Tabo
Travel Blogs from Tabo, India
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Warm shower = heaven!
... more antibiotics - I finished my emergency course three days ago and, knowing this tooth, it'll be flaring up any day now. Tabo isn't big enough, but tomorrow I'm going to Kaza and hopefully there'll be a clinic there. Best lasagne ever (apart from ...
Dancing with strangers
... magnificient monastery and the hours seem to slip by(next morning) as I wander through its ancient walls. A taxi ride takes me from Tabo to Maling, where my travel companion, my bike, is awaiting repairs. The army mechanic does a quick fix and it feels ...
The Mahavairochana Mandala
... the Guge Kingdom temples, Tabo Monastery was a glimpse into the past, showing the sacred evolution of Buddhism as it spread from India into Tibet. One thousand years ago, Buddhism was waning in parts of India as seen in the cave temples of Ajanta and ...
Tabo Monastery
We spent the afternoon visiting Tabo Monastery. The monastery is built of mud brick and mud stucco, resembling the adobe structures of the U.S. Southwest; stark and beautiful. We were the only visitors in the afternoon, and apparently there ...
The caves in Tabo
... is fantastic! The mountains look different here. The cliffs are rugged and pointy, but the slopes are perfectly even, covered with gravel. Tabo sits on the bank of Spiti River, and everything looks lush and green. On both sides huge walls of rock shoot ...
Monastery vilage
... really hard to get off the bus. And I start to have my concerns about how will I get on this bus tomorrow. The village of Tabo is very small and is built around the gompa. There is a gompa's guest house - here I stay - they have hot water! ...
Oh Tabo
... with the abbot, Sonam Wangdu, of the monastery. He escaped with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama XIV, in 1959 and has been in Tabo ever since. Also, he has a Geshe degree, which takes over 20 years to earn. It was interesting to hear his ...
These are the Days in Tabo
Today, after breakfast we went to the local school in Tabo that is run by the monastery. We toured thier classrooms and hostels. The kids' ages ranged from 5 to about 14 or 15. There were around 300 students, and they all learn English, ...
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