I returned to my childhood whilst watching the Punakha Tsechu. Watching stories unfold before my eyes, I started to believe in magic again, in demons and monsters, in angels and saints, casting away my cynical view on life. Bhutan is like that … it opens up the mind and soul!
We spent all day here, at the festival, and had a picnic, with fellow Bhutanese people, inside the temple, on the grass at the entrance, and we shared our food with the local people, and young children, and the food that we didn’t eat we gave to the temple dogs! (at the next incarnation, dogs become incarnated as people in the human realm!).
Good Karma!
Bhutan is a very special place, I’ll remember the people and place for ever, it also has Beautiful Scenery!
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It’s been a little quite on the blog, because we have just returned from our 25 day journey from Panama to Guatemala in Central America.
We visited
Panama Canal – One of the modern wonders of the world
Bocas De Toro – Beautiful Caribbean archipelago
Monteverde – Cloudforest reserve, home of the Resplendent Quetzal
Ometepe Island – Twin volcanic peaks rising from Lake Nicaragua
Leon and Granada – Beautiful colonial cities, historically rivals for the title
capital of Nicaragua
Roatan Island – Spectacular reefs and stunning beaches
Copan – Famous Maya ceremonial centre
Antigua – One of the finest colonial cities in Central America
Here is a taster, before the photos are uploaded to the album, of lagoons and craters, punctuated with steaming vents and pools of boiling mud (Active Volcano) in Rincon de la Vieja, located close to the Nicaraguan border in the Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica.
Lindsey has sorted, and out of the original 1000+ photographs taken, these are the best 40%!
These photographs are straight from the camera, and re-sampled and reduced for viewing on the website, so they are not the original 12MegaPixel images, they have not been retouched either!
This picture does not feature in the album, it was later emailed to me, by another group member! As you can see the flask is half drunk, and Lindsey has a smile on her face, so must be smashed!
It was not widely published, but during the month of March 2013, Lindsey and I went to Ethiopia and Kenya for our holidays, the Ethiopia holiday photographs have now been uploaded to our Holiday Photograph Album
Lindsey has sorted, and out of the original 1000+ photographs taken, these are the best 40%! These photographs are straight from the camera, and resampled and reduced for viewing on the website, so they are not the original 12MegaPixel images, they have not been retouched either!