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The Travel Photographer | Once Upon a Time in Langtang Valley | Nepal
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | Photograph of Me at Langtang Valley | Langtang National Park | Nepal “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain – I travel a lot and as a photographer, even though I took thousand of photos from my trip, very few of them have “my picture”, most of the times, it is about other people pictures, a stranger that I met along the way or just simple a…
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Traveling | A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Step
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | A Photograph of Me (The Author) Trekking The Langtang Valley Trek Towards Kyanjin Gompa | Langtang | Nepal With beauty before me, may I walk With beauty behind me, may I walk With beauty above me, may I walk With beauty below me, may I walk With beauty all around me, may I walk Wandering on the trail of beauty, may I walk – Navajo – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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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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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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Postcard From Himalaya | Langtang National Park | Nepal
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | Photograph of Me Taken by Ahmad Shukri in Langtang National Park | Nepal © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Langtang National Park | Nepal Himalaya The lighting was so beautiful on that day, even though our journey is still few hours away to reach Potala Hotel in Thangshyap from Kyanjin Gompa, I couldn’t resist to slow down and to “Smell the roses” and off course took some pictures along the way. I called my friend Ahmad Shukri to slow down and took a picture of me and I took a picture of him knowing that we can’t be sure whether we will ever walk this trek…