People in Nepal

This page has pictures of people in Nepal and their activities.

I was in Nepal during the fifteen-day festival called Dashain. There were signs of this festival everywhere. One part of the festival traditions are the large swings constructed from bamboo poles.

Religious worship is apparent everywhere. You can often seen people who stop at a shrine or temple and pray. Hindu temples are everywhere.

I saw a couple of dance performances of local dances.

The rice harvest was in full swing during my time there. All the processing of the harvest is done on the streets in the towns and villages.

As is usual in India, most of the shopping is done in small local stores and on the streets.

All pictures are © Dr. Günther Eichhorn, unless otherwise noted.

People

Relaxing and texting on the steps of an ancient temple. (841k)

Playing on the temple steps. (1006k)

Youngsters playing cards. (1186k)

Mother with school children. (856k)

School children. (713k)

School girl. (749k)

Doing homework. (839k)

Relaxing with a Hookah, a water pipe. (968k)

Relaxing. (796k)

Playing cards. (683k)

Children playing. (912k)

Children playing. (925k)

Children concentrating on their play. (760k)

Large swing, set up for the festival. (791k)

Swinging on a large swing, set up for the festival. (1172k)

Kids swinging. (991k)

Going to the festival. (858k)

Buddhist monk circling the Stupa. (848k)

Buddhist monk at the Stupa. (911k)

Hindu worshiper. (912k)

Baby crib. (757k)

Kids. (1068k)

Little girl. (817k)

Smiling little girl. (908k)

Little girl with a beautiful smile. (844k)

Woman in traditional dress. (790k)

Mother with child. (810k)

Old man. (1093k)

Old man. (783k)

Old woman. (791k)

Dance Performances

Dance performance. (474k)

Dance performance. (634k)

Dance performance. (398k)

Dance performance. (442k)

Drummers at the dance performance. (719k)

Dancers. (557k)

Dancer. (400k)

Dance performance. (667k)

Dancer. (812k)

Male dancer. (758k)

Close-up of a dancer. (399k)

Drummer. (523k)

Housing

Typical house with the Annapurna Range in the background. (714k)

Small restaurant, decorated for the festival. (1023k)

Local houses in Chitwan. (1052k)

Satellite TV in a small village. (811k)

Pedestrian bridge. (1105k)

Storing corn. (1335k)

Storage at a local house. (1012k)

Large balance scale in front of a shop. (1077k)

People clean the front door steps and the street in front of the house and put up small offerings to get good luck for the house. (785k)

There was quite a bit of garbage on the streets, especially in and around Kathmandu. (1157k)

Business

Bakery with large scale. (901k)

Fish for sale. (679k)

Vegetable store. (872k)

Roadside vegetable stands. (865k)

Selling fruit. (761k)

Cobbler shop on the street. (951k)

Pottery factory with wheels for turning pots. The wheel is turned by hand. The pots are then fired in the kiln for four days. (991k)

Unusual anvil for hammering sheet metal. (725k)

Hand painting. (592k)

Hand painting. (1138k)

Intricate hand painting. (1082k)

Very detailed hand painting. (878k)

Hand painting in gold. (1126k)

Very detailed hand painting in gold. (1111k)

Tourist trinkets for sale. (896k)

They will provide electronic visa applications for a USA visa. (804k)

Brick factory. There were a lot of them in the Kathmandu valley. (931k)

Work

Bringing Construction Material Swayambhunath

Bringing construction material to Swayambhunath (Monkey Temple). (1165k)

Women on the way to work. (1136k)

Making millet wine. (1159k)

Distilling pots for millet wine. (917k)

Lower pot if the millet wine distillery. (745k)

Upper pot if the millet wine distillery, upside-down. (660k)

Community well in Bhaktapur. (925k)

Fetching spring water. (906k)

Doing laundry on the river. (1193k)

Doing laundry on the river. (879k)

Doing laundry on the community well. (821k)

Rice field terraces. (957k)

Rice field terraces with the Langtang Range in the background. (735k)

Rice harvest. (1229k)

Rice straw collected in the field. It is used for feeding livestock. (733k)

Processing the rice harvest. (892k)

Threshing and winnowing. (857k)

Turning over the drying harvest (millet and rice). (1077k)

Separating grains from chaff. (1075k)

Separating grains from chaff. (859k)

Drying the harvest. (858k)

Drying the harvest in front of a Vishnu temple with two Garudas. (871k)

Chicken feeding on the drying harvest. I guess they can't eat all that much, so they are not chased away. (1083k)

Transportation

Dugout canoe in Chitwan National Park. (582k)

Pedestrian bridge. (795k)

Carrying a load. They use a band around the load and over the forehead. The load is on the forehead and on the back. (865k)

Woman carrying huge load. (1128k)

Woman carrying a load. (1431k)

Traditional way of carrying loads in Nepal. (1090k)

Bicycle rickshaw. (853k)

Colorful bicycle rickshaw. (833k)

Horse-drawn cart. (697k)

Motorcycles were everywhere. (698k)

Traffic in Kathmandu. (896k)

Not quite a truck. (857k)

Three-wheeled small bus in Kathmandu. (847k)

Loaded truck. (987k)

Loaded truck. (710k)

Colorfully decorated truck. Many trucks were very colorfully decorated. (1015k)

Polluting truck. The Kathmandu valley is quite polluted from traffic. (658k)

Local bus. (932k)

Typically loaded local bus. (1054k)

School bus. (762k)

Not for locals. (764k)

Quite a few roads were in pretty bad conditions (though by far not as bad as what I encountered in Madagascar and other countries in Africa). (1049k)

This stylized Ganesha was on many cars as a protector. (538k)

Traffic jam. (995k)

Livestock

Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus, german: Haushuhn, french: Poule domestique). (683k)

Domestic Duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus)

Domestic Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, german: Stockente, french: Canard colvert) on the road in a local town. (846k)

Ducks were marked with colored bands to show who owns them. (932k)

Feeding Domesticated Goat (Capra hircus, german: Hausziege, french: Chèvre). Goats where everywhere. They were the most ubiquitous livestock. (1230k)