23-24 October - Exploring Jakar

Away from the festivals, we explore the old town of Jakar (Chakar), Jakar Fortress and Khurjey Lakhang Monastery on a sunny afternoon.
The town of Chakar consists primarily of small wooden buildings built in a flood plain. The government plans to relocate the town into
concrete structures higher on the hill nearby, and has even leveled an area and installed street lights, but not much else...
Unfortunately, during the early morning hours of 26 October, about 1/4 of the old town burned to the ground.

Jakar	Jakar Dzong	Jakar Dzong	Jakar Dzong
Jakar Dzong	Jakar Dzong	Photographers at Jakar Dzong	Stairs at Jakar Dzong
Column detail	Jakar Dzong	Jakar Dzong	Jakar Dzong from the local high school
Jakar Dzong	Jakar Dzong	Clouds	Small shop (among those that burned down 2 nights later)
Jakar	Dried yak cheese	Local shop	Grocery store
They make Swiss cheese in the velley...	Roof - rocks and prayer flag	River by Jakar	Local bus
Prayer flags	Jakar	Along the main street	Making chili powder
for mobile phones...	Evening rush hour in Jakar	Mountains north of Jakar and the Chokhor Valley	Photographers
Mountains north of Jakar	Jakar river	Chilis	Pema and Pala in the restaurant at lunch (burned ...)
Stupas in the Chokhor Valley	Settlement in the Chokor Valley	Signs	Building stones
Wall surrounding Kurjey Lhakhang	Prayer flag	Kurjey Lhakhang	Stucco and Wood - Kurjey Lhakhang
Mandala showing the wheel of life	Astronomical mandala	Kurjey Lhakhang	Stupa
Kurjey Lhakhang	Stairs at Kurjey Lhakhang	Wall at Kurjey Lhakhang	Prayer stones
Marijuana to feed the pigs	Clouds	Kurjey Lhakhang	Kurjey Lhakhang
Prayer flags	Sunny afternoon near Jakar

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