Trekking Nepal

09/02/2020

Hem, would you share something new with us from Nepal, please? Would be lovely to get inspired again.

03/07/2017

One man from the Kulung culture harvests psychotropic honey that is guarded by capricious spirits and the world’s largest honeybees.

15/11/2016

30/08/2016

21/08/2016

घट्यो बत्ति जाने समय
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नयाँ तालिका अनुसार श्रावण २७ , २०७३ बिहिबार देखि लागु हुने गरि अब हप्तामा साढे ४८ घण्टा लोडसेडिङ हुनेछ । अबदेखि एक दिन ६ घण्टा, तीन दिन साढे ६ घण्टा, दुई दिन ८ घण्टा र एक दिन ७ घण्टा लोडसेडिङ हुने नेपाल विद्युत प्रधिकरणले जनाएको छ ।

21/08/2016

British Library, documenting music in Nepal...

21/08/2016

Janai Purnima :)
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is observed in the month of Shrawan. It is called Rakshya Bandhan as this festival observes the bond of purity and security. This festival is celebrated by Hindus all over the world.
Janai Purnima is Sacred Thread Festival. On this day, Hindu men, especially the Brahmins and Chettris perform their annual change of Janai and all who celebrates this festival put a scared thread around their wrist.

21/08/2016

G*ijatra festival in 1969 | A child dressed as a 'cow' led by the hand by an adult |
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G*i is cow and Jatra is Procession (Festival).

G*i Jatra festival, the procession of cows, generally falls in the month of Bhadra, which correspond to English calendar months of August/September.

The festival of cows is one of the most popular festivals in Nepal. It is said people in ancient time started worshiping Yamaraj,"the god of death" on this day.

However, the modern form of celebration of G*i Jatra came into existence in the medieval period of Nepal during the reign of Malla Kings. The present form of G*i Jatra with humorous acts, parody, comedy and was started by then King of Kathmandu Pratap Malla. He made Rani Pokhari (Pond) in the heart of Kathmandu and build a temple in the middle of the same pond.

Traditionally every family who had death in the family during the preceding year must participate in a procession through the streets of Kathmandu leading a cow.

If a cow is unavailable then a young kids dressed as cow is considered a fair substitute. However, there started tradition of leading a cow with kids in funny costumes.

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: PC Nepal Volunteer Jim Colmen's photograph :)
of Doug Hall
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Pratap Malla, lost his very young son. His wife, the queen was in great misery. The king was very disappointed to see the condition of his queen. King after millions try could not make queen smile. Pratap announced that anyone who could make the queen laugh would be rewarded adequately.

Pratap Malla asked to bring the cow procession before the sad queen. Then people tried their best with different costumes and humorous acts. The dance and procession finally gave queen smile on her face. The smile at the moment was temporary but the procession gave queen a big relief. She knew that there are several death in the city during the period and she is not alone. Death is the natural phenomenon and no one has control on it.

Hence, from the day King Pratap Malla started the tradition of cow procession with boys with different funny make ups in funny costumes. The boys even put tails and make up like monkeys and Hunuman walk though the city road to show people that the death is the truth in the life and every one has to face it one day. The G*i Jatra tradition slowly developed into doing humorous acts including jokes, satires, mockery and lampoon in the G*i Jatra days.

After the cow procession is over, in the afternoon, everyone takes part in another tradition in which the participants dress up and wear masks. There also people enjoy the moments with songs, jokes, mockery and humors until late evening.

G*i Jatra is a festival which enables people to accept the reality of death and to prepare oneself for the life after death. It heals the grief and sorrow, at least a little, when people see the cow possession and realize people die, and we are not alone in the country who lost our loved ones.

Modern Day G*i Jatra
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Modern day G*i Jatra added varoius flovors to the festival in consistence with traditional values, Pratap Malla had established.

In the past when there was Shah's regime, people were not allowed to speak openly about the political system and the leaders there in.

G*i Jatra was regarded as the day when people are given such liberty to talk, point and satire the system, govenment and the leaders.

Still various comedy shows, acts and dramas are organized in different places including televisions and radios. Special edition of news papers are also published on this day with different cartoons and comedy articles.

