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Mountain Monastery

3000 meters high up in the Himalayan Mountains sits the Tigers Nest Monastery (or Taktsang Palphug). Located near the city of Paro in the Kingdom of Bhutan, I hiked up into the mountains to find this sacred Buddhist temple complex perched on the edge of a cliff. I was also fortunate to enter inside the Monastery, which was originally built in 1692.

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Uploaded on October 20, 2011
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