Festival For The Ages

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Asia » Bhutan
December 23rd 2012

Published: June 23rd 2017

Geo: 27.5026, 90.5072After dodging our way through a few more neighborhoods of Jen N's phallic symbols we arrived in Trongsa and immediately headed to the Dzong to take in the opening day of the .... Festival. Since it was a rare winter festival, there were very few tourists, and because of the Blessing taking place in Punakha there weren't all that many locals attending so it felt like we... Read Full Entry

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16th January 2013

CarolC
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Suck intent looks on their faces, love it!

16th January 2013

CarolC
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Wow! Took me a minute to see but Wow!

16th January 2013

CarolC
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I can understand DH's phobia now, very scary looking clowns!

16th January 2013

CarolC
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Very colourful country!

16th January 2013

CarolC
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Very ugly scary face!

17th January 2013

Marlene S.
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Says who?

17th January 2013

Marlina
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How adorable

17th January 2013

Marlina
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What an adorable kid.

17th January 2013

Marlene S.
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Ya. I'll bet they're REAL SAFE now!!

17th January 2013

Marlene S.
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That's no my idea of a Clown! It looks very depressed!!

17th January 2013

Amanda
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Makes you wonder if the human species has evolved at all

17th January 2013

Marlene S.
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Very strange :(

17th January 2013

Marlene S.
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Can't say that I blame them!

17th January 2013

Marlene S
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Unbelievable! Blushing is an understatement, but still fun to watch! (That doen't sound right, even to me!!)

17th January 2013

Marlene S.
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I wonder if this behaviour has anything to do with all those Penis's painted on the walls? Really, they should start a committee to deal with the issue and have several protests at City Hall about this. Surely someone finds it offensive i
n some way?!?!Oh....that's right, I forgot. We're not in Kansas anymore : ) .....Carry on!!

17th January 2013

Marlene S.
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No wonder kids are terrified of Clowns!!

17th January 2013

Marlene S.
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OMG! Imagine if that was done in T.O. It would be demonstrations CENRAL!! Rallys, Demo's, Boycott's, Protests !!!! It would definitely keep us busy and employed! What a weak City we live in!!

17th January 2013

Marlene S.
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There we go with the PENIS thing again!! It's enough to turn you off for LIFE!!

17th January 2013

Marlina
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Is that what I think it is ?

17th January 2013

Marlina
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OMG !

18th January 2013

Rita
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What? No trip climbing the Himalayas. I'm disappointed :)

20th January 2013

Elaine & Doug
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Marlene's right. It looks like true love to us as well!

20th January 2013

Elaine & Doug
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We're not going to dicker about this (and we'll try to be careful with our diction) but how the dickens can some people believe that they have the right to dictate their moral precepts at every Tom, Dick and Harry!

20th January 2013

Elaine & Doug
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Your photos certainly capture thr colour & vibrancy of the Festival and while some readers may be discomforted by the overt display of genitalia and the over-the-top antics of the clowns, the Bhutanese's healthy attitude regarding sex
puts many of our 'enlightened' societies to shame!

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