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11 March 2010 tagged airport, armoured personnel carrier, army, baksheesh, book, canal, caretaker, chowkhang gompa, coffee, computer, dal lake, email, fish temple, flight, floating store, french wife, gompa, hill, hindu, horse, hotel, houseboat, india, indian, indian archaeological society, internet cafe, islam, island, kashmir, kashmir valley, ladakh, leh, marijuana, military, mohammad, monastery, money, mosque, mountain, movie, muslim, pahalgan, paulo cohelo, people, photo, photography, photos, picture, riding, runway, school, sledding, snacks, snow, soldiers, srinigar, stars, strike, temple, the zahir, tibetan restaurant, victoria, view, weather with no comments
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 [...]
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11 March 2010 tagged acute mountain sickness, airport, altitude, ams, beanie, book, buddhism, buddhist, ceremony, chess, children, chowkhang gompa, cold, dalai lama, email, flight, goa, gompa, heater, hemis gompa, ice hockey, india, internet cafe, jacket, kashmir, kids, korean monastery, ladakh, lama, leh, leh palace, market, monastery, namgyal tsemo gompa, palace, paolo cohelo, photograph, prayer, retread, shay gompa, skating, skating rink, snow, soma gompa, stok gompa, taxi, tea, temple, the zahir, thiksay gompa, thukpa, tibetan market, tour, tyre with no comments
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 [...]
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3 March 2010 tagged blue, buddhism, buddhist, face, field, flags, girl, gompa, green, himalayas, mountains, nepal, photo, photography, picture, portrait, sky, spring, travel, wheat with no comments
top – a gompa against a blue sky middle – a young girl poses for the camera bottom – wheat fields in spring
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23 March 2009 tagged aston villa, australia, begging, book, buddha, buddhas, bus, computer, controversy, cricket, crowded, dalai lama, deki lodge, demon, dorje shugden, family, fish and chips, flayed, football, frescos, gompa, hawking, hill view hotel, hull, india, kalimpong, liverpool, macabre, map, memory, monk, mountains, myanmar, photography, photos, restaurant, ryan, sartaj, shower, siliguri, sleep, snoring, soccer, south africa, spirits, statues, sunday, terraces, thailand, tharpa choling gompa, thongsa gompa, tibet, tibetan, tourist, train, tshirt, valley, vanilla ice cream, wigan with 3 comments
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 [...]