Bhutan Waterfall Transformation: Then and Now
Description: This is a place that has changed a lot since my second visit to Bhutan in 2013. The waterfall is located right along the main road that winds through Continue Reading →
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Pot Dipping
Description: Sorry if the title confused you and made you click on the photo to see it better. This type of pot is the type made near Bhaktapur Durbar Square Continue Reading →
Walking And Praying
Description: Monks and nuns want to be comfortable too, thus the puffy jacket and new shoes. It gets cold in rural Bhutan. Location: Bumthang Valley, Bhutan, Asia Photograph copyright Peter Continue Reading →
Light On The Light
Description: Sometimes the devotional butter lamp candles of Buddhist temples are housed in their own space. Often times, this is after an accident has caused a fire, as all the Continue Reading →
Rural Nepali Home Still Life
Description: Inside a small one room home near Chitwan National Park in Nepal. Location: Bharatpur, Nepal, Asia Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Globs Of Gharials
Description: Gharials are a member of the crocodile family and are fish-eaters living in rivers of Nepal and India. This tangle of crocs is found at a breading center in Continue Reading →
Alpenglow In Haa Valley
Description: It was the second to last night of our Bhutan photo tour in 2013 when the snows started in the Haa Valley of Bhutan. A bit beautiful at first Continue Reading →
More Masked Dancing
Description: Continuing the theme from the past few days, it’s time to experience the Cham dance. As much as you can from a screen. 🙂 Location: Bumthang, Bhutan, Asia Photograph Continue Reading →
Eyes Behind The Mask
Description: Masked dancers don’t have the greatest field of view. Dances at a tshechu, or festival, in Bhutan are often a slow affair. Take a look here in Wikipedia. Location: Continue Reading →
Next On Stage: Black Hat Dancers
Description: The Black Hat Dance, or Cham dance, is something of a regular at Bhutanese festivals. Having a look around YouTube for examples makes me want to grab a video Continue Reading →
Mask Fitting
Description: More prep work for a masked dance high in the Himalayas of Bhutan. Location: Bumthang Dzongkha, Bhutan, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Bhutanese Mask
Description: In 2023, while leading a photo tour through Nepal and Bhutan, we had the good fortune to witness not only a day of festivities and celebration in a small Continue Reading →
One-horned Rhino Side-eye
Description: Not every rhino wants its picture taken. Location: Chitwan National Park, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Lone Tsa Tsa
Description: A lone tsa tsa sits along the shelf in a Buddhist monastery in Bhutan. Location: Jamphel Lhakhang ???????????????, Bumthang, Bhutan Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All right reserved
Himalayan Weather
Description: Clouds breaking before a stoney wall of towering peaks. In the Himalayas. Location: Solukhumbu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Lonely Near The Top Of The World
Description: A throwback to 2010 when I attempted to climb a peak known as Kyajo Ri. It’s my only tall mount attempt (word used twice already because I did not Continue Reading →
Lumbini Firewood Bike
Description: The title says is all. It’s a bike in Lumbini, Nepal that is used to deliver firewood. The bike is aptly named Hercules. Location: Lumbini, Nepal, Asia Photograph copyright Continue Reading →
Dancing Colors
Description: The masked dances in Bhutan, while not overly flashy by American standards, make up for it with bright fashion. Location: Bumthang Region, Bhutan, Asia copyright Peter West Perry. All Continue Reading →
Punakha Dzong In The Spring
Description: In the middle of Bhutan sits one of the most nicely situated dzongs (fortress with both government and religious administration) in all of Bhutan. Punakha Dzong is well placed Continue Reading →
Circling The Temple
Description: A Buddhist nun circles along the outside wall of an ancient temple in rural Bhutan. Location: Bumthang, Bhutan, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All Rights Reserved.
Dharma Wheel Before Boudhanath Stuppa
Description: First, an apology for naming yesterday’s Photo Of The Day incorrectly! It happens… Yesterday’s photo was taken at Swayambhunath Stuppa, not Boudhanath as is today’s photo. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Continue Reading →
Swayambhunath Reflections
Description: Light from the inside, reflections from the outside. Location: Swayambhunath Stuppa, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Seeing The Forest For The Rhinos
Description: Chitwan National Park in Nepal is the place to be if you want to spot rhinos. Especially the Rhinoceros unicornis. Location: Chitwan National Park, Nepal, Asia Photograph copyright Peter Continue Reading →
Rhino Out For Breakfast
Description: Morning time is the best time to see rhinos that are out for breakfast, chomping away at the grasses along the Rapti River in Nepal. Location: Nepal, Asia All Continue Reading →
Brave Man In A White Shirt
Description: Pottery crafting in Bhaktapur, Nepal goes back centuries and is still practiced by hand to this day. Location: Bhaktapur, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey
Can’t Stop Spinning
Description: All day long, the prayer wheels spin. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey.
Kathmandu Bike Shop
Description: It seems like they have everything you might need to fix your bike. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey.
Machermo, The Dog
Description: We called him Machermo because that’s the village where he started following our group. For about four days this wonderful dog hung out with us while we took photos and Continue Reading →
Rhesus Macaque Mother And Baby
Description: Rhesus Macaques are the monkeys that give Monkey Temple (Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu) its moniker. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey.
A Beauty Of A Horn
Description: A lot of the One-horned Rhinos we spotted in Nepal’s Chitwan National Park have decent but ‘realistic’ horns. What do I mean? I mean this example below is not normal. Continue Reading →