Manaslu & Tsum Valley, Day 16 Samdo – Dharamshala

 

When I love mountains,

mountains love me

                                     Dogen

 

 

Although the walk from Samdo to Dharamshala is only 5 miles up the mountain,

it takes hours to reach Dharamshala.  The place consists  of a few stone houses and several huge tents.

Dharamshala was founded as a refugee camp for Tibetans and

is now used by trekkers as a last shelter before crossing Larkya La, the pass over the mountain.

 

 

 

Enjoying a balloon
Enjoying a balloon

 

 

Yaks ready to transport wood to Tibet
Yaks ready to transport wood to Tibet

 

 

Leaving Samdo
Leaving Samdo

 

 

Meeting on the path
Meeting on the path

 

 

Alpine Flower
Alpine Flower

 

 

Path in the mist
Path in the mist

 

 

Gentian

 

 

Gentian
Gentian

 

 

Reaching Dharamshala
Reaching Dharamshala

 

 

Dharamshala
Dharamshala

 

 

Keeping warm
Keeping warm

 

gwwien
gwwienhttps://simplyjustwalking.com
Born and raised in a village along the Danube in Austria, Traude Wild soon ventured out into the world. After a two-year program for tourism in Klesheim/Salzburg, she spent nearly a year in South Africa and Namibia. By returning back to Austria, she acquired a Master of Economics at the University of Vienna. After moving to the United States with her four children, she studied Art History at Arizona State University and stayed in the United States for fourteen years. Here, she was teaching Art History in several Universities like Webster University and University of Missouri-St. Louis. Now, she lives partially in Arizona and Vienna and works together with her husband for the University of South-Carolina, Moore School of business as Adjunct Professor organising and leading Study tours in Central Europe. She also teaches at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. Since 1999, she is practicing Zen meditation in the lineage of Katagiri Roshi. She loves to hike and to write and is a student of Natalie Goldberg. During her often many weeks long hikes she brings her awareness into the Here and Now, describing her experiences in an authentic way. She loves to walk pilgrimages. The longest hike so far was the 1,400 km long 88 Temple pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan in 2016.

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