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Pictures with enlightening captions

Something seems fishy about this

River crossing in Laya

Plastic waterfall. Almost fitting.

I become the dragon for an evening

I hadn’t even started the race yet!

Prime real estate – one of the most beautiful homes ive ever seen

Not a bad setting for Bhutanese Sunday league

Winnerz

The view on my doorstep. The court will be filled with students playing futsal and basketball when the semester gets up and running – the site of the inter-department upcoming futsal tournament

The crew and the closed museum

Happy haircut

Me and big ben

Me and nick cooling off with an ice cold pose

The blue roofed view from my dinner table for the first few days here

Shirts tailored from Kira material – now wearing the swastikas at my internship in Munich – a lot more love this time someone is wearing the symbol here

Beautiful sunset walk

Me feat. some outer-Paro villages

The biogas used for cooking in Wangdue

Hiking hunnies

85% of a Bhutanese flag

I become the dragon for an evening #2

Dramatic Thimpu Chu with a 50m tall Buddha in the background

A friend’s apple cider vinegar operation – have been lending a hand and giving some biotech advice

The invisible trekking path through dense jungle 500m away from RTC campus

Making friends playing the chrome-no-internet-dinosaur-jump game

Paro Pano #1

The steps leading up to my room on the fourth floor

Me and the donkey

Winnerz

Treasure shop in Dajeeling

Before the race

The giants in bhutan with a biogas user

Hiking action shot

Strongman

Brenny and hillz

Bare Hindu kush. Very stinky chess

The quite aesthetic transformers dotted around campus

Stupas made of clay and cremation ashes of the dead (I have a post talking about these)

Paro Pano #3

There are the most diverse and pristine mushrooms in the damp hills above campus. I did not ingest.

Little breakdown jam on the way back from Laya

Best use for an old tyre

Part of the 45km, 2000m ascent

Feelin cool

The identity of the persons pictured have been censored for their safety

Some moastic angles (shout out to Andy B for the inspo)

Monastic cock

Final walk to class

4000 ish meters in the sky

Moth and painted wall

Some hiking superheroes

Darts

Sri Lanka ladies vs. Bhutan ladies

The accommodation on campus – realised afterwards these are the girls dorms. Could have looked a little odd especially given the very gender segregated rules here

Glacial melt flows from 6000 metres up flows down the Paro Chhu into Paro

Final group picture before leaving – i sure miss these guys n gals

Happy birthday Alaina!!

Sporting my new attire

The running track that I failed to light jog around without hyperventilating on my first day at 2500 meters

More campus huts and hills

Life as a monastery dog ain’t too bad I imagine

The view from my bathroom – not a bad sight to shower to every morning (it almost makes up for the 2500 meter-cold water)

Horses and yak herdsmen transporting yak-y goods to town

Thanking my heairdresser for the bolt

Ferocious campus dogs

The reason we hitchhiked to Paro: the closed Bhutan National Museum (6 floors apparently)

Me repping the latest Picasso feat. Paro Chu

Sunday league pitch for the week

The king’s private supply of Thai sturgeon fish

Some cycling stars

Now thats some cheese

Sporting my new attire #2

The many steps leading to Paro Dzhong

Crossing the deadly rapids on the hike to the Royal Highlands Festival

Tenzin the dog posing outside the college cafeteria although I believe his motivations for our friendship are food-based

Closed museum

Puppies round the fire

Alaina and the biogas

Thimphu markets on a Saturday afternoon

Paro Pano #2

Digging a path for our taxi. We didnt even get a tip!

The flags with the names of those who are important to me hung at The Tigers Nest on Dec 4th, my birthday

So thats why i haven’t been able to taste anything since returning home

Illegally parked

Agricultural labs

I wouldnt mess with those guys

Lighting strike in the fresh trim to honor the land of the thunder dragon (Bhutan)

Me and big ben #2

Handsome boy

Hillz

Biogas research in Wangdue

looks kinda shit

Handsome and handy

The flags made it to Munich

Embracing my new alter ego complete with rings and lightning feat. Paro Dzong

The red panda! Didn’t taste like the meer

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