Woman with offerings

I met this woman while we were stuck behind an accident on the mountain road to Jakar. I asked her, through our driver, what she was doing with the hemlock branches she was collecting from the trees on the side of the road. She said she was going to burn them as an offering at her home shrine.

KUZUZAMPO!!!

June 13th 2010
So here is an update, finally! Our busy schedule and lack of reliable internet has made blogging pretty impossible. Sundays are our only free days, so weekly updates may be possible. A lot has happened since I arrived in Bhutan on June 1st, so a few highlights: I got my first glimpse of the snow capped Himalayas on the plane to Paro, where we landed on the country's only airstrip (and only ... read more

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In 1865, Britain and Bhutan signed the Treaty of Sinchulu, under which Bhutan would receive an annual subsidy in exchange for ceding some border land. Under British influence, a monarchy was set up in 1907; three years later, a treaty was signed wher... ... read more

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