(Leah and I recently returned from a three week trip to India and Nepal. This is the 11th of about 13 daily posts I will do, sharing photos and journal notes I made as we traveled.)
Hemis Monastery, Ladakh
July 13, 2014
Today Leah and I hired a driver with a sturdy vehicle and nerves of steel to take us out the winding, bumpy, precipitous road that climbs high above the Indus River out to three secluded monasteries: Shey, Thikse, and Hemis. Our ultimate destination was the annual Hemis Festival, an amazing and colorful spectacle of Tibetan Buddhist ceremonial dance.
Though we came to Ladakh primarily to attend the Kalachakra teaching by the Dalai Lama, we found that the teaching schedule was such that we could squeeze in the trip to Hemis, and we jumped at the opportunity.
