ICSC
> Centering Women in Reconstruction and Governance
> International Center for Sustainable Cities
> Vancouver, BC
> Ph: 604-666-0061
>
