We arrived at our first destination. WE explored around the first night, met some nationals, who invited us back to their house, and along the way they showed us the view of their city. It was seemingly uninteresting, when all of a sudden i looked above the clouds and there were HUGE, snow covered mountains in the distance.
It was amazing!!! You couldn't even see where the mountains met the ground. They were just a silouhette in sky. I had to photoshop some of the pictures so you can see the mountains better in the picture, that's why they're freaky colours!
The following day we decided to go see the fort before heading to a different place. My expectations were WAY low as far as this fort went. I was really expecting it to be a large pile of rocks that was, at one time a fort before it crumbled into a huge pile rocks. I was very surprised at what I was about to see. We arrived at the HUGE fort that reminded me of castles in Britain. A lot of it had be devestated by the 1905 earthquake, but the government has done a really good job of reconstructing and maintaining the grounds.
The fort has passed through many different hands from Tribals to Muslims, Sikhs, and finally the British. I don't know how much of the building was completed before the British gained control, but there was definitely a feel of British influence in some of the Architecture- not that I'm an expert or anything.
There was a small museum on the grounds that talked about some of the people that lived there over the years etc, and some of the languages found carved into stones in the area. Pretty interesting stuff!!! We walked around, took some more pictures of the magic mountains, that appear in the skyline from nowhere, and then headed out to the Dalai Lama's house. Not literally of course.
We arrived at our first destination. WE explored around the first night, met some nationals, who invited us back to their house, and along the way they showed us the view of their city. It was seemingly uninteresting, when all of a sudden i looked above the clouds and there were HUGE, snow covered mountains in the distance.
It was amazing!!! You couldn't even see where the mountains met the ground. They were just a silouhette in sky. I had to photoshop some of the pictures so you can see the mountains better in the picture, that's why they're freaky colours! 
The following day we decided to go see the fort before heading to a different place. My expectations were WAY low as far as this fort went. I was really expecting it to be a large pile of rocks that was, at one time a fort before it crumbled into a huge pile rocks. I was very surprised at what I was about to see. We arrived at the HUGE fort that reminded me of castles in Britain. A lot of it had be devestated by the 1905 earthquake, but the government has done a really good job of reconstructing and maintaining the grounds. 
The fort has passed through many different hands from Tribals to Muslims, Sikhs, and finally the British. I don't know how much of the building was completed before the British gained control, but there was definitely a feel of British influence in some of the Architecture- not that I'm an expert or anything. 
There was a small museum on the grounds that talked about some of the people that lived there over the years etc, and some of the languages found carved into stones in the area. Pretty interesting stuff!!! We walked around, took some more pictures of the magic mountains, that appear in the skyline from nowhere, and then headed out to the Dalai Lama's house. Not literally of course.
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Those floating mountains are amazing! I don't think I can really grasp how tall those things must be.
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