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Annapurna Circuit Trek

Annapurna Circuit Trekking

Duration: 14 Days | Activities: Trekking

The most popular trekking area in Nepal is situated north of Pokhara. This trek offers some of the most dramatic close-up views of the tallest mountain peaks in the world. The abrupt variations in altitude. ..

Culture

Buddhism is main religion since hundreds of years in Tibet, has unique form "Lamaism, Tibetan history, culture and religion are mixed together and infiltrated on every aspect of social life. Tibetan religious arts have a distinctive style with adoption of Indian and Chinese Buddhism. The Potala Palace is built on the top of a hill and penetrates its dome into the sky. It's the king of Tibetan architectural structures and it has wonderful sculptures, carvings, murals, "Thankas" and skilled butter sculptures, and vast accumulation of historical monuments which form a kind of religious art which is developed into a school of Tibetan tradition.

Festivals

Festivals in Tibet are in variety among which the grandest the Tibetan New Year followed by others such as "Wangkor" Festival and horse races. For the dead, sky burial, water burial, cremation and stupa burial are in practice but the sky burial is the most popular of them all.

Tibet festivals are held according to the Tibetan lunar calendar, which usually lags at least a month behind the West's Gregorian calendar. Following is a brief selection of Tibet's major festivals:

1. Lhosar Festival (New Year)

2.Lanten Festival

3.Monlam(Great prayer festival)

4.Sagadawa Festival

5. Worship of Buddha

6. Shotun Festival (Yoghurt festival)

7.Gyantse Horse Race

8.Death of Tsongkpa

9.Driving off Evil Spirits etc

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