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travel diary – day 350

day 346 – it snowed like mad the whole day. after breakfast i walked around town taking photographs of the snow. it was a lot of fun because people were happy to let me take their picture – even though it was snowing and freezing cold. i returned to chowkhang gompa and took some photos [...]

travel diary – day 345

day 341 – i got started early for my flight to leh. at 5am i got a taxi to the airport but had to stop along the way when the taxi shredded a tyre. retreads are very common in india and the quality is, in a word, shit. 10 minutes later we were going again [...]

photos from nepal

top – a gompa against a blue sky middle – a young girl poses for the camera bottom – wheat fields in spring

travel diary day 17

day 15 (continued) – the overnight trip to siliguri was great. i slept comfortably for most of the trip.  day 16 - in the morning i woke up because the guy on the bottom bunk was talking so loudly. it turns out that he does everything loudly, when i got up an decided to read my [...]