Pictures, Nepal

A typical room in the home of a Nepali family.  This is typical of most that we have seen. 

'There is always room for one more': the guy is hanging on to the bar and the man behind him is holding him into the vehicle.  We even see school buses loaded to the gills with children.  

This worship place was recently added to the Riverside Springs Resort where we stop to eat each time we pass by.

The men from CHOICE decided we needed to hike to the source of the spring, which was somewhere by those homes on the left of the picture.  They said it was a 1 hour hike; again, it looked like a 3 hour round trip.  We told them we believed there was a spring as they said, and if we did this hike it would take up too much of our day. 

This is a typical room in one of the houses that was built here as emergency relief after the earthquake.  This is just one side of the home--they all had another side; some were separated by a solid wall and others were left more open or accessible to the other side. Everyone was given $3,000 and then taught by skilled technicians on how to properly build their homes.

This man had a solar panel that he was using to charge up people's phones.  We don't know if it was a business for him or if he did it as a service.

The man with the large family built this nice kitchen that was attached to his home.  It was the most updated one we saw in this area.

The man who had built room additions to his home because they said he has a large family.  Here is added a loft.

The cows on their concrete so that urine slides into the ditch.

The urine from the cows slides down the ditch and is separated from the waste.  They use all the human and animal waste for cooking, fertilizer and pesticides.

A more typical cooking area outside the home proper.

This is how they turn urine with bio-digestors into methane gas for cooking. 

Another grand, old tree!

It's a lovely setting for this hotel that used to be a municipal building.

The foliage around this hotel. 

This is the view from the hotel we stayed at one night that is high in the mountains.  From their hotel you can see this view of the entire valley and also the Himalayas.  But this morning all you can see is smog.

Nothing cuter than a little Nepali child!

They only collect water 2 hrs. in the morning and 2 hrs. later in the day.  They cue up their cans waiting their turn.

The people here requesting a water project said that they are the oldest city in Kathmandu--1700!

This is the water committee for the community requesting help with their water project.  Wild boars were tearing up their water lines.