In April of 2017, I had the opportunity to travel to Nepal for a photography tour. I visited three different cities; Kathmandu, Pokhara, and Chitwan. My main goal was to document what it was like for the people living in Nepal and how they are recovering from the earthquake that took place in 2015.
Despite the rubble and disarray in the streets, the people were very happy and welcoming. They were very genuine and it made me appreciate their culture. This blog is dedicated to all of the beautiful faces.
The women in the top pictures were truly beautiful. Starting with photo 1: I caught a Grandma smiling at her granddaughter. She was a clothes vendor to tourists. A lot of people wondered why the baby had the heavy eyeliner on. The eyeliner is actually charcoal that helps keep the sun and dust out of her eyes. In photo 2: The woman is Native Tharu in her village. She is sweeping the rocks in front of her home. The girls in photo 3 are also Native Tharu in their village. They live a simple but interesting life. Their homes are made out of mud and cow dung. They’ve been around for many years and more to come.
In the first photos, a man is playing a flute. He carved it himself and he wanted to share a song with my group and I. Many people in Kathmandu like to please the tourists by playing them songs or showing them things that they made, and selling them. The women in the middle picture were in front of a temple surrounded by many birds. They were selling bird feed for people and tourists to hand out. The last woman pictured was in front of her home in the Tharu village. Her skill was making rope from the strings of coconuts.
The first photo here was located in the Tharu village. Pictured is a young boy eating rice. The second photo is a Holy Man resting in Kathmandu. Holy men are very common in Nepal. Many of them have long hair and paint their faces. Some don’t like to have their pictures taken but others do. The last photo is a man meditating on top of the World Peace Pagoda in Pokhara. To get to the World Peace Pagoda, you have to take a canoe across the river and then hike up to the Pagoda. Shoes are not allowed on top and you have to be quiet to show respect to people in meditation.
Both photos were taken in Chitwan. Elephants are very common in Chitwan. People often use them as a method of transportation because there is an abundance of them. The first photo was taken at Chitwan National Park and the second one was taken in the streets of Chitwan.
The first two photos were taken in Pokhara of Tibetan shopkeepers located in the Tibetan refugee camp.Tibetan refugees are welcome in Nepal and they live peacefully with everyone else in Pokhara. The last photo is of a local man in Chitwan. He saw me taking photos and posed for me.
Overall, I had a great experience in Nepal. The people were very genuine and they werer comfortable with me taking photos of them. There’s a special place in my heart for Nepal and I want to go back again and visit different parts of it.
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