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  • A Bhutanese woman holding a prayer wheel and rosary beads praying at the National Memorial Chorten in Thimphu, Western Bhutan. This large Tibetan-style chorten is one of the most visible religious structures in Thimphu and for many Bhutanese it is the focus of their daily worship. It was built in 1974 as a memorial to the third king, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. Throughout the day people circumambulate the chorten, whirl the large red prayer wheels and pray at a small shrine inside the gate.
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  • A typical Bhutanese hand painted decoration at Paro Dzong (fortress), Western Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) is one of the 'Zong Chusum' or 13 traditional arts and crafts of Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
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  • A Bhutanese woman holding a prayer wheel and rosary beads praying at the National Memorial Chorten in Thimphu, Western Bhutan. This large Tibetan-style chorten is one of the most visible religious structures in Thimphu and for many Bhutanese it is the focus of their daily worship. It was built in 1974 as a memorial to the third king, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. Throughout the day people circumambulate the chorten, whirl the large red prayer wheels and pray at a small shrine inside the gate.
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  • Two Bhutanese woman holding prayer wheels and rosary beads praying at the National Memorial Chorten in Thimphu, Western Bhutan. This large Tibetan-style chorten is one of the most visible religious structures in Thimphu and for many Bhutanese it is the focus of their daily worship. It was built in 1974 as a memorial to the third king, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. Throughout the day people circumambulate the chorten, whirl the large red prayer wheels and pray at a small shrine inside the gate.
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  • A typical Bhutanese hand painted door at Paro Dzong (fortress), Western Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) is one of the 'Zong Chusum' or 13 traditional arts and crafts of Bhutan. Painting includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
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  • A Bhutanese farmer winnows rice in the field after harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • A Bhutanese farmer winnows rice in the field after harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • Bhutanese farmers winnow rice in the field after harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • A Bhutanese farmer winnows rice in the field after harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • A Bhutanese farmer winnows rice in the field after harvesting in Gangthramo village, near Punakha, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • A Bhutanese farmer winnows rice in the field after harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • A typical Bhutanese hand painted decoration on a farmhouse wall in Gorgona village, Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) is one of the 'Zong Chusum' or 13 traditional arts and crafts of Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
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  • A typical Bhutanese hand painted decoration on a farmhouse wall in Gorgona village, Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) is one of the 'Zong Chusum' or 13 traditional arts and crafts of Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
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  • Bhutanese woman having a street haircut in the small town of Trashigang, Eastern Bhutan.
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  • 'Datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk for sale at the Sunday market in Paro, Western Bhutan. Paro's weekly market is a small traditional market and the place to purchase Bhutan's unique local products. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • 'Datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk for sale at the Sunday market in Paro, Western Bhutan. Paro's weekly market is a small traditional market and the place to purchase Bhutan's unique local products. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • A young Bhutanese woman sunbathing next to a pine needle stack in the Haa valley, Western Bhutan. Pine needles are collected from the forests and used as animal bedding by farmers in remote areas. Despite rapid urbanisation, the majority of people, 66% of all households, still live in rural Bhutan, most dependent on the cultivation of crops and livestock breeding.
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  • A farmer wearing a handwoven kira, the Bhutanese national dress, prepares rice for cooking outside her home in Richengang village near Wangdue, Western Bhutan. Despite rapid urbanisation, the majority of people, 66% of all households, still live in rural Bhutan, most dependent on the cultivation of crops and livestock breeding.
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  • Red curtains at a window in a traditional Bhutanese farmhouse in Punakha valley, Bhutan
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  • Traditional Bhutanese snacks including maize, popcorn and puffed rice served in bamboo baskets and offered to guests, Yangthang village, Haa valley, Western; Bhutan
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  • An elderly man wearing a 'gho' the traditional clothing for Bhutanese men outside his farmhouse in Yangthang village, Haa valley, Western Bhutan. The 'gho' is a long robe hoisted to knee length and held in place by a woven cloth belt called a 'kera'. According to tradition, men should carry a small knife called a 'dozum' at the waist.
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  • A Bhutanese man wearing a traditional 'gho' at an archery tournament, Thimphu, Western Bhutan. 'Datse' (archery) is Bhutan's national sport and is played wherever there is enough space and remains the favourite sport for all ages. There are archery tournaments held throughout the country. The targets are placed 140m apart. If the contestant hits his target, his team mates will perform a slow dance and sing his praises, while he slips a coloured scarf into his belt.
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  • A farmer wearing a handwoven kira, the Bhutanese national dress, dries rice outside her home in Richengang village near Wangdue, Western Bhutan. Despite rapid urbanisation, the majority of people, 66% of all households, still live in rural Bhutan, most dependent on the cultivation of crops and livestock breeding.
