Friedvoll
marschieren die Einen
Lebensgefährlich
die Forderung nach Dialog
Utopisch
der Gedanke an Gerechtigkeit
Gewaltvoll
die Antwort der Anderen.
untätig schaut die Welt zu
wie aus friedlichen Protesten
eine Demonstration von Gewalt wird.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 6, 2007
The best Shots - finally!
I'm glad I bought a good camera before I went to this trip. Even if you wouldn't need a expensive camerea over there, since you can hardly make bad shots!! Whereever you accidantly pull the trigger, afterwards it turns out to be a great photo!
Also I finally managed to select the best out of the 30 gigs of pictures I shot during my time in Bhutan and Tibet - and I tell you, it was the hell of a job!! They are all nice - But only a few are perfect.
And of course, anything less than perfect wouldn't make it onto this blog ;)
I Splitted the whole thing up into three parts, I'll show only one part here, to see all parts visit my Flicker page!!:
Enjoy, and don't hesitate to give me some feedback on my babies!!
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Some impressions from a Tsechu in Bhutan. This monks in their beautiful dresses and old, wooden, colorful masks are a perfect motive for every photographer!
A Tsechu is a religious festival, introduced by a big guru some hundert years ago. It lasts three days, and monks perform mask dances to teach the audience religious wisdoms.
View the other Pictures!
All pictures Copyright by Lukas Eggler. If anyone is interested to use one of them, contact me.
Also I finally managed to select the best out of the 30 gigs of pictures I shot during my time in Bhutan and Tibet - and I tell you, it was the hell of a job!! They are all nice - But only a few are perfect.
And of course, anything less than perfect wouldn't make it onto this blog ;)
I Splitted the whole thing up into three parts, I'll show only one part here, to see all parts visit my Flicker page!!:
Enjoy, and don't hesitate to give me some feedback on my babies!!
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Some impressions from a Tsechu in Bhutan. This monks in their beautiful dresses and old, wooden, colorful masks are a perfect motive for every photographer!
A Tsechu is a religious festival, introduced by a big guru some hundert years ago. It lasts three days, and monks perform mask dances to teach the audience religious wisdoms.
View the other Pictures!
All pictures Copyright by Lukas Eggler. If anyone is interested to use one of them, contact me.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Rollin' down the Friendship Highway...
Note: There are already millions of travel reports for the trip on the "Friendship Highway" from Lhasa to Kathmandu, so I will keep this one short (just some nice pics with comments).
We had a beautiful time in Lhasa, but our time / visa was running out. So we had to find a way out of the country. Since individual traveling is not very welcome by the Chinese government this is not as easy as it seems: You need to rent a vehicle via an official Tour Operator, with an official licenced tour-guide who can act as a kind of watchdog for dangerous international tourists.
We found 3 Canadian girls who were traveling the same way the same time, so we agreed to rent a Land-Crouiser to get to the border town (Zhangmo) with a quick stop at Everest Base camp in 4 days / 3 nights.
I’ve never seen more off-road trucks (Toyota Land-cruiser) than here in Tibet.
and after a while it was also clear why – I never drove that rought roads!!
our driver kept us entertained with a really nice tape – Only problem was, that that was his only on, and at the end of our tour we could sing along, even if the songs were in Tibetan!
shigatse was a beautiful town – but plan enough time for the monastery!
Landscape is just stunning!
But to get to the Everest Base camp we had to cross some rough terrain...
sometimes we couldnt even drive!!
Well, OK OK, maybe we drove most of it ;)
when we arrived we walked a little (really only a little!! On 5200m you get out of breath from turning around in the bed at night!!) into the valley, but the big mountain was in clouds...
But in the morning it cleared up…
And there he was! Everest! So close! You could almost touch him!
And after one more hard day of driving we finally reached the Border.
There we were seperating from the canadian girls again - after 4 days crowded together in a Landcruiser I think we all were happy. It wasnt bad, but sometimes traveling can get, hrmm, un-relaxed if you are stuck with people you do not really fit together with - especially if 7 people are driving in one land cruiser!
And what happened first thing we arrived back in Kathmandu? As soon as we stepped out of the car we saw Shelby walking along - a nice american lady we met and had a lot of fun with 2 weeks earlier. (We expected her to be already in Bangkok by the time we get back to Kathmandu!) I only say: Best "Truth or Dare" in ages!! And: Kathmandu Rooftops rock!!!! ;)
And I was also meeting a good old School Friend again - STRACKIIII!!!
Man, It was good meeting him again after such a long time!! Phillip surely chose one of the more fascinating ways after we finished school together 4 years ago!!
Well, and after this three days in Kathmandu my sister and me finally flew home. Thats it, I hope I will get into that corner of the world again, the people deeply fascinated me.
And I'm happy I finally finished my blog! In the near future you will also find the best pictures of my whole journey on this page, so stay updated! I'd love your comments on on my photos!
Lukas
We had a beautiful time in Lhasa, but our time / visa was running out. So we had to find a way out of the country. Since individual traveling is not very welcome by the Chinese government this is not as easy as it seems: You need to rent a vehicle via an official Tour Operator, with an official licenced tour-guide who can act as a kind of watchdog for dangerous international tourists.
We found 3 Canadian girls who were traveling the same way the same time, so we agreed to rent a Land-Crouiser to get to the border town (Zhangmo) with a quick stop at Everest Base camp in 4 days / 3 nights.I’ve never seen more off-road trucks (Toyota Land-cruiser) than here in Tibet.
and after a while it was also clear why – I never drove that rought roads!!
our driver kept us entertained with a really nice tape – Only problem was, that that was his only on, and at the end of our tour we could sing along, even if the songs were in Tibetan!
shigatse was a beautiful town – but plan enough time for the monastery!
