On my visits to Tibet I have unfortunately missed the Skeleton Dance at many festivals. So when I was in Tawang and heard that in the town of Bomdilla just one day’s drive away, there would be holding a festival which included this dance, I just left. Tawang was scenic with a famous monastery and Bomdilla is just a mountain top town built at a major road inter section with little to recommend it. However this annual festival drew around 5,000 pilgrims from the surrounding area and surprisingly just one foreigner, me. The full five days were fascinating, the crowd ultra friendly and the organiser was quick to take me under his wing, explain the dances and other performances, whilst ensuring I had a good vantage point from where to view the exploding cake. The Skeleton Dance did not disappoint, but when I got home, I decided that I preferred this photo of a character in one of the other religious dances.