Thursday, October 2, 2008

Stick dance in Tharu community...


Tharu women - going to the temple on the occasion of Jitiya festival.......


JITIYA, is the women's festival in the Tharu community. Tharus are one of the ethnic groups of Nepal. They live in western south part of Nepal. In the women festival the women go to the temple and ask for good husband and ask for long life and good behaves of their husband if they are married..............

A beautiful village on the way to Pokhara from Ghandruk


A dancing girl in Ghandruk.....


In Ghandruk, all the trekkers are welcomed. The mother committee of the village perform and singing and dancing show for the trekkers. And they ask some donation in return of the performence. And they build the trekking trial and bridges from the donation.......

Fishtail from Punhill (3210m)


Annapurna South and Barah Shikhar from Punhill


A photographer taking photograph of Annapurnas from Punhill (3210m)