This was a day when we left Paro, and travelled through Dochu La (La is a pass) to Thimphu, got some permits (which also allowed us to explore the main street of the little capital at leisure while we waited for the paperwork…Geetanjali got us special permission to go to Phobjikha, which is no longer allowed, to see the critically-endangered Black-necked Cranes)…..and on to Punakha.

Have just a few minutes of wifi at the hotel in Paro, but I’ve put up a few photographs of our flight into Paro from Kolkata,

On the advice of , I tried using CAPTCHA, and that seems to have brought out the spambots in a perfect frenzy. I am inundated with spam...I am at my wits' end about what to do. Repeated requests to the LJ admin hasn't worked, either. The day is not far off when I will have to leave LJ...what's the point of my going on posting stuff, and then deleting spam from my email inbox? I want to comment on others' posts, have conversations, debates and arguments...it' no fun standing on a wall and shouting into empty space!

I often post photographs in Facebook under the album, “Votzit”…and I ask friends to identify what’s been photographed. Since I loved the colours in my latest set, I am posting the set here, and I think you will not find it too difficult to find out the answer!

On my way to the bus terminus in Pune, I saw parts of this historic city that I’ve never seen before…