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Nepal

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Prayer Flags for Peace

Crystal Stafford, prayer flags, peace, Nepal

I don’t think the person who hung these prayer flags up in this remote region of Nepal meant to form a peace sign, but I was lucky enough to stumble upon it and see it this way. Magic 299/365, Prayer Flags for Peace, Nepal, October 2010…

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Crystal Stafford, Mountain Terraces in Nepal
Travel

Mountain Terraces in Nepal

And I only had my point and shoot. What a dummy. I packed my DSLR deep into my hiking back pack because I didn’t want to…

Crystal Stafford, Nepal
Magic

Misty Shaman

We had just arrived at this teahouse after a long day’s hike up and up and up on our way to Bigu Monastery in Nepal. We…

Crystal Stafford, Bigu, Nepal
Landscapes Travel

My Time in the Clouds

I spent two weeks teaching English to young nuns at a Tibetan Monastery in Nepal. We hiked for three days straight up the foothills of the…

Animals

The Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros

It was surreal seeing these lumbering giants up close and personal at Chitwan National Park. I only ever saw one rhino and her cub while on…

Bigu Monastery, Nepal
Travel

Young Nun

I took this photo while volunteering at a Tibetan monastery in Nepal near the border of Tibet. This is one of the young nuns that I…

Elephants, Nepal
Animals Travel

Maya the Elephant

One of my favorite experiences in Nepal was meeting this elephant, Maya, at Chitwan National Park. She was such a sweet-tempered animal. She belonged to the…

Crystal Stafford, Kathmandu, Nepal
Magic Travel

The Mother-load

Hol-y shit. I just found the mother-load. I found an entire hard drive full of photos that I thought I had lost. My first attempts at…