Vote for Mount Everest!!!

whoever you are and wherever you live, if you love Nepal, please do vote for Sagarmatha National park (Mount Everest Area) as the one of the seven Natural wonder of the World! I truly believe that million people will love to see Mount Everest as one of the seven Natural wonders of the world!!!

Please nominate Sagarmatha National Park as the Seventh Natural Wonders of the world Please nominate Sagarmatha National Park as the Seventh Natural Wonders of the world. The closing date for nomination is Aug 8, 2008. For nomination please log on to :

http://www.natural7wonders.com/index.php?id=637

How to nominate?

Please follow the following instruction.

For Nomination Please type Sagarmatha Park, Nepal

For Categories Please choose Nature Conservation Park

For Country Please choose Nepal

Please note that you will receive an email with hyperlink to confirm your nomination. You just need to click on the hyperlink to confirm your voting. Note: You can submit up to a maximum of 7 nominations or just 1 nomination. Your vote can establish the glory and pride of Sagarmatha and create million dollar publicity for Nepal. Thank you vote your support. The nominations will continue through 08.08.08. Then a panel of experts will create a list of 21candidates from which voters worldwide will elect the 7 wonders of nature. (Source : www.welcomenepal.com)

Amazing Syafrubesi

Photo : Hem Khatiwada (Pic.1) and Cliff Clohessey

We had a great time while we were at Syafrubesi for trekking. Warm hospitality at Hotel Sky, Syafrubesi and amazing view from view tower Goljung made our trip wonderful. Lakpa Tamang of Hotel Sky became a perfect guide for us!! I love Syafrubesi!

Destination Gosainkund

Although it was monsoon, we sucessfully managed a trekking to Gosainkund (Non-frozen frozen lake). It was full of Adventure and fun as I was with my uni friends.

Tourism for Overall Rural Development (TORD)

Village
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

Village tourism/ rural tourism is attracting and serving tourists in villages through local skill, product and culture. Nepal has more than 103 ethnic groups and 93 spoken languages (source: - NTB). This native apartness of the communities can be attraction for several foreigners, as the result they can be a unique tourism product to receive thousands of tourists in villages, which finally can contribute to boost up local economy. Nepal has several indigenous ethnic groups, which have native and unique identities with their own culture, languages and customs. Villages can be best place for researchers, volunteers, project managers and anyone who wish to experience Nepalese culture and traditions plus real part of the country. In Nepal there is good scope of village tourism. Rural villages are to be emphasized to make them as tourists’ attraction and should be promoted as tourists’ destination. Rural villages have opportunities of development if more tourists visit. Promoting village tourism means promoting and protecting local customs and tradition to protect cultural identity and providing support to local people to improve their economy.

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Rural Development Issue

This landslide has separated villages from the modern part of rural district. Landslide has been biggest obstacles for people as they must cross this almost every day. There is a small hospital and they have got an ambulance from ADRA (An Australian Aid Agency) but that has been of no use since road to the hospital has been destroyed by landslide. Apart from that, rural people have to carry everything themselves. Price of market products has been increased whereas people have been facing other challenges too. Children have to walk hours through the landslide to reach school.
There is a famous development model successfully adopted by India, US and some other counties to develop their rural part called PUARA (Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas) seems to be very effective to develop such remote places of Nepal. PUARA is decentralising urban facilities and infrastructures to rural areas for the overall development of the country. There should be good road in remote villages and other infrastructures of development e.g. school, modes of communication, hospitals, factories. This is not to make them city but to make them modern villages with urban facilities. This will not only stop mass migration to the cities, but provides education, health, employment and other opportunities to the villagers in village. It is very expensive and challenging for us to fully adopt this model but we can simply focus on most important part which could be effective to address several contemporary issues of the related areas. Currently population of Rasuwa is about 50000, whereas more are 3 million people live in Kathmandu. Rasuwa is more than two times bigger than Kathmandu.
We hear so many things in recent days about BUILDING NEW NEPAL, so this idea could be important and useful for our planners and policy makers to further develop their master plan. Despite landslides, floods, and other natural disasters, we can develop our villages. But it is not easy and a single effort alone is nothing for this when our leaders and intellectuals have not stopped fighting each other, so this idea is a just a theory at the moment. I wish there was a good teamwork and mutual cooperation among all people to develop our nation otherwise country will lose another thousand highly skilled and demanded people as they will leave the nation as always seeking security, employment and survival.

