Tengboche is a monastery complex and a couple of trekking lodges on the route up to Everest Base Camp from Lukla, in Nepal. It sits high above the waters of the Dudh Khosi.
Inside Tengboche monastery following a puja (ceremony).
Rightly or wrongly, I don’t like taking photographs of pujas in monasteries. It feels intrusive and bad mannered. I would feel the same in a church, mosque or temple. This has nothing to do with any beliefs of my own, but is born of simple respect.
I noted in my diary: We have just sat in on a chanting puja, but my meditation failed dismally. I was completely unable to concentrate on my breath as all that I could think of were my freezing feet!
It was blooming cold!
Mick Canning 
Such rich colours! I too could not meditate there either, too much interesting stuff going on around me, too captivating to switch off from.
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I know – always so much happening: chanting, drums, gongs, candles…especially after nightfall. But for me, it was the cold!
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Reading this made my feet cold. Let’s call it sympathy pains. Either that or I’m remembering way too many frigid days in the mountains.
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Certainly a Thick Sock Situation, Gabe.
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Wow! When did you visit Nepal Mick? How/Did you like it? 🙂
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I’ve been four times now, Aditya. It’s a fantastic place, and I can’t wait to go back there again sometime.
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Oh, thank you. It’s of course, fantastic. 🙂
You are always welcome Mick. Hope to see you on your next visit, if the situation permits.
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Thanks, Aditya. Whereabouts in Nepal are you?
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Currently in Kathmandu. But hometown is some 100 Km east of Kathmandu. Am quite nomadic these days.
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I am very fond of Kathmandu. Your hometown must be somewhere around the Everest region?
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No, not that far east. Somewhere between Kathmandu and Lukla. Even closer to Kathmandu than Lukla.
Whereabouts do You live?
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I’m from the UK – in the South east.
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I knew you’re from the UK via your contacts page.
South east? Around London that means? 🙂
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About 50Km to the South of London.
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Colorful. I’m generally ok with taking pics of empty temples, etc, but if people are using them that’s another story. With people permission should come first.
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Yes, that’s my attitude, too.
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