Travelling Palm

🌴Wanderlusting Photographer 📷
Explorer, Observer, Chocoholic.
Former child... Future dinosaur?

IG @ tamarachatterjee

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When I need to relax, calm down, settle into a reflective mental headspace I often think back to mountain tops and monasteries. Back to altitudes, heightened attitude, deep breaths and the small details.

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Each glass hub provided a new climate; with new foliage, new blooms and exotic scents. It was a lovely afternoon with an old dear friend, rediscovering old haunts.

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Entry into mammalia begins with human anatomy and ends in dramatic fashion with a blue whale carcass. My favorite section though is the glass ceiling gallery, and its skeleton collection of monstrous beasts and outrageous fossils.

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We ended our journey by making the pilgrimage into the absurd world of Kahlo and Diego.

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Looking back towards Seven Mile, a tiny hillside village with a little convenience shop and a beautiful row of prayer wheels made of large plastic rasgulla containers. The repose allowed us to reimagine the crazy mountain road we had just survived.
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To my surprise he had in his possession a golden mouse lemur. It was evident that his pet needed to be kept close, having use of one hand did not seem to deter him from playing in what appeared to be the season's championship match.

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The tiny museum, adjacent to the mosque holds a beautiful kufic script quran. Printed on skin, not paper it is one of the earliest replications of the original mushaf dating as far back as the 7th century.

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The view under the gaze of Guru Padmasambhava from his temple mound on Samdruptse Hill, was a sublime sight.

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This majestic wall of amplifying greenery was a spectacular sight to be had. I got close, stepped away, I perched up and crouched down to admire her volume and militance. Even in the harshest of conditions; mother nature has had the tenacity to stand up.

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It's interesting how a year later, the same image brings forth a completely different perspective... Somehow though looking through the archive it feels apocalyptic.

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Framed in his window; Kevin provided that last sovereign state of calm, that last meditative fresh breath before passing through the gates of Narnia into a glorious haze of chocolate. 
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Of course not everyone wants to be admired by the tourist gaze; here I admire the creativity...

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I watched almost ceremoniously as the local Veso fisherman paddled past each morning.

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Symbolic of Hanuman or not, the ghastly beasts were better left to look at from afar. 

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I stood in the middle of the mausoleum for a long time, taking in as many different turquoise shapes as possible.

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The scenic route allowed me to revisit some of the more memorable haunts, despite not repeating my ascent to the top of Pyramid of the Magician.

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I spent the majority of the day wandering in and out of some phenomenal spaces... Before getting back on and getting lost in the famed tangle of subway lines.

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The dreamy melodic notes; whispering sweet fantasies, an absurd opposite of the music's title reference... Sparta!!

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The repetitive geometric design carved deep into the earth's surface was a spectacular sight. Although the green hue of the diminutive rainwater, marked the miraculous site of a bygone era.

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As we moved closer to our destination, evidence of landslides and eroded earthly tumbles became more prominent.

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