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Subject: [Leica] Paro Airport landing Bhutan
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:24:45 -0600
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Thank you for this background Howard.
Adds even more to the images of the place.

Looking forward to "more."

a note off the iPad, George

On Dec 2, 2013, at 6:54 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi George,
> Thank you for looking and commenting. Basis my interaction with the 
> Bhutanese I believe the world would be a happier and less war like place 
> if there were more Buddhists in charge. Bhutan provides free medical care 
> and education to high school graduation for everyone. If the services are 
> not available in the kingdom patients are set to India and after 
> graduating from high school the brightest receive full scholarships to go 
> to university. The level of English is astonishing. The present king was 
> educated at Oxford and Harvard and is very green and advised by his father 
> who abdicated in favour of his son. All these services are paid for by 
> high value low volume tourism and the sale of hydro electricity to India.
> More on this later.
> Howard


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