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Subject: [Leica] Riding to the Tiger's nest Paro Bhutan - complete message
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:28:02 +0530
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Quite the dizzying climb!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:17 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
> Hi Luggers,
> In the brief lull between Christmas and New Years I have taken time to 
> edit some more of my Bhutan pictures and here is a series
> on the Trek to the Tiger's Nest - the most famous of Bhutan's monasteries 
> - perched on the side of a cliff 900 meters above the Paro Valley.
> The monastery was built in 1692 and has been destroyed by fire twice - 
> once in 1951 and again in 1998. It was rebuilt using a cable system in 
> 2000.
> Having ridden horses to get to the look out point we couldn't imagine how 
> the original building materials were carried up the cliff - except by 
> faith and willing strong backs.
> I have set up a folder of the journey, with explanations for each photo, 
> here:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/BhutanTigerNest/CafeStopw.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/l26e342
>
> Starting with this photo please move left and please look large. The 
> photos were all taken with Olympus (EM 5, EM 1) or Fuji equipment (X100s)
>
> C&C always welcome.
>
> Howard
>
> PS: Sorry for the incomplete message sent earlier - my touch pad is too 
> sensitive.
>
> PPS: Happy New Year to all - we will start to party in about another 5 
> hours.
>
>
>
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