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Here's how we spent the day today. Plus a few monks and cranes and bearded vultures. It's been marvellous.
Lunch with the potato farmers today.
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Sunshine is out in force again. I love winter in the Himalayas because it's dry and sunny, plus it's super cold at night which means I get a good night's sleep!
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If you ever travel to Bhutan make sure you leave enough time here to journey all the way to Gangtey in Phobjikha Valley. It's a real gem of Bhutan. Potato farmers, migratory cranes, a magnificent gompa and some beautiful forests.
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Got invited inside to take part in their puja ceremony. One of those things that happens sometimes when travelling around Bhutan.
The more guests who attend the more special the puja. I'm heading back next week and I'll take a bunch of prints for them.
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Just can't describe how lovely it is to be here.
I spent the last 90 minutes enjoying a "hot stone bath". Imagine a wooden tub not unlike a water trough, but one end has a timber divider to keep the boiling hot rocks away from your toes. When you want it hotter, they just drop another hot rock in there for you. A log fire outside the shed is where they heat up the rocks. Radiant heat, in a wooden tub. Magic.
Amazing light in Gangtey this morning. I love love love Bhutan in the winter. There's nothing quite like it.
One toot wasn't enough! This is a very special place. I've visited here maybe a dozen times and it's never the same twice.
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Gangtey Gonpa this week, deep inside Phobjikha Valley. Bhutan.
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Favie moment of the day. Arrived at the gompa and a little desk next to the door looks like official business. Only it's a novice monk, barely old enough to hold a pen, scribbling pictures of kittens.
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