Damn. Nepal has been on my bucket list for nearly 30 years, but it requires a sturdier set of ankles than I currently possess. Feeling deeply envious over here. Thanks for the gorgeous photos!
Each one of these is a gem Franklin. The differences in scale when seeing the human settlements below the mountain ranges is astounding... I also did not realize that yaks were quite so large (in my mind they were closer to goats, which is clearly not the case).
BTW: I'd posit that applying your in-born American competitiveness while playing Ludo might have been an unfair advantage.
Yaks come in a range of sizes from standard - somewhere between goat and buffalo - to these absolute units, which are bigger than horses. The whole story is that Arun got a call from a friend that the pictured yaks, who belong to someone but free range wherever they care to, had wandered into the edge of town. Arun said, you want to see some yaks? I answered, Arun, there are yaks all over town. He said, not like these. So we marched through town as the light was going to lay eyes on them. These were very special yaks. That white one on the right had gone into a guard position and started eyeballing us. When the black one on the left did likewise, we took it as a sign to get lost.
My unfair advantage was gaming in various contexts going back to my days as a D&D nerd.
Damn. Nepal has been on my bucket list for nearly 30 years, but it requires a sturdier set of ankles than I currently possess. Feeling deeply envious over here. Thanks for the gorgeous photos!
Each one of these is a gem Franklin. The differences in scale when seeing the human settlements below the mountain ranges is astounding... I also did not realize that yaks were quite so large (in my mind they were closer to goats, which is clearly not the case).
BTW: I'd posit that applying your in-born American competitiveness while playing Ludo might have been an unfair advantage.
Yaks come in a range of sizes from standard - somewhere between goat and buffalo - to these absolute units, which are bigger than horses. The whole story is that Arun got a call from a friend that the pictured yaks, who belong to someone but free range wherever they care to, had wandered into the edge of town. Arun said, you want to see some yaks? I answered, Arun, there are yaks all over town. He said, not like these. So we marched through town as the light was going to lay eyes on them. These were very special yaks. That white one on the right had gone into a guard position and started eyeballing us. When the black one on the left did likewise, we took it as a sign to get lost.
My unfair advantage was gaming in various contexts going back to my days as a D&D nerd.
Love it, and indeed my first thought of them was they reminded me of long-horn steer.
Beautiful Photos!!!!! What a great trip.
Intriguing perspective distortions in the close-up corners. 📷
Wonderful pictures!