Landscape is just stunning!
But to get to the Everest Base camp we had to cross some rough terrain...
sometimes we couldnt even drive!!
Well, OK OK, maybe we drove most of it ;)
when we arrived we walked a little (really only a little!! On 5200m you get out of breath from turning around in the bed at night!!) into the valley, but the big mountain was in clouds...
But in the morning it cleared up…
And there he was! Everest! So close! You could almost touch him!
And after one more hard day of driving we finally reached the Border.
There we were seperating from the canadian girls again - after 4 days crowded together in a Landcruiser I think we all were happy. It wasnt bad, but sometimes traveling can get, hrmm, un-relaxed if you are stuck with people you do not really fit together with - especially if 7 people are driving in one land cruiser!
And what happened first thing we arrived back in Kathmandu? As soon as we stepped out of the car we saw Shelby walking along - a nice american lady we met and had a lot of fun with 2 weeks earlier. (We expected her to be already in Bangkok by the time we get back to Kathmandu!) I only say: Best "Truth or Dare" in ages!! And: Kathmandu Rooftops rock!!!! ;)
And I was also meeting a good old School Friend again - STRACKIIII!!!
Man, It was good meeting him again after such a long time!! Phillip surely chose one of the more fascinating ways after we finished school together 4 years ago!!
Well, and after this three days in Kathmandu my sister and me finally flew home. Thats it, I hope I will get into that corner of the world again, the people deeply fascinated me.
And I'm happy I finally finished my blog! In the near future you will also find the best pictures of my whole journey on this page, so stay updated! I'd love your comments on on my photos!
Lukas
Tidrum Nunnery Hot Springs
Hello, hello! It took some time, I know, but you finally get a new entry!
I won't bore you with long monologues this time (you got your sermon already the last time ;) but rather give you some impressions of a really impressive country, in Film and Word!
Well, what do two austrians from the alps do when visit Tibet? Right, look for more mountains!! And so did we!!
"We" means my sister and me of course, and my friend Walter from Burgenland and his Girlfriend Ana from Spain - both of them are working in Tibet for a year. It seems that there are easier things to do in life than running an NGO in China, especially Tibet, but this is another Story (which I promised to spare you this time :)
They took us to a place which felt completly like Home!
The Mountains looked the same...
... Marmots (even if I never heard one whistling!)
... Gemsen ("Mountain Deer" in good old english...) ...
... one could take Yaks for really really ugly cows...
... with a little phantasy even a monastery looks like an Alp-Huette!!
But the only thing that did not fit AT ALL, and what really made it clear to us that we are not at home were millions of EDELWEISS!!
A bit crazy that Austrians have to fly to Tibet to see their first Edelweiss, isnt it?? ;)
Well, we had a beautiful time there in the tidrum-Nunnery - Where, by the way, you can have the stunning experience to have a bath in the natural Hot Springs - together with a Busload of Tibetan Monks (who seem to stop washing themselfs already two weeks before they go there!! ;)
This would also be one of my TRAVEL TIPS:
Tidrum Nunnery is a nice place - not the Nunnery itself, but the surroundings! Get a Tent and walk a couple of hours up the steep gorge (There are two gorges - take the left one!) until you reach the little monastery you see on the picture. It must be bautiful to camp up there (I think they will let you stay there if you ask the caretaker), but definetly much nicer than staying in the accomodations provided at the Hot Springs. Its a quite dirty, yak-butter-smelling place there, its better to camp on you own. And dont miss out a bath in the hot springs - its still a natural stone hotspring (not a big concrete tub) and its visited mostly by locals. You wont find many tourists there.
I won't bore you with long monologues this time (you got your sermon already the last time ;) but rather give you some impressions of a really impressive country, in Film and Word!
Well, what do two austrians from the alps do when visit Tibet? Right, look for more mountains!! And so did we!!
"We" means my sister and me of course, and my friend Walter from Burgenland and his Girlfriend Ana from Spain - both of them are working in Tibet for a year. It seems that there are easier things to do in life than running an NGO in China, especially Tibet, but this is another Story (which I promised to spare you this time :)They took us to a place which felt completly like Home!
The Mountains looked the same...
... Marmots (even if I never heard one whistling!)
... Gemsen ("Mountain Deer" in good old english...) ...
... one could take Yaks for really really ugly cows...
... with a little phantasy even a monastery looks like an Alp-Huette!!
But the only thing that did not fit AT ALL, and what really made it clear to us that we are not at home were millions of EDELWEISS!!
A bit crazy that Austrians have to fly to Tibet to see their first Edelweiss, isnt it?? ;)Well, we had a beautiful time there in the tidrum-Nunnery - Where, by the way, you can have the stunning experience to have a bath in the natural Hot Springs - together with a Busload of Tibetan Monks (who seem to stop washing themselfs already two weeks before they go there!! ;)
This would also be one of my TRAVEL TIPS:
Tidrum Nunnery is a nice place - not the Nunnery itself, but the surroundings! Get a Tent and walk a couple of hours up the steep gorge (There are two gorges - take the left one!) until you reach the little monastery you see on the picture. It must be bautiful to camp up there (I think they will let you stay there if you ask the caretaker), but definetly much nicer than staying in the accomodations provided at the Hot Springs. Its a quite dirty, yak-butter-smelling place there, its better to camp on you own. And dont miss out a bath in the hot springs - its still a natural stone hotspring (not a big concrete tub) and its visited mostly by locals. You wont find many tourists there.
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