12/10/2024

Shangri La's huge prayer wheel - A pictorial essay

 

Looking down at Dukezong Ancient Town in the evening from a monastry on a hill top. This is how peaceful Shangri La is. A remote city in the Tibetan Autonomous region, away from the conflicts of the world. The people living their own way of life, at their own pace and comfort zone.  There is a 21m golden prayer wheel weighing 60,000kg, the biggest in the world in the monastry's compound. Click the pics to enlarge.
A pretty girl taking a selfie.

Pushing the prayer wheel, needing at least 20 people.
More tourists and local people pushing the wheel.
Girls in Tibetan tradition dresses pushing the prayer wheel.




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