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| On the Kangra Valley rattler |
“Yes, all our rooms are empty,” said the man on reception at the Himachal Pradesh Forestry Dept guesthouse.
“Then can we have two rooms for tonight?” asked our friend Sachin.
Head waggle from reception man followed by, “No, we are not allowed to take guests - not during the election campaign.”
We retreated in the face of such government weirdness and spent the night in Mr and Mrs Puran’s homestay in their family compound in the neat little village of Nagrota Suriyan 2 km from Maharan Pratap Sagar (see previous post).