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  • Pots and pans in a typical Bhutanese farmhouse kitchen, Gyenshari village, Western Bhutan
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  • A woman wearing a kira, the Bhutanese national dress carries a large load of dried leaves to use as animal bedding, Daimji village, Western Bhutan. The kira is the national dress for women in Bhutan. It is an ankle-length dress consisting of a rectangular piece of woven fabric, wrapped and folded around the body and pinned at both shoulders, usually with silver brooches, and bound at the waist with a long belt. Women's hair is usually cut short. Despite rapid urbanisation, the majority of people, 66% of all households, still live in rural Bhutan, most dependent on the cultivation of crops and livestock breeding.
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  • Portait of a Bhutanese woman wearing a kira, the traditional dress outside her home in Yangthang village, Haa valley, Western Bhutan. The kira is the national dress for women in Bhutan. It is an ankle-length dress consisting of a rectangular piece of woven fabric, wrapped and folded around the body and pinned at both shoulders, usually with silver brooches, and bound at the waist with a long belt. Women's hair is usually cut short.
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  • A Bhutanese man wearing a traditional 'gho' at an archery tournament, Thimphu, Western Bhutan. 'Datse' (archery) is Bhutan's national sport and is played wherever there is enough space and remains the favourite sport for men of all ages. There are archery tournaments held throughout the country. The targets are placed 140m apart. If the contestant hits his target, his team mates will perform a slow dance and sing his praises, while he slips a coloured scarf into his belt.
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  • Bhutanese woman making tea in Radhi village, Eastern Bhutan
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  • Phublham making 'datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk in her farmhouse kitchen, Bayta village, Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Green chillies for sale along the roadside in rural Bhutan. Chillies are the main ingredient in the Bhutanese national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Green chillies for sale at Wangdue Phondrang, Bhutan. Chillies are the main ingredient in the Bhutanese national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Phublham making 'datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk in her farmhouse kitchen, Bayta village, Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Phublham making 'datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk in her farmhouse kitchen, Bayta village, Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs.  Unlike most Bhutanese women who wear their hair short, the Brokpa women keep their long hair tied up in plaits with colourful ribbons.
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  • Freshly harvested rice in the field in Chimi Lhakhang village, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • ‘Ola Chayto’, a local Bhutanese vegetable for sale at Nobding farmers market, Bhutan
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  • Phublham making 'datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk in her farmhouse kitchen, Bayta village, Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Phublham making 'datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk in her farmhouse kitchen, Bayta village, Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Boys wearing the traditional Bhutanese 'gho' watching television through the window of the village shop in Radhi, Eastern Bhutan
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  • Green chillies for sale at Wangdue Phondrang, Bhutan. Chillies are the main ingredient in the Bhutanese national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Namgay Pedon holding naturally dyed wild silk to be woven into a kira the Bhutanese women's traditional floor length dress, Rangjung village, Eastern Bhutan.
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  • A young Bhutanese man holds darts used for playing 'khuru' a darts game played by men on a field about 20m long with small wooden targets, Sopsokha village, Western Bhutan. The darts are usually homemade from a block of wood and a nail, with chicken feathers or plastic for flights.
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  • A farmhouse In Yangthang village in the Haa valley, Western Bhutan. A typical Bhutanese house is two storeys high with a large airy attic used for storage. In rural areas the ground floor is always used as a barn and the upper floor as the living quarters. In most houses, one elaborately decorated room called the 'choesum' serves as a chapel. In Western Bhutan the walls are usually made of compacted earth. Afterwards the walls are whitewashed and painted decorations added. Phallic decoration is believed to ward off evil spirits and encourage fertility.
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  • Beans and ‘ola chayto’ for sale at Wangdue Phodrang local produce market, Bhutan.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • Sonam Wangmo dyeing wild silk with indigo outside her home in Radhi, Eastern Bhutan. Radhi village is famous for fine raw silk and bura textiles made using traditional back-strap loom and natural dyes.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • Portrait of a Brokpa woman wearing her traditional clothing outside her home in the remote village of Merak in Eastern Bhutan. The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng are said to have migrated to Bhutan a few centuries ago from the Tshona region of Southern Tibet. Thriving on rearing yaks and sheep, the Brokpas have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs.
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  • A string of rock-hard locally produced 'chhugho' dried yak cheese for sale at a roadside stall in Western Bhutan.
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  • Women relaxing at Gasa tsachhu (hot springs) in Jigme Dorji National Park, Western Bhutan. At Gasa hot springs there are five pools with water temperature ranging from mild to extremely hot. During the winter months when farming work is done, families from all over Bhutan come here to relax in the restorative pools for many days.
