You see we’ve bonded into quite a team! We made stepping-stones four times to get across swollen rivers and on only one occasion did anyone get wet feet. The problem was that stones lying around on the riverbank are mostly irregular in shape, so the “stepping-stones” are really piles of wobbly small rocks.
This was a typical settlement, part of which has been modernised. The number of derelict buildings behind housed people who eked out a living on the land in former times. With a view like this I'm sure they will eventually be restored as second homes
At the highest point of the walk was a former windmill that is now a Buddhist monastery. The flags are prayer flags written in an indecipherable script – presumably Tibetan? There was also a shrine where fruit offerings are left each day. We didn’t however see any monks, only a digger making a bigger accessible area around the fruit shrine. From the monastery, the rough path ran straight down steeply to the road where we had parked the cars.
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