Part 69 - Paro: Masked dancers and visit to Tak Tsang; camp below Drugye monastery

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SUMMARY:
Photographs and notes on masked dancing at Paro, with an excursion up the Paro valley to the Tak Tsang (Tiger's Nest) monasteries in poor weather, and botanical observations. The party camped below Drugye monastery amid severe mosquitoes and flies, and notes include film dispatch and report dates.

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B.13. Paro.
B.14. Masked Dancers. (v poor light. f 1.8.)
yard for 1½ hours. Some were remarkably good, & on the whole the dancing was better than any of us had ever seen, the time being particularly good.

26th. Dates have been wrongly entered since coming here.
On 24th, we all rode up the Paro valley about 6 miles, then turned up a small nala on the left bank to the

B.14. contd. View of the Tak Tsang monastery & (Tiger's nest). Dancing at Paro.
Tak Tsang (tiger's nest) monasteries. They are fantastic places, a series of buildings on the very edge of a cliff & just under another cliff. There is a deep crack on the inner side of the rock on which the buildings stand, in this was supposed to be the tiger's lair. From the outside, these monasteries are very picturesque, but inside all are alike, & this was no exception. It was a pity the day was poor, with rain coming on as we got there, & no sun all day. Found a few interesting shrubs, including a yellow magnolia(?) (?Diospyros lotus L.) - a most beautiful blush pink creeper (Schizandra grandiflora H.f.) which we didn't know. In the evening we came down to the Paro valley & camped 1 mile

B.15. finished Dancing at Paro. Close up of Paro Penlop.
below Drugye monastery on R. bank. Near here there was a fine big St. John's wort growing. The camp was half a camp of tents, & half a young village built in a day for us of bamboo lattice work in log supports. The mosquitoes & flies were awful, & we spent a very disturbed night.
26th June
On 25th after breakfast we rode to the old Drugye

B. 4-15 sent from Paro on 28.6.33.
Report: - Very good indeed. 7/7/33. except 4.