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  • A khuru dart embedded in a small wooden target in a remote rural village in the Haa valley, Western Bhutan. Khuru is a darts game played by men on a field about 20m long with small wooden targets. The darts are usually homemade from a block of wood and a nail, with chicken feathers or plastic for flights.
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  • Families relaxing at Gasa tsachhu (hot springs) in Jigme Dorji National Park, Western Bhutan. At Gasa hot springs there are five pools with water temperature ranging from mild to extremely hot. During the winter months when farming work is done, families from all over Bhutan come here to relax in the restorative pools for many days.
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  • Families relaxing at Gasa tsachhu (hot springs) in Jigme Dorji National Park, Western Bhutan. At Gasa hot springs there are five pools with water temperature ranging from mild to extremely hot. During the winter months when farming work is done, families from all over Bhutan come here to relax in the restorative pools for many days.
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  • Families relaxing at Gasa tsachhu (hot springs) in Jigme Dorji National Park, Western Bhutan. At Gasa hot springs there are five pools with water temperature ranging from mild to extremely hot. During the winter months when farming work is done, families from all over Bhutan come here to relax in the restorative pools for many days.
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  • A chlld from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • Monks playing traditional musical instruments at the Black-necked Crane festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the Black-necked Crane festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight its significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A woman rests in the ricefield during harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • Children from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • The audience watching the performances at the Black-necked Crane festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the Black-necked Crane festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight its significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • Green vegetables for sale at the local produce market in Mekshina, Bhutan.
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  • Vegetables produce for sale in Nobding farmers market, Bhutan.
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  • Monks in the audience at the Black-necked Crane festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the Black-necked Crane festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight its significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • Dried tea leaves for making 'suja', salty yak butter tea, for sale at the Sunday produce market in Paro, Western Bhutan. Paro's weekly market is a small traditional market and the place to purchase Bhutan's unique local products.
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  • Portrait of a boy at Gasa tsachhu (hot springs) in Jigme Dorji National Park, Western Bhutan. At Gasa hot springs there are five pools with water temperature ranging from mild to extremely hot. During the winter months when farming work is done, families from all over Bhutan come here to relax in the restorative pools for many days.
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  • Local produce for sale in Nobding farmers market, Bhutan.
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  • A child from Bayta Primary School dressed as a crane before performing the Black-necked Crane dance ‘Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu’ at the Black-necked Crane Festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight the cranes significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • Namgay Pedon hand spinning wild silk using a drop spindle in Rangjung village, Eastern Bhutan. This area is famous for fine raw silk or bura textiles woven using natural dyes and a traditional back-strap loom.
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  • Arrows resting against a wall during an archery tournament in Thimphu, Western Bhutan. 'Datse' (archery) is Bhutan's national sport and is played wherever there is enough space and remains the favourite sport for men of all ages. There are archery tournaments held throughout the country. The targets are placed 140m apart. If the contestant hits his target, his team mates will perform a slow dance and sing his praises, while he slips a coloured scarf into his belt.
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  • Farmhouses and rice terraces in the remote mountain village of Gyenshari in Western Bhutan. Despite rapid urbanisation, the majority of people, 66% of all households, still live in rural Bhutan, most dependent on the cultivation of crops and livestock breeding.
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  • Freshly made butter on the kitchen floor of a Brokpa ethnic minority house in Thagthi, Eastern Bhutan. Rural Bhutanese farmers make butter and cheese partly for storage or as a preserved form of milk for self consumption, with any excess being sold for cash or traded with neighbouring villages for daily necessities.
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  • Bhutanese farmer, Namgay Zam holds a cow while it is being milked, Chubja, Bhutan.
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  • A young Layap woman from Laya spins sheep wool using a drop spindle called a Yoekpa, Punakha, Western Bhutan. The Layap are inhabitants of the northernmost region of Bhutan. Traditionally, their clothes are woven from yak hair and wool although the younger women often wear the kira, the Bhutanese national dress. They are a semi-nomadic tribe whose source of livelihood is dependent on yaks and sheep the products of which they barter with the people of Punakha for daily necessities. Given the geographic isolation of many of Bhutan's villages, there are 16 different dialects and 14 regional groups in the country. Many tribes have kept alive their distinct cultural identities through their dress, language and traditions over the years.
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  • A view of the small town of Paro on the banks of the Pa Chhu river from Rinchen Pung (Rinpung) Dzong in Western Bhutan. Paro town lies in the centre of the valley at an average elevation of 2880 m and was first formed in 1985 with one main street, lined with colourfully painted shops and restaurants. Recently new constructions in Bhutanese style have taken place at the back of the main street.
