Bhutan travel
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Buddha is big here, obviously, super big. So big that the world’s largest Buddha statue is being constructed on a hillside over looking Thimphu. But that is not what I mean about being big. I mean big as imbued in people’s lives at all levels. Officially Buddhist temples and the religious hierarchy are part of
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It is 4 am and we are already in our car headed back to Paro from Punakha where we famously met the King and Queen the day before. 4 am because the road is closed between 8 and 10 am or later for construction and an early departure will guarantee we will easily make it
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I just double checked our itinerary and indeed there was no planned meeting with the King or Queen today. The only items were a long drive from Trongsa where we stayed the other day for a festival and a visit to the Punakha Dzong. Like Europe and churches, at some point the dzongs all start
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It is always a wondrous day when you eat pancakes. Even more so when you thought you finished a small breakfast and unannounced one more plate with some pancakes, thinly sliced fried potatoes and a local apple is brought out. When the mountains outside your window are suddenly revealed to be dusted with snow from
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My friend Dave and I arrived in Bhutan five days ago now. I had read up, I knew what to expect…Okay, not entirely. I did not expect the country to have such a thing for penises. Many house have ones painted on the outside, hairy or hairless, ejaculating or not.. I did not expect at
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My path to Bhutan took me to Dallas first to catch a plane to Shanghai. The flight path was due north flying by my former home Minneapolis into Canada and eventually over the top of Alaska. I famously could really see Russia from there or at least clouds over Russia. Just a few days after
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It was a wonderfully sunny and warm day in San Francisco today. It always does that when I leave on a trip as if to say, “don’t leave me, it is so nice here, unlikely to be this nice anywhere else.” But I know the city is fickle and today’s lovely weather will change, the
Alan Lessik 