
Holy tree
I’ve told you before about Olkhon Island and Lake Baikal and how it’s one of the 5 Shaman energy centers of the world. Well, this tree seemed to be quite holy for a lot of the people that were visiting Olkhon Island. While we were there, there was a group of about 150 Italians that came to spend a spiritual month on the island and almost every evening they would gather around this tree, chant, dance and tie prayer flags to it. Being not a very religious man, I just waited for them to finish their chanting and then took this photograph after the sun dipped behind the mountains on the horizon.