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The Uma Paro Hotel is a unique 29-room hotel offering five-star comfort in the hearth of amazing Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Situated in the beautiful Paro Valley, set into 38 acres of wooded hilltop overlooking a valley of green trees – the hotel is in harmony with the nature around. The Uma Paro Hotel is an amazing destination where you can enjoy hot stone baths and deep tissue massages in between walks to ease your aching muscles.
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This is the south-western coast of Sri Lanka (26th December 2004). In this picture we can see the ocean rapidly retreats 400 metres,  just 5 minutes prior to the arrival of a devastating tsunami.
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Taktshang, also called the Tiger’s Nest monastery is in the middle of the Bhutanese mountains, several hours outside of Paro (the only city with an airport). Taktshang is the most famous of monasteries in Bhutan. It hangs on a cliff at 3,120 metres (10,200 feet), some 700 meters (2,300 feet) above the bottom of Paro valley. A place of pilgrimage for Buddhists.
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Bhutan is a marvellous Himalayan area.The region is landlocked and surrounded by mountains, river and forest; to the south fronter lies India, with Tibet to the north. Bhutan topography features pine-clad valleys, terraced hills and snow-tipped mountains. All the villages and towns are well preserved and the entire nation is Buddhist.
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Potala Palace located at Lhasa is one of the most massive palace on the Earth. Now a museum it was once the winter religious and political seat of Tibet under the leadership of the Dalai Lama.

Built at an altitude of 3,700 m, on the side of Marpo Ri hill, the Red Mountain in the center of Lhasa Valley, Potala Palace, with its vast inward-sloping walls broken only in the upper parts by straight rows of many windows, and its flat roofs at various levels, is not unlike a fortress in appearance. At the south base of the rock is a large space enclosed by walls and gates, with great porticos on the inner side. A series of tolerably easy staircases, broken by intervals of gentle ascent, leads to the summit of the rock. The whole width of this is occupied by the palace.

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