Trip to Thoungphu Gonpa.

No sooner than I saw the stupas upload by one of my brother in facebook reminds me about the trip to Thoungphu Gonpa when I was in Nangkor Higher secondary School. 
It was in the year 2010 when I was in +2. Thoungphu Gonpa was about 7 hours walk from Nangkor School. We walk up early in the morning around 3:00am and started our journey.

We arrived at Tsebar one of the village on the way to our trip at 8:00am. We had breakfast at friend Sonam Tshering home. Sonam Tshering was also the student of NHSS. Recently he was graduated from Jigme Namgyel Polytechnic. I am thankful to my friend Sonam Tshering for helping hand on my way of trip.

We started our journey to destination and it was when we climbed uphill we came cross stupas which remind me when i saw in facebook and allow me to write today. 

Stimulation Stupa for this post

Finally we reached at Thoungphu Gonpa. We prostrate, offer prayers and Nyendar inside alter. Due to limited time we started our way back to school within short period of time. We have to attain evening study (as boarding school has system). We tried our best to attain evening study but we couldn’t. We were still at Khothakpa (Gypsum Mining area, Pema Gatshel) when evening study time was started. There was no way that we can take short cut. Ultimate option was to take, way along the road which is more than 2 hours walk. At the time we reached at school everything was over. Forgetting about the evening study even the night study (9-10 pm) was over. Walking about 16 hours to and fro was an exhausting trip. We went to bed without a dinner with tiring mind and body.

To my surprise, our name (those who went trip to Thoungphu Gonpa) was called by Teacher on duty in the morning assembly for not attaining evening study. We are brief for few second by Principal. He didn’t understand how much we suffered on the way to Gonpa and way back to school but he talk nonsense.

We planned our trip with good intention on auspicious day. It was satisfying trip when I think about it now. I am happy when I think about enjoyment we had on the way.