Jamal Garhi – A Monastery From the Air
There is something an aerial photo can capture that the perspective of a pilgrim or a visitor on the ground never can: the full architectural rationale of a monastic site, revealed in its entirety as a stone blueprint excavated from the hill slopes. That…
Bhamala – The cross-shaped stupa and the world’s oldest sleeping Buddha
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June 19, 2026
This UNESCO info sign, pictured before the exact site it details, gives us insight into a place unlike any other we’ve covered. We are no longer in Taxila itself, but in Haripur District, on a hill above the Haro River – Bhamala, where rests an utterly…