Annapurna
Circuit 5
The
Himalayas and some of the people and creatures therein.
If
flags are your thing, then this is the place to be.
Most houses
will have the big prayer flags on a pole. Strings of
smaller
ones stretches across small valleys. And even the yaks
seem
to congregate around them. The mornings are often calm
in
the Himalayas. But by noon, the comes up in force and
sweeps
mercilessly up the mountain valleys.
The stone chortens are rock structues which are built
on many
of the smaller peaks, and in the main passes through
the Himalayas.
The monestary in hese photos is more than 700 years
old, as
are most of them in this area. So, when it was built,
Christopher
Columbus was not yet born.
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