21/08/2016

Patan celebrates Matya festival
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Matya, the jovial festival of light, was celebrated here today by taking out a procession that visited many Buddhist temples and stupas in Lalitpur. The procession was headed by Buddhist priests. Bands of traditional musicians gathered at the Durbar Square and paraded around Patan. Thousands took part in the march and lighted candles and offered coins in more than 2,000 Buddhist temples and stupas across Patan.

14/05/2016

Welcome to Everest Solukhumbu. Nepal.

15/04/2016

I had no idea. I'm starting THIS tomorrow

01/03/2016

Who is interested to get to know 8-thousanders in the world? There are 14 mountains .

The eight-thousanders are the 14 independent mountains on Earth that are more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) high above sea level. All eight-thousanders are located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia. They are the mountains whose summits are in the death zone.

1) Mt. Everest 8848 mt. h
2) Mt. K-2 8611 mt. h
3) Mt . Kanchanjanga 8586 mt. h
4) Mt. Lhotse 8516 mt. h
5) Mt. Makalu 8463 mt. h
6) Mt. Cho-oyu 8201mt. h
7) Mt. Dhaulagiri 8167 mt. h
8) Mt. Manaslu 8163 mt. h
9) Mt. Nanga parbat 8125 mt. h
10) Mt. Annapura (1) 8092 mt. h
11) Mt. G-1 8065 mt. h
12)Mt. Broad peak 8047 mt. h
13) Mt. Shisapangma 8027 mt. h
14) Mt. G-2 8035 mt. h

06/12/2015

„Mały Tybet” został zrealizowany w sierpniu i we wrześniu 2013 r w Ladakhu. Realizację poprzedziły trzy lata dokumentacji przeprowadzonej przez Alfreda Sosgórnika w klasztorach Ladakhu, Zanskaru i Spiti.

02/12/2015

Road-building Nepali style!

10/10/2015

Does a low-altitude Himalayan hike that includes gin and tonics and nights in comfortable lodges offer the same rewards as a more challenging journey?

01/10/2015

11/09/2015

Hiking this challenging trail around Mt Kanchenjunga yields rewards that more popular routes don’t, including stays in traditional teahouses that...

28/07/2015

শেষ পর্যন্ত লিফট পেল এই সাদা ভদ্র লোক ।

13/07/2015

13/04/2015

Bhaktapur Durbar Square in1901 AD.
विक्रम संवत् १९५८ सालमा खिचिएको भक्तपुर दरबार स्क्वायरको तस्विर ।

Picture Courtesy: Awadhesh Kumar Das
All rights: Himalayan Bank Limited, Nepal .

23/02/2015

Tengboche Monastry on the gateway to Everest Base Camp.

Tengboche Monastery (or Thyangboche Monastery), also known as Dawa Choling Gompa, in the Tengboche village in Khumjung in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Sherpa community. Situated at 3,867 metres (12,687 ft), the monastery is the largest gompa in the Khumbu region of Nepal.[1] It was built in 1916 by Lama Gulu with strong links to its mother monastery known as the Rongbuk Monastery in Tibet. In 1934, it was destroyed by an earthquake and was subsequently rebuilt. In 1989, it was destroyed for a second time by a fire and then rebuilt with the help of volunteers and international assistance.

Tengboche monastery is amidst the Sagarmatha National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site of "outstanding universal value”), draped with a panoramic view of the Himalayan Mountains, including the well-known peaks of Tawache, Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, Ama Dablam, and Thamserku.

Tengboche is the terminus site of the "Sacred Sites Trail Project" of the Sagarmatha National Park that attracts large number of tourists for trekking and mountaineering. It is a circular trail that covers 10 monasteries in a clockwise direction terminating in the Tengboche Monastery.

Welcome Solukhumbu.

12/02/2015

sakigoniii Himal ko sundar ramilo...

10/02/2015

Safe journey home Maya

Way to Solukhumbu from Kathmandu......

30/01/2015

The Epic of Everest...watch it at leasure but watch it...

Film record of the Everest expedition of 1924, restored by the BFI National Archive.

26/01/2015

Mountain Goat . Special Mountain Animal species of Solukhumbu.

Welcome Nepal.

15/01/2015

Namaste Solukhumbu.

12/01/2015

Beautiful Salleri Solukhumbu.