The top photo is taken in Pokhara, Nepal. The mountain likely is at sunrise because we are looking to the east. I believe it is called "machu puchure" which means "Fishtail".
The next photo was taken likely in January in the afternoon of the Taj Mahal. It was open to the public if you bought tickets to go in then I believe so we went inside then with my older children who are now 43 to 46 years old. My family were in India and Nepal and Thailand and Japan from December 11th 1985 until about April of 1986. We saw the Lingham and the Yoni inside too. If you wanted to build something like this I'm not sure it would be possible because it would be billions and billions of dollars to replace something like this now in human labor alone. If you look just at the carved marble lattice and imagine how hard this would be to make without cracking or breaking it in the making or installing it it is just beyond belief.
We spent about a week or more in Thailand snorkeling at Koi Samed Island but once we had met our friend a Tibetan Lama in Bodhgaya that we had earlier met in Santa Cruz, California we traveled with him and his Darjeeling translator to Dharamshala where the Dalai Lama lives and to Rewalsar (called Tsopema) in Tibetan.
On our way from Bodhgaya where we received the Kalachakra Tantra from the Dalai Lama along with 500,000 people from all over the world then, we traveled by train and bus to Varanasi, To New Delhi and then to Dharamshala and on the way we visited the Burning Ghat in Varanasi and Sarnath where Buddha taught the first Brahmin priests then the Buddhist Dharma over 2500 years ago now. And then we went to the Taj Mahal which is in Agra not too far from New Delhi. After New Delhi we went to Dharamshala by Train and bus and spent around a month there at high altitude which is between 5000 and 6000 feet in
The Pokhara mountain is 26,000 feet in altitude by the way so it is very impressive
altitude in the Himalayan foothills.
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