Searching For The Revelation of the Future

Looking for informations about Tibet I found this beautiful photo (in the bottom) and wanted to know more about this lake. Because it's not a common lake.
But we have to begin from the beginning describing it. :-)

Lhamo La-tso, Wikipedia tells, is situating not far from Lhasa at an altitude of about 5,300 m and covers an area of only about 2 square kilometres. I could not find something about the depth of the lake. Probably, nobody was so courageous to explore it.

Because this lake is Holy, Vision or Oracle lake. The most sacred in Tibet.
While gazing it, the monks discover the re-incarnation of Dalai Lama but there are many visitors that come there to try to see something in it's water. Visions or forecasts.

The Goddess on the picture here is Palden Lamo. She protects the lake, the Dalai Lama and Lhasa too. If you come to the lake with proper devoutness, is possible you will see your future in it's mirror.

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Bön Mask Dance Festival

I rarely write about Tibet in this blod and am happy to remember you great travel destinations I described in my previous posts. Valley of the Death in Tibet, had great success, and National Geographic About Shangri-La Treasures.

One of the very requested destinations in the places conected with Tibetans (not only in Tibet but in India and Nepal) are the buddhist monasteries. It would be maybe interesting to write a sequence of posts about them, but today I want to write not about the monastery (Menri Monastery, a Bön monastery first in Tibet, actually re-founded at Dolanji in Himachal Pradesh, India) but about the Mask Dance Festival you can visit there.


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If you are interested in Mask Dances, you have to know that there are different nations performing them. Corea, Japan, Thailand, Senegal, Guatemala and Tibet/China partecipate at Andong International Mask Dance Festival. I will write about these dances in my next posts.

What I did not understand -and maybe somebody knows to tell me- WHY these dancers have to use masks? To scare bad spirits?

An Other Pirate's Island

Our next stop in search of the places, where we could "meet" pirates, is Curaçao, a little island in the same region, Caribbean sea. We visited island Tortuga and Port Royal in my previous posts. Those were the "capitals". This island was not very good for life because there were problems with potable water. That is why Spanish did not want to leave here.

Next come Dutchmen on the island. And you can understand it, if you look once on the photo of Willemstad. Very happy colors, mmm?


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The island was rich in that period, and the pirates liked to visit it to change or sell their merchandise. By the way, guess, part of what country is this island today? If you do not remember, it is about 80 km distant from Venezuela. Here (Wikipedia)

The answer is "is one of five island territories of the Netherlands Antilles, and as such, is a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands." ;-)))

And here is a very interesting "tourist guide" for those who wants to go there the first time.