Spent Brothers Productions presents
  
BHUTAN
8 - 22 March 2019

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Nyingmapa gompa  Temple
Visiting a gompa where the high lama had been "lying in state" for several months awaiting an auspicious date for his cremation, which was a few days later

Derek & Karma at Trashigang Dzong  Trashigang Dzong
Visiting Trashigang Dzong in full formal dress

Inner courtyard of dzong   Dere & Sheila
Dzong inner courtyard

Inner decorations
Intricate decorations abound

Gomphu Kora tsechu  festival
The festival begins - the raising of the thondrol, unusual in that it is painted as opposed to the more general applique
The thondrol is only raised once a year at the tsechu

Dancers apppear  Onlookerss
The dances begin / The tsechu is hugely popular & pilgrims come from faraway to enjoy the spectacle, obtain blessings & show off their finest clothes

Onlookers   Brokpa people who have come down the high places
Brokpa people from the high pastures

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