Sunday Afternoon Hike

This past Sunday, the Physio Department Head, Sanga took us for a 6km hike with 3 other physiotherapists from the hospital. It was a gorgeous hike – it started off relatively flat (for Bhutan that is!!) and we arrived at a monastery about an hour into the hike. We entered the monastery and saw the footprints of a monk who prostrated so many times that the outline of his feet were etched into the wooden floor. One of the monks told us that he prostrated upwards of a 100,000 times - talk about dedication. We then sat down and had tea and snacks. The Bhutanese are serious about their tea – Sangay (a friend of one of the physios) carried it in a huge canister the entire hike!! After some snacks and tea, we embarked on the second part of the hike which was definitely more treacherous than the first half – definitely got my workout for the weekend!!

Karma, Sangay (carried our tea the entire hike!), Sangay, Sanga (our faithful, blind guide), Thinley

Wongduetshe Monastery

Bhutanese woman drinking

Little girl spinning the prayer wheel

Prayer Wheel

Me - loving Bhutan and my life here :-)