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  • A hand painted decoration on a traditional wooden house in Radhi village, Eastern Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
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  • Traditional Bhutanese dancing at the Black-necked Crane festival at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the Black-necked Crane festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight its significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A group of women harvest rice in one of the Bhutanese government’s fields which will be stored and later distributed to schools, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan.
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  • Smallholder/farmer Karma holds a bucket of milk after hand milking one of his 11 cows in the Tang Valley, Bumthang, Central Bhutan. Rural Bhutanese farmers make butter and cheese partly for storage or as a preserved form of milk for self consumption, with any excess being sold for cash.
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  • Smallholder/farmer Karma hand milking one of his 11 cows in the Tang Valley, Bumthang, Central Bhutan. Rural Bhutanese farmers make butter and cheese partly for storage or as a preserved form of milk for self consumption, with any excess being sold for cash.
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  • Portrait of smallholder/farmer Karma holding a bucket of milk after hand milking one of his 11 cows in the Tang Valley, Bumthang, Central Bhutan. Rural Bhutanese farmers make butter and cheese partly for storage or as a preserved form of milk for self consumption, with any excess being sold for cash.
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  • A Brokpa farmer shaping fresh cow's milk butter by hand, Thagthi village, Eastern Bhutan. Rural Bhutanese farmers make butter and cheese partly for storage or as a preserved form of milk for self consumption, with any excess being sold for cash or traded with neighbouring villages for daily necessities.
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  • A Brokpa woman making 'Datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk. Rural Bhutanese farmers make butter and cheese partly for storage or as a preserved form of milk for self consumption, with any excess being sold for cash or traded with neighbouring villages for daily necessities.
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  • Namgay Pedon weaving naturally dyed wild silk using a traditional back-strap floor loom in Rangjung village, Eastern Bhutan. She is weaving fabric to make a 'kira' the Bhutanese women's traditional floor length dress.
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  • A Brokpa farmer hand making fresh cow's milk butter by hand, Thagthi village, Eastern Bhutan. Rural Bhutanese farmers make butter and cheese partly for storage or as a preserved form of milk for self consumption, with any excess being sold for cash or traded with neighbouring villages for daily necessities.
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  • Freshly made butter on the kitchen floor of a Brokpa ethnic minority house in Thagthi, Eastern Bhutan. Rural Bhutanese farmers and herders make butter and cheese partly for storage or as a preserved form of milk for self consumption, with any excess being sold for cash or traded with neighbouring villages for daily necessities.
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  • A view of the small town of Paro on the banks of the Pa Chhu river from Rinchen Pung (Rinpung) Dzong in Western Bhutan. Paro town lies in the centre of the valley at an average elevation of 2880 m and was first formed in 1985 with one main street, lined with colourfully painted shops and restaurants. Recently new constructions in Bhutanese style have taken place at the back of the main street.
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  • Portrait of two Buddhist monks at Punakha Dzong (fortress), Western Bhutan. Traditionally, Bhutanese families would, if they were able, send one son to join a monastery. This was viewed as creating merit for the family and household and a blessing for the child. Often from poor families, once in the monastery, their daily lives revolve around learning to read and write. Punakha Dzong was the second dzong to be built in Bhutan and it served as the capital and seat of the government until 1955 when Thimphu became the captial of Bhutan.
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  • Bhutanese subsistence farmer, Kinley sells guava and amla fruit on the roadside in Bajo town, Wangdue Phodrang, Bhutan.
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  • Buddhist monks shaving their heads on the banks of the Mo Chhu (Mother river) in preparation for a ritual ceremony, Punakha Dzong, Western Bhutan. Traditionally, Bhutanese families would, if they were able, send one son to join a monastery. This was viewed as creating merit for the family and household and a blessing for the child. Often from poor families, once in the monastery, their daily lives revolve around learning to read and write.
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  • A Buddhist monk with a newly shaven head on the banks of the Mo Chhu (Mother river) in preparation for a ritual ceremony, Punakha Dzong, Western Bhutan. Traditionally, Bhutanese families would, if they were able, send one son to join a monastery. This was viewed as creating merit for the family and household and a blessing for the child. Often from poor families, once in the monastery, their daily lives revolve around learning to read and write.
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  • Buddhist monk shave their heads on the banks of the Mo Chhu (Mother river) in preparation for a ritual ceremony, Punakha Dzong, Western Bhutan. Traditionally, Bhutanese families would, if they were able, send one son to join a monastery. This was viewed as creating merit for the family and household and a blessing for the child. Often from poor families, once in the monastery, their daily lives revolve around learning to read and write.
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  • An elderly Bhutanese man standing on a road side looking down the beautiful Tang Valley, Bumthang, Central Bhutan.
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