Bhutan Day 4

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  Wangduephodrang, Bhutan
Monday, October 20, 2008

The first noise heard on the earth was OM. When you are in Nepal, certain parts of India and here in Bhutan, you constantly here that song, the prayer, and I am now hooked, and the worse part of it is I'm not religious
 
Om Ma Ni Pe Me Hung
 
I sing it all day, at every temple, stupa or chorten. The locals are impressed, but secretly, I've been brain washed !!!
 
Off we drove into the mountains. Not hard really as they are everywhere, as we are in a landlocked country in the Himalayas !!! Now the drive is meant to take around two and a half hours, but I slept for about two of it, which is a little bit of a downer as I am missing all these mountain views.
 
We kept going up, until we arrived at our first site
 
Gangtey Gompa
 
It's another huge old manastery, which had just been restored and the head Lama had consecrated it last week. Well, only the temple has been restored, and all around the outside are sleeping quarters for the monks. They were everywhere, which is to be expected as it is a monastery.
 
After we had seen enough, Lucy needed the toilet. The guide said they were grim, but she is strong. On the way down, there was shit everywhere, so I took a piss outside, and Lucy being a girl went in. Once out, she said she'd never experienced a drop toilet like it. There were planks with huge holes, but there was shit everywhere as for some reason, the people who had used it, couldn't find the hole !!!
 
Once done, we had a ninety minute trek to do through the countryside to another temple. Whilst walking along, it was once again like the Annapurna circuit, well it was until we went down off of the track. Apparently there use to be a lake here, and the earth never dries, so it was wet, and then muddy, until we started to sink !!! Obviously, whoever is out there had not been listening to me sing OM !!! But the guide had so he came over and laughed, which kind of helped, because I pulled myself out, and onto the temple we went. I didn't get the name of this one, but it was old looking so we did the right thing and left a donation. I kind of felt a little sorry for the monks here as twenty of them sleep in the one room, and they did tell me it gets cold, maybe this was why I did what I did !!!
 
We left there and had a picnic style lunch, before we moved on up to the Pele La pass. It wasn't as good as the last one, so we left after the standard photo shoots.
 
Back down the mountain we went, back towards our hotel, but I don't remember much as once again, I slept !!!
 
And Finally
 
Not as much to see today, but it was still good. No matter how long I have been here, I never grow tired of the mountains. They are mesmerising, and maybe this is why I sleep so much !!!

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001 Mountain View	002 Mountain View	003 Gangtey Gompa	004 Stupa, Gangtey Gompa
005 Gangtey Gompa	006 Gangtey Gompa	007 Monks at Gangtey Gompa	008 Gangtey Gompa
009 Gangtey Gompa	010 Gangtey Gompa	011 Painters, Gangtey Gompa	012 Gangtey Gompa
013 Lucy at Gangtey Gompa	014 Gangtey Gompa	015 Gangtey Gompa	016 Gangtey Gompa
017 Gangtey Gompa	018 Gangtey Gompa	019 Painting, Gangtey Gompa	020 Painting, Gangtey Gompa
021 Painting, Gangtey Gompa	022 Toilet, Gangtey Gompa	023 Toilet, Gangtey Gompa	024 Toilet, Gangtey Gompa
025 Toilet, Gangtey Gompa	026 Prayer Wheel, Gangtey Gompa	027 Toilet, Gangtey Gompa	028 House, Gangtey Gompa
029 Painting, Gangtey Gompa	030 Stupa, Gangtey Gompa	031 Steamroller, Gangtey Gompa	032 Lucy Walking, Gangtey Gompa
033 House, Gangtey Gompa	034 House, Gangtey Gompa	035 Gangtey Gompa	036 Gangtey Gompa
037 Stupa, Gangtey Gompa	038 View, Gangtey Gompa	039 View, Gangtey Gompa	040 Gangtey Gompa
041 View, Gangtey Gompa	042 Temple, Gangtey Gompa	043 Lucy Walking, Gangtey Gompa	044 David Walking, Gangtey Gompa
045 Lucy Walking, Gangtey Gompa	046 Lucy Walking, Gangtey Gompa	047 Temple, Gangtey Gompa	048 Temple, Gangtey Gompa
049 Prayer Flags, Gangtey Gompa	050 Temple, Gangtey Gompa	051 Stupa, Gangtey Gompa	052 David and a House, Gangtey Gompa
053 Yak, Pele La Pass	054 Yak, Pele La Pass	055 Yak, Pele La Pass	056 Prayer Fladgs, Pele La Pass
057 Stupa, Pele La Pass	058 Stupa, Pele La Pass	059 Prayer Flags, Pele La Pass	060 Prayer Flags, Pele La Pass
061 House, Pele La Pass	062 Painting, Pele La Pass	063 Painting, Pele La Pass	064 Painting, Pele La Pass
065 Painting, Pele La Pass	066 House, Pele La Pass	067 Painting, Pele La Pass

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