Special day at the temple

These lovely ladies in national costume posed for our photo!! That is a huge revolving prayer wheel on the hill next to the temple.

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Leaving the Middle Kingdom

July 18th 2010
On our last day in Shangri La we awoke to the sound of Buddhist monks chanting - om ra hari om… om ra hari om … - with temple bells and horns breaking the morning serenity. From our hostel room window we could see the huge automated prayer wheel in the hillside temple complex spinning faster than usual as it reflected the early morning sun. As it turned out, this was a special day (although ... read more

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