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Nepal and the Himalaya
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We went to Nepal just a few months before the earthquake in May 2015. We sent funds to different agencies and also direct to our trekking guide who’s been buying building materials for his home village.
In Spiti: Tales from the Buddhist Himalaya
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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.
Journeys in the Buddhist Himalaya - the Drive to Spiti
The mountains on either side of the river valley are sharp edged, the ribbon waterfalls fall a thousand feet to shatter on to black rock and the hanging glaciers are brilliant in the bright sun.
Buddha Statue on a hilltop in Spiti
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Spiti is small area of northern India close to the Tibetan border with a old Tibetan Buddhist culture. A few miles south of Kaza, the main town in Spiti, a side track leads to the village of Lantza.
What goes into Tibetan Incense?
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For a few days I searched for the source of the fragrance until I found Tibetan incense drying on the roof of a building which turned out to be a small monastery and home of Dr Dhadon, the maker of Tara Healing incense.