{"id":1073,"date":"2014-09-19T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inaheartbeat.ca\/tyl\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2014-09-19T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:20:33","slug":"bhutan-day-2-thimphu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2014\/09\/19\/bhutan-day-2-thimphu\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan Day 2- Thimphu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bhutan Day 2 Thimphu<\/p>\n

25 degrees and sunny – the weatherman here is as good as at home – so in fact it was cloudy with intermittent showers<\/div>\n
Peak altitude – 8593<\/div>\n
Everyone Well<\/div>\n
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Philosophical Musing – while turning the prayer wheels or walking around temples, using beads individuals say the following mantra om mani padme hum<\/em>\u00a0– The 14th Dalai Lama (Wikipedia) stated that the six syllables, om mani padme hum<\/em>, mean that in dependence on the practice of a path which is an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform your impure body speech and mind into the pure exalted body, speech and mind of a Buddha.<\/div>\n
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Prayer Flags over Thimphu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Bhutan Facts – the country is 550 km east to west but takes 2 days to drive across. It is broader than it is tall, but you can\u2019t drive north\/south as there are no roads\u2026.. It is bound by China to the north and India to the east, south and west.<\/div>\n
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Update from last night – we had an archery competition – this is the national sport!!! Dale did the best.<\/div>\n
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Archery!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Up today and off to tour Thimphu. We visited a number of sites including the Art School, the Cultural Museum, the Textile Museum – brilliant. We had an opportunity to see how life has been lived here – with 3 story houses – cattle\/animals on ground floor; grain on 2nd floor; living quarters kitchen and prayer room on third floor. Houses are made out of mud but it is beaten down so it both looks and has the texture of cement.<\/div>\n
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Had a local lunch and then stretched the legs on a ridge above Thimphu – gorgeous but it did rain down on us – we were able to break out our OSC gortex – that stuff is impermeable! magic – reached 8593\u2026\u2026.all i could think was 2 miles down and about 248 to go.<\/div>\n
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Back in to town to our now favourite Karma Kafe.<\/div>\n
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This evening we were dressed up in local Bhutanese attire – a Kira for the girls and a Koh for the boys. Its a lot of fabric wrapped and wrapped around you and then tied but like a Sari there isn\u2019t really any formally fasteners\u2026.We watched a traditional dance company perform masks and everything and then on to a very traditional dinner – it was an immersion for sure.<\/div>\n
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Traditional Dress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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