Pohbjikha

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Day spent driving on the scary road to the valley of black neck cranes, where we’ll spend two nights. Nothing to report other than being jostled around endlessly in the bus. My neck hurts. We did see yacks on the way here: they are coming down from the high pastures apparently. Funky animals.
 
   
The black neck cranes are an endangered species (a little over 300 of them remain) and the Phobjikha valley (@  2,900m) is their home for the winter. They normally migrate here from Tibet at about this time of the year, but their arrival is now getting later and later due to, I’m told, global warming conditions. The one featured here is a juvenile whose wing got damaged in an animal attack.  It will remain caged -- probably forever...