blazeofglory
03-12-2008, 05:53 AM
Abode is something that generates attachments and no matter where you are domiciled legitimately or you are a traveler your mind is nestled somewhere far off. This attachment is very powerful. I try to efface all my memories and try to be at one with the world, yet it is something intriguingly captivating and I can not help it. The hangovers of my yesteryears. I recently published an article, based on my experiences, I felt like sharing it with all here. I do not know whether it is right to share or not to share I simply followed the instincts.
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Off to exotics in Dolpa
Moments if you can spare in life from your daily hustle and bustle with hectic schedules, make a better choice to revel in a locale from a thousand pickings that will stage you through experiences out of the usual in life time. The uncommonness of it is professed in what it has in store galore. Your expedition ends up in a dreamscape where the heart will leap up and spirit upbeat. Gorgeously dreamy you will wind up with a new, animated spirit, full of life.
The question crops up: where is that Shangri-La every traveler is in perpetual quest. The end you may long to conclude your journey with is painfully hard to come by, looking at glitzy rolls spread to you at travel agencies or flipping through travel books. They equip you with logistics but the choice is exclusively yours for a right choice always springs from self initiatives. That Elysian realm is not that far and inaccessible. Outdo your reluctance to absorb a little hardship of traveling and get going, the journey will set you in a land of a thousand dreams. This is Dolpa, an idyllic travel destination in Nepal.
Curiosities enfold you: what Dolpa lays in store? A breath -taking spectacle of scenic beauties, the time-unfed rich tapestry of monastic life, preserved primitive life styles not worn out against the sands of time, unruffled by modernization and all that speak volumes of this exotic land. Nepal unleashed, the first and foremost manifestation that transfixes you is the lofty Himalayan variedness. Bound for Dolpa, stretched before you stand towering massifs, Kanjiroba, Dhaulagiri. Dolpa lies in their lap. Traveling to Dolpa is to wind through an unbeaten track that chains you to arrays of natural scenes and unlocks a vault of mysteries. The first thing that arrests your sight is the Shey Phoksundo Lake in turquoise blue shimmering amidst rock faces, at an elevation of 3600 meters from the sea level, the major idée-fixe of every traveler. The Shey Phoksundo national park abounds a fabulous surround. Nature is bountiful for Dolpa immeasurably. The national park is a sanctuary that nestles rare species endangered everywhere like snow leopards, musk deer, Tibetan wolves, blue sheep, Himalayan Thars, yaks and enshrines some unusual varieties of birds and mammals. Rich in vegetation varieties of pines and junipers teeming with multiform animal and bird species mark off this region. The 167 meters high Sulgad Fall is yet another addition to the bounties of this district that pours from a lake. There are cliffs, gorges, and rapids all adding and crowning Dolpa with the grandeurs unparalleled. This region is not only a conservancy of wild lives but also a vast sanctuary gardening rare floras, some are of immense medicinal values used by Aamchis, traditional healers.
Once you are there observing natural beauties, you can not settle down yourself without seeping into the fabrics of people and their culture. Culturally, or say religiously the majority are Buddhists or Bon –Po, a religious cult which is not circumscribed within Buddhism but mirrors Buddhist faiths considerably with a profusion of local fervors. Bordering with Tibet, Tibetan culture has made ingresses into Dolpa at different phases in history. Regional essences blended with imported elements through a process of acculturation and assimilation deepening its religiosity is what embodies Bon –Po faiths in spirit. People who crave for exclusive change to slough off the world of usualness and humdrum existence and seek for an otherworldly milieu, soaking with Bon – Po in a stream of their fabulous culture for a moment will transport them into a world of their dreams.
Understanding Dolpa demands of viewers a little more beforehand knowledge of facts and fables mirroring the insides of Dolpa. Exploring in, Monasteries come first and foremost. Monastic rules betoken all that Dolpa live by culturally and religiously and cast impacts on all their day to day affairs and mores. The Shey Phoksundo Lake or the Shey Phoksundo national park have derived their names after the 12th century Shey Monastery. Monastic cultures are embedded in the core of their hearts and are the life bloods that run thru their veins. All their daily chores, cultural activities, festivities reverberate something of monasticism. Culture survives here unabatedly. Primitives lived on here, for the tempest of modernity has not yet permeated this fabled land. Monastic ways of living are inherited through generations and they are sustained, nurtured and nursed; these legacies are now as vibrant and vivacious as they were centuries ago against the claws of time. Edifices worthy of mentioning and Dolpa glory in are: Hurikot Monastery, Rigmo Monastery. They survive enduring ravages of time. These monumental works of art Dolpa treasures are the sum and substance of its rich heritage. The Lamas of monasteries unroll to you Thankas, the traditional Tibetan painting works that gripe, mystify and immerse you in a world transcending spatiotemporal order. History unfolds episodes wherein pilgrims at times forgot to return once they set foot in here, for the majesty of monastery and the mystery of monastic cultures transmuted them. They went transfixed, amuck in a state of otherworldliness.
Making for Dolpa: If you are a traveler and with the amount of time at your disposal you are likely to take two types of courses to Dolpa: One, you trek along with a team of travelers in company with porters by road and then take a long distance foot path, observing the country side and the other, you take a flight.
Going by trek, you take a bus ride from Kathmandu to Pokhara then that goes up to Baglung which is the dead-end of the vehicle – passable track. Going en route from Baglung to Dolpa you will journey through Beni and Dhorpatan. Then you will camp northward to Tarakot, Do Tarap and you will trek on the Numla and Baga gorges and finally arriving at Ringbo you will land in Dolpa. These names will mean a lot to you once you go trekking.
