Back to list

Prayerflags in Drukgyel western Bhutan

5,374 0

Pfriemer

Premium (World), Bangkok

Prayerflags in Drukgyel western Bhutan

Participators walking to the Archery celebration.
Archery is tradition; it's songs and dances and jeers and near-primitive howls. It's the works to someone seeking the unusual. All that could be just a facade.
Under the surface, and away from the real game, there's plenty a foot. More than a tourist could ever imagine and some locals too.
Every time a major archery tournament is on, be it in the village or at the capital, strange things are happening. Perfectly sane, and often well placed men, are doing things that would otherwise have been dubbed completely insane.
It was the starting point of our trekking tour to thge Jomolhari base camp.

(The photo I captured with a KODACHROME slide film in April 1998 during my second tour in Bhutan. Scanned with NIKON CoolScan V ED.)