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Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time at Swayambhunath Stupa | Kathmandu Valley | Nepal
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | Swayambhunath Stupa | Monkey Temple | Kathmandu Valley | Nepal The Swayambhunath Stupa is one of the crowning glories of Kathmandu Valley architecture. The entire structure of the stupa is symbolic, the white dome represents the earth, while the 13-tiered, beehive like structure at the top symbolises the 13 stages that humans must passthrough to achieve nirvana. The site has two access points: a long stairway, claimed to have 365 steps, leading directly to the main platform of the temple, which is from the top of the hill to the east; and a car road around the hill from the south leading…
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Travel Photography | Monk With Prayer Wheels | Kathmandu | Nepal
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Monk With Prayer Wheels | Kathmandu Nepal A monk and prayer wheels, a photograph taken at Boudhanath Stupa, Asia’s largest stupa. We visited this place just few minutes after we came back from Langtang, leave our backpacks to at hotel room, have some lunch and head to Boudhanath Stupa by taxi which cost us Rs300 for one way journey which took about 30 minutes to get here. Foreigners have to pay Rs150 for entry fees, and in term of photographic opportunity, it offers a lot, provided that you spent few hours here or take one whole day to visit this magnificent stupa. The photograph above were taken…
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Once Upon a Time in The Himalaya | Langtang National Park | Nepal
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Once Upon a Time in The Himalaya | Langtang National Park “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than…
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Trekking In The Nepal Himalaya | Langtang Valley Trek | Documents and Fees
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Nepal Tourism Board | Tourist Service Center | Kathmandu | Nepal © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Entry Permits (Inside the Passport) | TIMS Card (Trekking Information Management System) I just wanted to share with you some basic information regarding some documents that you must have before you start your trekking in Nepal. All trekker’s are required to obtained Trekking Management Information System TIMS card, you can get it through your trekking agency or just do it yourself like what we do here. If you wanted to it by yourself, just head to Nepal Tourist Service Center at Bhrikuti Mandap in Kathmandu. Better use taxi or…
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Adventure Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time in Himalaya | Langtang National Park | Nepal
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Photograph of Me by Ahmad Shukri | Somewhere in Langtang Valley | Nepal “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” – Ansel Adams – “I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.” – Harry Callahan – “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed, and is, thereby, a true manifestation of what one feels about life in its…