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Nepal - Himalayan Foothills. Road to Kathmandu - Drew and Jim (Peter Ehresmann)
Date: 04/19/2008
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Nepal - Himalayan Foothils. Road to Kathmandu -Drew and Jim (Peter Ehresmann)
Date: 04/19/2008
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Germany -
Date: 09/22/2008
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Nepal - Back road to Kathmandu (Peter Ehresmann)
Date: 04/20/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar border town with India - Vegetable stands
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar border town with India - Tricycle Turnip salesman
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar border town with India - Indian subcontinent cycles
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar town - Cows, revered by Hindus as holy, wander freely over most of the subcontinent, except in hands of peo
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar town - Bicycle pooling: double environmentally friendly
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar town - The pedicab, very common in the subcontinent. Mistakenly called a "ricksaw," even in India
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar town - Some Nepali men dress traditionally, more western. Nearly all women dress traditionally in colorful
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar town - School bus/tricycle!
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar town - Vegetable market on wheels; this 4-wheel cart set-up is very common in the subcontinent.
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar town - Holy Cow!
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Looking through the sugarcane press
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - pressing sugar cane at another sugarcane stand, while a couple colorful ladies enjoy their beverage.
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar (Nepal-India border) - A common sight in Nepal, police soldiers on patrol. Biking along the highways, we sa
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Mahendranagar (Nepal-India border) - Bicycle rush hour. In both India and Nepal, we have noted that women's dress remains
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Forest! Near a national park area
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Kids at our lunch stop restaurant, eager to practice English
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - A highschooler at our lunch stop, shy, but speaks decent English.
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Nepali Lemonaide Stand...Sugar Cane and salt = our new favorite sports drink (US$0.15 a glass)
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Nepali Lemonaide Stand...Sugar Cane and salt. Running the sugar cane through the press. I don't know why
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Sharing the road. Main east-west lowlands highway
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Amiliya village - A Nepali sunset; reminding me of Cambodian Mekong River sunsets
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Amiliya village - A very nice mute man who put forth along of energy to communicate with us at the village
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Kohalpur - arriving on the outskirts of Kohalpur town
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Kohalpur - With our gracious and kind host, Brahmm Nand Yadau (B.N.), and his family. He hosted us for a n
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Kohalpur - B.N., our homestay host, is primary school teacher.
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Kohalpur - B.N.'s daughter
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Kohalpur - Grade 6 at B.N.'s school. A small room, but also a small class in this private school. Governme
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Amiliya village - dishes
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Amiliya village - The head cook
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Nepali cyclists walking hauling heavy loads of wood on their bikes...old but strong designed bikes
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Nepali school bus ...er cage
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Little Man
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Little Man
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Dust Storm!
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands -
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Mango break!
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Mango break!
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands - Peter loves mangos!
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Amiliya village - One of the 3 daughters of the best cook in the village where we stayed the night. Rice a
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Amiliya village - The cook's daughter and the wood-fired mud stove behind
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, west lowlands, Amiliya village - Typical wood-fired mud stove
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Pokhara - hiking above the clouds, Pokhara town down below
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Pokhara - The Anapurna Range, with Fishtail mountain in the center. These were the first and only snow-capped Himalayas w
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Pokhara - And we're hauling all this on our bikes!
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Pokhara - School boys. Someone taught them the bird. We noticed Nepali people seemed more Western than Indians, seemingly
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, moving SW from Pokhara - More amazing terracing
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, moving SW from Pokhara - Another careless driver on an unforgiving road. Don't worry, we only go 25km/hr.
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, moving SW from Pokhara - Breaktime! A long downhill for a change (10-20km). Different muscels get sore...like hands holdi
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, moving SW from Pokhara - camping on a terraced field
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, moving SW from Pokhara - coming down out of the mountains
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, moving SW from Pokhara - mass transit
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, moving SW from Pokhara - Somehow Coca-Cola and Pepsi have permeated every corner of the earth. The smallest village seeme
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Kathmandu-Pokhara hwy - a windy road doesn't mix well with crazy sub-continent driving.
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Kathmandu-Pokhara hwy - amazingly nice & beautiful road for a main national highway
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Pokhara - We hung out a bit on our guesthouse roof overlooking the lake in Pokhara, a nice calm change of pace from other
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Pokhara - hiking up above the clouds
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - Some youth go to school, some work.
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - To school
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Kathmandu - View from our guesthouse
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Kathmandu - Kathamandu's rivers are horribly polluted, essentially open sewers and garbage dumps. I haven't seen or smell
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Kathmandu, Thamel - Kathmandu's busteling tourist area, filled with cheap guesthouses, western food, outdoors stores for
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Kathmandu-Pokhara hwy - surprisingly a nice ride with less traffic than we expected between two of Nepals major cities
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Kathmandu-Pokhara hwy -
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area - what a front yard!
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, junction with Jiri-Kathmandu road - Jim in our breakfast restaurant that was hanging on flimsy stilt
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - A bus used to thresh wheat purposefully laid on the road for that purpose.
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - Harvesting wheat from terraced fields
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - Drew and Jim climbing another long up on our backroad to Kathmandu
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - If it weren't for the "hazy season" you'd see snow-capped Himalayas in the bac
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - 65km to Kathmandu (approaching from the northeast on the Kathmandu-Jiri/Mt Everest hwy)
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - Water water
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - We often saw people carrying everything this way, with a strap on their forehead and the
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - Hauling leaves in the Nepali fashion with the forehead strap and basket
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - Some kids go to school, some work.
