hills

hills

The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains, usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya, is a mountain range which crosses Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and India.

Nepal·hills

Everest climbers take a break clicking pictures of the Himalayan peaks at the Base camp. Indian Army added another feather to its cap in May 2001, when its mountaineers successfully scaled Mount Everest and put a record eight members and se…

Nepal·aerial · hills

Kathmandu city seen aerially while flying Over Nepal. Kathmandu is the largest city and capital of Nepal and the namesake of the Kathmandu Valley.

Nepal·hills

Aerial view of Nepalese Himalayan range including Pumori to Everest massif. Pumori is a mountain on the Nepal-Tibet border in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. Pumori lies just eight kilometres west of Mount Everest.

river · hills

Flying towards Nepal over snow covered Himalayas including Everest range. Nepal Himalayas, Kanchenjunga east-central section and highest part of the Himalayan mountain ranges in south-central Asia, extending some 500 miles (800 km) from the…

village · hills

Prayer flags atop the mountains above Ngoba village, around Chele La. Forget me not or Myosotis alpestris flowers in the meadows around.

snow · hills

Near the Chelela pass above the city of Paro in Bhutan, Rupin Dang finds a Primula calderiana flower that has just bloomed right after the snow melt.

Bhutan·hills · monsoon

Landing at Paro airport is said to be one of the more difficult landings at any airport in the world, as the valley is surrounded by steep hillsides and snow mountains and any approach or exit from the valley must be rapid and steep, in ord…

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Landing at Paro Airport is considered among the toughest airport landings in the world. The plane needs to make a steep descent amidst a valley surrounded by hills before touching down on the runway.

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A Bhutan Airlines plane takes off from Paro Airport making a steep ascent post take off from the runway for flying past the hills surrounding the Paro valley. Our camera captures the complete take off in slow motion.

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Viewers tells us that the loud roar comes from the thrust reversers at work. They make a loud howling noise. Kind of like braking. It's very normal to hear this sound when landing on a short runway.

hills · politics

A Druk Royal Bhutan Airlines Airbus A319 lands at Paro Airport as it completes its journey from Delhi's Indra Gandhi Airport to Bhutan. Landing at Paro Airport is considered among the toughest airport landings in the world.

hills · farmland

A man explains how beer is made in a small brewery in central Bhutan's Bumthang valley. Bumthang District is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan.

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The incense here has been manufactured under the strict Buddhist traditional method and in the most hygienic environment, in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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The incense here has been manufactured under the strict Buddhist traditional method and in the most hygienic environment, in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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The incense here has been manufactured under the strict Buddhist traditional method and in the most hygienic environment, in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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The incense here has been manufactured under the strict Buddhist traditional method and in the most hygienic environment, in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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An indigenously-developed machine that has a pressure vessel where the paste of herbal ingredients is put into to give it a thread like form so that can be easily hand-rolled onto fine incense sticks and then sun dried.

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Incense sticks are dried out in the sun after the mixture of the herbal ingredients are rolled onto the bamboo sticks to coat the stick evenly.

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The incense here has been manufactured under the strict Buddhist traditional method and in the most hygienic environment, in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

temple · hills

Paro Taktsang is the popular name of Taktsang Palphug Monastery (also known as Tiger's Nest), a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and temple complex, located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley, in Bhutan.

Bhutan·hills · temple

Paro Taktsang is the popular name of Taktsang Palphug Monastery (also known as Tiger's Nest), a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and temple complex, located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley, in Bhutan.

hills · ceremony

A forest of prayer flags in the high mountains, blowing prayers and wishes of the Buddhist people across the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan! Taktsang Palphug Monastery (also known as Tiger's Nest), a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site an…