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Prayer flags in Sikkim, India. Filmed en route Lachen and Gurudongmar, in north Sikkim, along the Teesta river. Thick high Himalayan forests in the background! Also, a lone alpine shepherd's hut on an open meadow and grassland! A prayer flag is a colorful panel or rectangular cloth often found strung along mountain and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes. Traditionally, prayer flags come in sets of five, one in each of five colors. The five colors represent the elements and the Five Pure Lights and are arranged from left to right in a specific order. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India
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