This short video is taken at Wang De Tse Monastery, overlooking Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan. The prayer flags blow positive aspirations and prayers to all sentient beings in the ten directions. The iron bridge at Tachu Gang, Bhutan was built in the 15th Century by Tangton Gyalpo, a great Buddhist master. The iron rings [...]
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This is a video taken at the Great White Stupa of Boudhanath, at Katmandu, Nepal. The stupa is about 1500 years old, and forms the center of the town which has been built up around it. Twice a day, at sunrise and sunset, the whole town converge on the stupa to do circumambulation, while they [...]
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Bhutan is a remarkable place – the sole remaining Buddhist kingdom left on the planet. It is a post-feudal society that had its first car in 1974 and cell phones for only ten years. With a population of only 700,000 and a size relative to Indiana, the country is mostly agricultural, unchanged over the centuries. [...]
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Please enjoy some of the photos taken by our travelers, ranging from the profound to the profane. Local Nepali with Britney tee shirt Happy travelers
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October 18 We all know the story. Raised in insular luxury, Prince Siddhartha began his spiritual transformation by leaving the palace to solve the riddle of old age, sickness and death. He renounced sensual pleasures, became an ascetic, and ate so little that his bones protruded. Finding no answer that way, he took nourishment, sat [...]
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They could be mistaken for sisters. Or intergenerational buddies. But Jody, 41, and Jessica, 17, are Drala’s mother-and-daughter team from Whistler, Canada. And they now find themselves sharing a transformational odyssey. Jody decided to take Jessica and her two other children out of school, and live in Australia for the year. “I was very excited to come [...]
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Between discussion/meditation sessions, our group visited Bhaktapur, one of the three former kingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley. Before leaving in our minivan, we received a lecture on the modern politics (hopelessly deadlocked), history (rich) and biodiversity (even richer) of Nepal from our tour guide, Kiran—a Newar, an indigenous tribe and one of the 60 ethnic [...]
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Sunday, October 16 What is happiness, after all? Good question, vital question—and the question that Choepal, our teacher from Austria, used to inspire our discussions during this, Day Two, of the Drala experience. Many of us were still coming off of yesterday’s immersion into the intense sensory experience of Kathmandu. Some were also emerging from [...]
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Friday, October 15 The sun was setting on a balmy Kathmandu day and the all-seeing eyes of the illuminated Boudhanath stupa gazed down on us from a distance. Out on the patio of the Hyatt, 10 “transformational travelers” gathered for wine and chit-chat. The first official tour of Drala Adventures had begun. The last of [...]
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Welcome to the Drala Adventures blog. Please read on for stories and photos of all kinds about our October 2010 trip to Nepal and Bhutan!
Drala Adventures is a luxury travel company that provides guided tours of the exotic Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. This enlightening experience combines culture, education, and luxury for a transformational and life-changing adventure. Traveling through Nepal is both an adventure and a spiritual journey that includes visits to Buddhist monuments, monasteries, sacred temples, and UNESCO world-heritage sites in the Kathmandu Valley. Enjoy this unique combination of luxurious vacation and transformational travel with Drala Adventures.
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