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Monday, Mongar in central Bhutan
Today we drove to Khoma Village, home of some of the finest weavers in Bhutan and also the area in which our guide, Karma, was born. The road, as windy as ever, followed a river, and we passed rice fields and rock cliffs and pine forests. Needless to say, it was amazingly beautiful. We have become semi-obsessed with the terraced rice paddies, and Larry probably has enough pictures of them to fill a camera memory card. Rice, of ...
Sunday, Tashigang to Mongar
Let me try to describe what a day, this day, was like. I woke up around 6; Larry, as usual, was up earlier. He headed out to take pictures of two women harvesting rice in the terraced fields next to our hotel. Breakfast at the hotel was pretty simple: a choice of scrambled eggs, rice, toast, and corn flakes. Unfortunately, the only choice for coffee is instant Nescafé. I miss the good coffee of home. Before we left the hotel, we discovered a band of ...
Saturday, eastern Bhutan
... with mud. Now, of course, they use modern techniques and nails, but the buildings don't last as long. As an amusing aside, there is a university campus in El Paso in which all the buildings are built in the Bhutanese style. Apparently the president's wife read a National Geographic article about Bhutan's architecture and persuaded her husband to adopt the style for new buildings. We stopped at Chorten Kora built in 1740. Chortens are ...
Mongar
... prayer flags terug te vinden op de hoogste pas die we moesten passeren. De symboliek nagelaten, het is een machtig zicht om al die vlaggen te zien wapperen met dat op de achtergrond.
Tijdens het rijden, kwam er ineens een vreemd geluid van onder de auto en ik dacht dat we iets geraakt hadden of zo, maar hier leggen ze blijkbaar bamboe stokken op de weg zodat de autos die kunnen platrijden en ze daarna makkelijker er iets mee kunnen maken. Had dat toch graag geweten voor ...
En Route to Mongar... Wellcome to this Hotail!
The road from Bumthang to Mongar is long, high and tall. We drove through a huge forest of Rhododendron before we crossed the Thumsingla Pass, at 3800 metres.I tried a small sprint at the top and my pulse raced to 200 in 30 seconds flat. Altitudes ain't no joke!
Afterwards, it was straight down, almost. Steep and curvy roads. ...
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