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Jiri road - hauling leaves
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area - Peter on the rough, rocky backroad to Kathmandu in the Indrawati River valley [Drew]
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area - a few local kids helped Drew by pushing the Bandwagon.
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area - Andrew resorts (like we all did on hills like this) to walking the Bandwagon up. Jim
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area - Amazing terracing in this river valley, the Indrawati River
Date: 06/13/2008
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Nepal, Ridiculous photo edited poster on a restaurant wall. Mt Fiji takes Paris? What poor child is going to think there is a h
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area backroad to Kathmandu - Peter's foot and wheel on the worst kind of rough road: sharp
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area backroad to Kathmandu - Niu niu enjoys the fresh air and water
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area backroad to Kathmandu - Plenty of terracing back here, the only way to grow food in th
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area backroad to Kathmandu - sunset; beautiful but...where will we sleep...and eat???
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area backroad to Kathmandu - We follwed the road down to the river, and lucky us, there was
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - Drew & Jim tackeling the never ending Japanese-built switch back road
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - Breakfast hut, luckily after camping on the Japanese road, we found this rest
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - Breakfast hut's breakfast: rice and veg curry. Good enough for us!
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - The Japanese road after the pass, turning into construction as everyone had w
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - The Japanese road further deteriorating into just dirt. But we pushed through
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - Pushed through to this: rock path. The begining of the most difficult leg of
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati, Khurkot 1 village - Portrait of Mr. Shankar in Khurkot village where our rocky
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati, Khurkot 1 village - Mr. Shankar's house. Typical Nepali construction of wood a
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - Said suspension bridge before our "road" turned to a steep walking
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuli - Restaurant hut, where the 2km walking trail joined up with another rocky road to
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area - The backroad to Kathmandu...
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, Sindhuli area backroad to Kathmandu - Drew & Jim coming 'round the mountain
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills - Drew & Jim working hard with our first taste of the Himalayas..."one pedal stroke at a tim
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills - Our "back road" to Kathmandu
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - Somehow these huge buses still run on this small, single-lane dirt road to Si
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - a peeker from the next restaurant stall over
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - curious peeker
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - Suddenly the dirt turned to brand-new Japanese-built road, to stay over the t
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - This Japanese-built road reminded me of Hwy 8 in Laos, coming from Vietnam. B
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - Gettin higher...
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - Water break! On the Japanese-built road at dusk, my favorite time of day.
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills, road to Sindhuligati - The Japanese-built switch back road, serious switch backing to conquer this p
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - Jamunibas village women & children
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - As a token of our thanks, I offered to shoot some portraits which I mailed
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - portraits
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - portraits. This young man was the village's main English speaker, our host,
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - portraits. This young man hung out with us, but his English wasn't as good
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - portraits. This woman's eyes remind me of a Tibetan woman we met in Gansu p
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - Drew with our host and his little sister???
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - Group shot with our hosts (young mang white tank top center and woman betwe
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - Another huge dry river bed coming from the Himalayas, like a parched desert coming from the most water-ri
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, Himalayan foothills - And then we turned north off the lowlands Hwy 1, heading straight into the Himalayan foothills...fo
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - FBR passing through small road-side market along main Hwy 1. Where's Drew & Jim?
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - huge dry river beds ("washes") coming down from the Himalayas. Have they always been dry? Are t
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - children play on high-voltage powerlines next to their village's soccer fie
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - Youth at the soccer field
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - Youth at the soccer field
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - Youth at the soccer field. In their excitement, they pre-emptively ran towa
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - Our 2nd story room our gracious hosts gave us. Their house is constructed o
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - Our 2nd story room our gracious hosts gave us. Their house is constructed o
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - Kids! In the morning before we left Jamunibas.
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands, Jamunibas village [homestay] - Kids! In the morning before we left Jamunibas.
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - A different lifestyle. Women & girls at the hand pump well. This is how most rural and small town peo
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - Typical street scene in Nepali/India market town. Pedicabs waiting and ready, three-wheeled home-made typ
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - Typical street scene in Nepali/India market town. People out and about- not just in cars, shops, dirt, ro
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - The main hwy is much less busy than national hwys in India, so we opted to stay in Nepal for as long as w
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - But the Main lowlands hwy going through market towns gets busier, very similar to India
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - Youth who were curious and eager to practice English, and children who were just curious. At our mid-day
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - Youth who were curious and eager to practice English, and children who were just curious.
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - Youth who were curious and eager to practice English, and children who were just curious.
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - Kids on water buffalo with start of the Himalayan foothills in the background, looking north.
Date: 06/12/2008
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Nepal, east lowlands - Village. Its interesting how the information revolution has let everyone know how eachother is living. At
Date: 06/12/2008
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Map
Date: 04/30/2008
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Nepal, Bhutanese Refugee Camp - Walking between the homes in the camp
Date: 04/16/2008
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Nepal, Bhutanese Refugee Camp - The inside of the church where Mouikumar is pastor, where they allowe us to store our bikes over
Date: 04/16/2008
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Nepal, Bhutanese Refugee Camp - The outside of the church
Date: 04/16/2008
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Nepal, Bhutanese Refugee Camp - With brothers Santhos (red L) and Mouikumar, (white R) on the side of their church.
Date: 04/16/2008
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Nepal, Bhutanese Refugee Camp - With other neighbors on the side of their church.
Date: 04/16/2008
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Nepal, Bhutanese Refugee Camp - Mouikumar (white R off cen) and his family in his living room
Date: 04/16/2008
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Nepal, Bhutanese Refugee Camp - In Mouikumar's bed room, where he insisted we sleep instead of on the floor.
Date: 04/16/2008
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