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.