Who knows what trouble we’re off to as we leave the entrance hall of the lodge owned by the Queen’s mother–5 star… we had an 800 square foot suite on the bank of a large trout stream.
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Retail therapy, income redistribution, and site seeing, in this town…. so far our hands are doing what IS most important.
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We visited so many forts, temples, monasteries, nunneries, Stoopas, and other places it is hard to keep them straight except in a slower walk-through than this blog permits. Here we are in front of the temple and monastery in Haa.
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Our guide Phuntsho and travel assistant in Bhutan, Vikki, outside of the monastery where we had a private blessing ceremony with a Lama (senior monk). In the overwhelming temple, 8 monks, chanting, horns, drums, then words in English, then blessings, neck mala, and Q&A–he had been to Spirit Rock! Small world.
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A 400-year old farmhouse. We had hot-rock steambaths here before we had dinner with the family. Note the angle of the support beams.
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Post-earthquake repairs at a pass at 11,000 feet–108 Stoopas of great significance–one for each joint in the body.
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One of the structures at the pass.
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The never-ending maintenance… mostly out of view except for us nosy visitors…
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… a fort from about 1650…
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A “new” “barn” like many across the landscape as we hike through villages filled with people with eager smiles.
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