School girls

Cute school girls in school uniform (at least the girls on sides:)

Vegetables

Vegetables at a local vegetable market.

In the picture, tomatoes, chilies, brinjals/eggplants, radish, potatoes.

Taktshang, Tigers Nest, Paro Valley, Bhutan

Taktshang Goemba, Tigers Nest,Paro Valley, Bhutan
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Paro Taktsang (spa phro stag tshang) / (spa gro stag tshang) is one of the most famous monasteries in Bhutan. It was built around the Taktsang Senge Samdup (stag tshang seng ge bsam grub) cave where Guru Padmasambhava is said to have meditated in the 8th Century.

Today it is the most well known of thirteen taktsang or "tiger lair" caves he meditated in at different places in Tibet and Bhutan.
Completed in 1692, the temple hangs on a cliff at 3,120 metres (10,200 feet), some 700 meters (2,300 feet) above the bottom of Paro valley, some 10 km from the district town of Paro.

Famous visitors include Milarepa, Machig Labdrön, Thang Tong Gyalpo, and in the 17th century Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal.
The name Taktsang (stag tshang) means "Tiger's lair", the legend being that Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) flew there on the back of a tiger.

The monastery includes seven temples which can all be visited.

Visitors ascend the slope to the monastery on foot or on mule-back.

Thimphu, Capital of Bhutan

Thimphu, capital of Bhutan. Isn't it a beautiful city?

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Beautiful Bhutan - Buddhist festivals

One of the main attractions for people travelling to Bhutan is the Buddhist festivals and there are plenty of them.

Bhutan is a destination reserved for priviledged travellers. Maybe it is because of this that Bhutan is ranked consistently as world's top travel destination.

Slow is Beautiful

Well, what is really beautiful about Bhutan?

As I said, besides almost virgin ecosystem and some Buddhist festivals, there is nothing much happening in Bhutan. Like Khyentse Norbu's Travellers and Magicians, life toils at a snail's pace or in some instance, it's almost static - like a framed photograph.

Flowers bloom seasonally. Spring is green. Autumn dry. Summer wet. Winter harsh. People hospitable and smiling, living life like a Dzogchen practitioner.

Yet, Bhutan is Beautiful...beautiful where life is slow.