The final days of my Monastic Loop 'trek' - really a five day hike-and-explore among the monasteries and villages in a region in western Sikkim. This is around Tashiding monastary. On the penultimate night at sunset I ended up together with two Austrian hikers up on the mountain above Tashiding's village, where there was another monastery whose name escapes me now, where we were told we would find a place to sleep. There was none. Luckily, after much knocking on doors and nonverbal communication, we convinced a nice family to let us stay in the rooms usually reserved for the monks. Beautiful fog covered scenery and colorful Buddhist religious artifacts dotting the hilltops - there ain't nothing better in life!
This might be my last post in this blog for a while, at least in the 'retroactive travel blog' category. Grad school work is gonna hit me soon! My China picasaweb page is fairly complete; India's isn't, but keep looking for more new photo uploads from India on my facebook page. Well, thanks for reading so far, let me know what you think!
Itamar
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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