WHERE THE DRAGONS FLY…
July, 2014
From the school we set off with a group of children whom we are visiting today. As we walk, they cheerfully chatter away. During the afternoon and evening, children from one family always accompany us to the next one. We walk past the fields of corn and peas. Here the children pick some, as we walk past a chorten and a prayer wheel, which must be span.
As we approach the dwellings, a little girl shows us – this is where I live! A large animal stands in front of the house. It’s bigger than a cow and with bushy fur. It’s a dzo, an intergrade to yak, which live in the highest altitudes, since with its thick fur it would be too hot down here in the valley. I photograph the house but it turns out that I am wrong – this isn’t the house of the girl. The family we are visiting lives next door, in what I first assumed to be a ruin…
Read the stories from the Himalayas here: WHERE THE DRAGONS FLY…
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