Posted by: Jed | April 28, 2009

Fire by the Nunnery

Another forest fire broke out or was set right above the nunnery and on the back side of the hill it’s on. Unfortunately, this video is terrible, like all my videos, but maybe you can get a sense of scale when I switch to night shot. I keep waiting for one to sweep up the monastery hill and level it. This one is the closest yet — I could hear the roar of trees being swallowed up.

I shot this from outside my room earlier tonight, actually. I just went out and noticed that it’s twice as big and moving down the hill. I can’t see the nunnery because it’s too dark and there’s smoke everywhere, but at this rate they’ll have to evacuate.


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  1. Hi. What happened? Is there much damage? Did the fires burn out? More news!

  2. Hi, Rungka. It was amazing. I woke up the next morning and raced out to see the damage. The hillside looked almost exactly the same as it had before the fire started. My fellow monastic visitors and I looked at each other, scratched our heads, and asked if we had dreamt the whole thing. One person even asked to see my video to confirm what we had seen the night before.

  3. Hi, good to hear that it did not turn into a bigger bushfire.


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