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- Six-hundred year old monastery built when this region was part of Tibet.
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- Mother and young yak, seen occasionally in the lower Eastern Himalayas.
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- Young monks who are painting the traditional designs at Dirang Dzodze? gompa.
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- Baby Mithun with mom; these semi-wild animals are often seen in the highlands.
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- Colorful hotel in Tawang.
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- Dalai Lama image in nunnery prayer hall.
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- Interior of main prayer hall at Thukje Chueling Buddhist Nunnery.
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- Welcoming Buddhist nuns at Thukje Chueling nunnery..
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- Cambodian Journalist Kounila Keo shows girls their photo on her phone.
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- Highly decorated entrance to the Nunnery’s prayer hall.
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- Kounila shows older nuns their photos, to their delight.
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- The nunnery’s prayer wheels; spinning them sends a prayer heavenward.
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- Detail of copper prayer wheel and flags
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- Huge golden Buddha in main hall of Tawang Monastery.
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- One building at the side of huge Monastery.
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- Dancers inside the courtyard at Tawang Monastery
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- Women from the Monpa ethnic group which makes up most of the population of Tawang.
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- The Monpa woman on left wears a typical felted cap of yak hair, with long ‘tentacles.’
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- Tawang Monastery from afar with Himalayas in background.
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- Colorful prayer flags send messages to the skies.
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- Village in the lower Tawang Valley.
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- Golden ripe rice fields. Rice grows below the village.
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- Mama shows how to properly whack the rice stalks to separate the grains.
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- Bringing in the rice harvest.
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- Farmer working on rice harvest, Tawang valley
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- Corn strung up to dry in the sun.
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- Dancers at a folk dance event.
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- Man with traditional felted yak hair cap.
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- Dancers in traditional costume; Tawang.
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- A plant lover lives here in Tawang!
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- Waterfall that looks smaller than it is!
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- ”Welcome to Tawang’ gate at Sela Pass.
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- Blue wild flowers in the highlands.
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- Showing off the traditional Monpa hand-woven jacket
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- Monpa lady with traditional dress.
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- Weaver doing the supplementary patterning on traditional jacket.
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- Weaving skirt
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- Toasting corn; Old Dirang
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- Bountiful corn crop drying in the sun, Old Dirang.
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- Young painter in the Dirang temple.
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- Roadside temple, Old Dirang.
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- Back of a typical man’s jacket.
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- Inside of palm leaf roof in a local home.
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- Piggies!
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- Soft green landscape between Tawang and Dirang.
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- In particularly pretty areas, we got out of the van to walk in nature.NE India.
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- Beautiful ferns and palms grow alongside the road between Dirang and Itanagar.
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- Interesting weaving decoration used to blend sections of color with the larger white area.
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- Bringing rice to the wedding. Apatani people living in this village and the women wear nose-plugs.
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- The bride in white hand-woven skirt leads her wedding procession; Apatani village.
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- Apatani wedding guest.
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- 6am wedding procession; friends of the bride all bring a big basket of rice in honor of the couple.
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- Tibetan-style potstickers called Momos are a delicious and traditional food.
