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Muktinath Helicopter Tour

Photographs from the road, the kora and the lake.

  • Pilgrims climbing the stone path to the Muktinath temple gate in Mustang, red-roofed buildings on the bare hillside and snow peaks above
  • The snow and rock peaks above the Muktinath valley in Mustang, scrub-covered slopes falling away beneath a bank of cloud
  • The main gate of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, its sign reading Shri Pashupatinath Mandir beneath a painted panel of Shiva holding his trident, with Ganesh painted to the left of the doorway
  • Priests in saffron holding up tiered brass oil lamps, every wick alight, during the evening aarti on the Bagmati at Pashupatinath
  • Dusk over the Bagmati at Pashupatinath, cremation fires burning on the ghats across the river and smoke drifting past the temple roofs
  • The gilded roof of the main Pashupatinath shrine at dusk, rising behind red-painted temple buildings where people stand along a balcony
  • Three sadhus in saffron and yellow robes with painted foreheads and long strings of beads, each raising a hand, standing by the river at Pashupatinath in the evening
  • A priest in saffron raising a smoking incense burner and ringing a bell during the evening aarti on the Bagmati at Pashupatinath
  • Incense sticks and a small fire of offerings burning on a stone incense stand at Pashupatinath, smoke curling in front of the temple wall
  • The Pashupatinath temple complex in Kathmandu, its tiered roofs and white shrines standing above the still green water of the Bagmati
  • The stone cremation ghats along the Bagmati river at Pashupatinath at first light, smoke rising past the temple roofs behind
  • The gilded tiered roof of the main Pashupatinath shrine above its white courtyard walls in Kathmandu
  • A pagoda shrine and painted gateway inside the Pashupatinath courtyard, its steps running down towards the river
  • A funeral pyre burning on a stone platform hung with marigold garlands beside the Bagmati at Pashupatinath, people sitting on the steps above