travels in ladakh - 2

Here's some more photos from my recent trip to Ladakh. The page may take a short while to load, but if I made the pictures any smaller, you wouldn't be able to see them properly!

Prayer wheels - each spin of the wheel says the prayers for you.
From the roof of a monastery. It's almost impossible not to sit and reflect when faced with the spectacular settings of these buildings.
An ancient doorway in the nunnery at Yangtang.
Inside a monastery.
Some new artwork in a monastery. Artists specialising in religious paintings tour the monasteries.
These kids walk two hours every morning over a mountain pass into the next village to go to secondary school. Then every night they walk back again! Six days a week!
A local family in Yangtang. The man on the left is spinning a prayer wheel.
A view high in the hills. The colours of the mountains vary tremendously, with the Himalayas ever presnt in the distance.
Not sure if this is official wiring or not! The back streets of Delhi are full of this sort of thing.
At the Gandhi memorial in Delhi - the text says:

The Gandhi Talisman

Recall the face of the poorest and the most helpless man whom you may have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he be able to gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words will it lead to swaraj or self-rule for the hungry and spiritually starved millions of our countrymen? Then you wil find your doubts and youself melting away.

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