Himalaya
Day 106: Thimpu to Takstang
Wall paintings on a house on the way up to Takstang temple. What I thought was a rat was a weasel, seen here disgorging pearls of wisdom.

The main dishes are challenging. A long, stringy vegetable of some kind seems determined to strangle me from within, smashed chicken and red rice is dotted with small bone fragments and the cow-hide is, well, an acquired taste. One which, I fear, would take armed men with rifles at my head to acquire.
Our time among the flesh-pots of Thimpu is distressingly brief. Tomorrow we head north to Jomolhari mountain to begin a valedictory trek, a farewell to the high Himalaya.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Himalaya
- Chapter: Day 106: Thimpu to Takstang
- Country/sea: Bhutan
- Place: Thimpu
- Book page no: 249
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