Monday, January 21, 2008

Buddha Mahotsava Festival, Tawang



Straight from the monk procession down to the festival grounds. This is a picture of Dave sitting in the tourist section, a reluctant VIP.

This is the rest of the audience (Eventually someone realized no more tourists were coming, and let everyone have seats).



And Tawang just got stranger and stranger. This was a "Tribal Fashion Show" of Arunachal Pradesh tribes. Animal pelts, pumping euro-techno, flashbulbs everywhere. We decided that owning fancy cameras qualified us for the press section. We could only wonder if tomorrow night's "English Hip-Hop from Mizoram" could be more bizarre. It was.

Michael Sela, Mizoram's answer to Akon, Sean Kingston, etc.

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