Take a flight to Dolpa, it will appear as an outstretch of Kathmandu to you, from Kathmandu via Nepalgunj landing at the Juphal airstrip. The ninety minutes flight and you are in Dolpa.
Visit this fabled land, uncharted in travelogues, go griped and feel something in your heart of hearts.
.
************************************************** ********
Off to exotics in Dolpa
Moments if you can spare in life from your daily hustle and bustle with hectic schedules, make a better choice to revel in a locale from a thousand pickings that will stage you through experiences out of the usual in life time. The uncommonness of it is professed in what it has in store galore. Your expedition ends up in a dreamscape where the heart will leap up and spirit upbeat. Gorgeously dreamy you will wind up with a new, animated spirit, full of life.
The question crops up: where is that Shangri-La every traveler is in perpetual quest. The end you may long to conclude your journey with is painfully hard to come by, looking at glitzy rolls spread to you at travel agencies or flipping through travel books. They equip you with logistics but the choice is exclusively yours for a right choice always springs from self initiatives. That Elysian realm is not that far and inaccessible. Outdo your reluctance to absorb a little hardship of traveling and get going, the journey will set you in a land of a thousand dreams. This is Dolpa, an idyllic travel destination in Nepal.
Curiosities enfold you: what Dolpa lays in store? A breath -taking spectacle of scenic beauties, the time-unfed rich tapestry of monastic life, preserved primitive life styles not worn out against the sands of time, unruffled by modernization and all that speak volumes of this exotic land. Nepal unleashed, the first and foremost manifestation that transfixes you is the lofty Himalayan variedness. Bound for Dolpa, stretched before you stand towering massifs, Kanjiroba, Dhaulagiri. Dolpa lies in their lap. Traveling to Dolpa is to wind through an unbeaten track that chains you to arrays of natural scenes and unlocks a vault of mysteries. The first thing that arrests your sight is the Shey Phoksundo Lake in turquoise blue shimmering amidst rock faces, at an elevation of 3600 meters from the sea level, the major idée-fixe of every traveler. The Shey Phoksundo national park abounds a fabulous surround. Nature is bountiful for Dolpa immeasurably. The national park is a sanctuary that nestles rare species endangered everywhere like snow leopards, musk deer, Tibetan wolves, blue sheep, Himalayan Thars, yaks and enshrines some unusual varieties of birds and mammals. Rich in vegetation varieties of pines and junipers teeming with multiform animal and bird species mark off this region. The 167 meters high Sulgad Fall is yet another addition to the bounties of this district that pours from a lake. There are cliffs, gorges, and rapids all adding and crowning Dolpa with the grandeurs unparalleled. This region is not only a conservancy of wild lives but also a vast sanctuary gardening rare floras, some are of immense medicinal values used by Aamchis, traditional healers.
Once you are there observing natural beauties, you can not settle down yourself without seeping into the fabrics of people and their culture. Culturally, or say religiously the majority are Buddhists or Bon –Po, a religious cult which is not circumscribed within Buddhism but mirrors Buddhist faiths considerably with a profusion of local fervors. Bordering with Tibet, Tibetan culture has made ingresses into Dolpa at different phases in history. Regional essences blended with imported elements through a process of acculturation and assimilation deepening its religiosity is what embodies Bon –Po faiths in spirit. People who crave for exclusive change to slough off the world of usualness and humdrum existence and seek for an otherworldly milieu, soaking with Bon – Po in a stream of their fabulous culture for a moment will transport them into a world of their dreams.
Understanding Dolpa demands of viewers a little more beforehand knowledge of facts and fables mirroring the insides of Dolpa. Exploring in, Monasteries come first and foremost. Monastic rules betoken all that Dolpa live by culturally and religiously and cast impacts on all their day to day affairs and mores. The Shey Phoksundo Lake or the Shey Phoksundo national park have derived their names after the 12th century Shey Monastery. Monastic cultures are embedded in the core of their hearts and are the life bloods that run thru their veins. All their daily chores, cultural activities, festivities reverberate something of monasticism. Culture survives here unabatedly. Primitives lived on here, for the tempest of modernity has not yet permeated this fabled land. Monastic ways of living are inherited through generations and they are sustained, nurtured and nursed; these legacies are now as vibrant and vivacious as they were centuries ago against the claws of time. Edifices worthy of mentioning and Dolpa glory in are: Hurikot Monastery, Rigmo Monastery. They survive enduring ravages of time. These monumental works of art Dolpa treasures are the sum and substance of its rich heritage. The Lamas of monasteries unroll to you Thankas, the traditional Tibetan painting works that gripe, mystify and immerse you in a world transcending spatiotemporal order. History unfolds episodes wherein pilgrims at times forgot to return once they set foot in here, for the majesty of monastery and the mystery of monastic cultures transmuted them. They went transfixed, amuck in a state of otherworldliness.
Making for Dolpa: If you are a traveler and with the amount of time at your disposal you are likely to take two types of courses to Dolpa: One, you trek along with a team of travelers in company with porters by road and then take a long distance foot path, observing the country side and the other, you take a flight.
Going by trek, you take a bus ride from Kathmandu to Pokhara then that goes up to Baglung which is the dead-end of the vehicle – passable track. Going en route from Baglung to Dolpa you will journey through Beni and Dhorpatan. Then you will camp northward to Tarakot, Do Tarap and you will trek on the Numla and Baga gorges and finally arriving at Ringbo you will land in Dolpa. These names will mean a lot to you once you go trekking.
Take a flight to Dolpa, it will appear as an outstretch of Kathmandu to you, from Kathmandu via Nepalgunj landing at the Juphal airstrip. The ninety minutes flight and you are in Dolpa.
Visit this fabled land, uncharted in travelogues, go griped and feel something in your heart of hearts.
.