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Ladakh, Goats, Cashmere, the Changtang and Modi

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Ladakh, Goats, Cashmere, the Changtang and Modi

This is in an area called the Changtang, a place of nomads - and with nomads come goats. And with goats come the soft pashmina and cashmere wools. 

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Tibetan Healing and Singing Bowls

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Tibetan Healing and Singing Bowls

Yesterday a customer & I used two bowls in the shop to create a powerful resonant sound for several minutes. My spine still tingles as I write this blog.

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Return to India - Stopover in Delhi

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Return to India  - Stopover in Delhi

Just arrived back in India, today’s a stopover in Delhi before we fly to the high altitude desert of Buddhist Ladakh. We visit the ruins of the third Delhi at Feroz Shah Kotla and the 2000 year old Ashoka column. 

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Trekking in Ladakh and Zanskar

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Trekking in Ladakh and Zanskar

2016, we returned from the wonderful landscape and culture of Ladakh and Zanskar, a Buddhist region in northern India sandwiched between Kashmir and Tibet, an ancient culture often called Little Tibet.

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In Spiti: Tales from the Buddhist Himalaya

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In Spiti: Tales from the Buddhist Himalaya

Rocks the size of buses perch on the slopes over our heads; the road is covered in the smaller stones that roll down the hill. A thin path zigzags down from the track to a stone building by a curve in the stream far below.

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