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Road to Phobjikha in the Highlands

Road to Phobjikha

It is time to get up into the highlands of the country as we go from 4500 feet to 9600 feet in just a few hours of driving along some of the most brilliant landscape you can imagine. 

Going along the windy roads was met with the brilliance of the pine covered landscape with the sun shining so brightly among the mountains. …

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We had the chance to stop in a village and walk along the street and talk to people.  A few men were sitting along a store front enjoying the weather as they were quite keen to us taking their picture.  As we stopped into a tea shop, the waitress who had a very highland look to her served us….

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As we kept climbing up in the mountains, we suddenly started dropping down into the glacial valley in which thousands of migrating Cranes come there during the winter months to feed.  The villages in this valley looked something like Switzerland with the beautiful backdrop of the rolling hills.  We had a chance to hike along the valley on a nature trail and enjoy the vastness of the land that went on for miles. 

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During our lunch, we went to a home stay to eat some local food they grow in the area and I had a chance to photograph a beautiful highland girl who was the sister of our driver.  Her smile and generosity she showed us made me respect this culture even more than I already did

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After our hike, we ran across the Gangtey Goenpa Monestary from the 17th Century.   As we had already been to a few monasteries, we were not expecting much, however we were treated a festival which happens at most once a year (pictures not included) and noticed some of the more wicked looking drawings and carvings in the monastery wall…

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