Native culture as a tourism product

Native culture as a tourism product
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

ECWZ with the help of NHCC is trying to promote village tourism. ECWZ want to convert traditional culture and costumes with the adventerous hillsite station, as the tourism product.

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Traditional Costume!!

Costume of Jhyanglanga
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

This is the costume of traditional Nepal. Cholo and Phariya with white Patuka identifies Nepalese lady. New generation are being forgotten of these costumes. ECWZ is encouraging them not to forget their unique culture.
NHCC is developing the feeling of responsibility among children and youth towards their culture and community.

Water grinding mill

Water grinding mill
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

About 30000 family in Nepal have this type of water grinding mill. This mill is just for winter. The most destructive landslide destryed their land but still they are trying to survive and feed their family with the help of these types of grinding mill.
14 years human disaster and violence in the name of "people's War" has destryed so many familes and children. Both the nature and humans have been killing people. Lets hope upcoming days will be for peace and brotherhood. Live and let live.

Grandson following Grandfather

Grandson following Grandfather
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

Karsingi, one of the ECWZ sponsored Child is performing Tamang cultural and ancient dance in front og his Grandfather. Grandfather is happy because he is too old to do such dances and now Grandson is following his grandfather.
Karsingi, you are really making difference!!!

Dancing

Dancing
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

Improved, inspired, self motivated and attractive Fourth Show by NHCC

Chhatra n Bhajan

Chhatra n Bhajan
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

This is Chhatra (made up of colourful clothes and bamboo through holy way). The dance people do in this occasion is called Balan dance. Organising Chhatra is like a festival but it is not compulsory to organise every year. This year it has been organised after five year. The culture almost forgotten by young generation and about to disappear from the country. I am proud of you my dears for what you doing. Kishan Dai will always there to support you.

Parents in Children's show

Parents in Children's show
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

Rock The Deli, an adventerous rock to be climbed

Rock The Deli
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

Rock climbing!!

Rock climbing!!
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

Once you try to climb rocks which you find everywhere in the villages and in National park area in Rasuwa, you may feel you are in Rock Climbing Centre. There are a lot of Rocks of different types and size that you can try at any of them independently. “Rock The Deli” is about 20 meter high and there are some rocks which are just 2-3 meter which are easy to climb. Experience the native culture of Rural Nepal and have an adventure with the unclimbed and untouched Rocks of Rasuwa. You will forget Namche and Tenzin Rock once you experience on these rocks.

Typical culture with native apartness

Typical culture with native apartness
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

NHCC has started a campaign to protect native culture of the remote villages of Rasuwa. Since its formation, NHCC is highly committed and dedicated to ensure welfare of the people in the lap of remote Langtang. NHCC, through its member from more than seven villages at the moment, combines all the cultural heritages through its several cultural shows. Especially Tamang and Barmhin culture are found in remote villages. Young generation has accepted the challenge to protect tradition and native apartness of the culture of Rasuwa whereas people are being unknown from which culture and tradition they are.
Youth participation to make their own society is the central idea of the club. Currently NHCC has 100 members but there are a lot of children who wish to be the member of the club.

Pratik @ NHCC show

Pratik @ NHCC
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

NHCC to protect native culture of Rural Nepal

culture of Rasuwa @ NHCC
Originally uploaded by Kishan Devkota.

New Horizon Children’s Club (NHCC) organised a cultural programme few days ago as their first formal programme and step of a big campaign. Established with the aim of working to ensure cultural protection and to address other issues related to children in rural communities, NHCC organised a cultural night. Despite unavailability of the resources like musical instruments, proper cultural/traditional dresses, music systems and so on, NHCC had good night show. It performed a show between more than 100 villagers. Children have to work 6 hour a day except 6 hour at school. This is what they are doing in the rest of the day. It’s so hard because they don’t have enough time now for playing and doing other tasks that might be interesting for them. But still they look happy and highly motivated to do something for their community. They practice sometime up to midnight. The village where the NHCC formed and works is a mix community. One can experience the blend of Tamang and Brahmin culture.
Children borrowed the dresses from a school and instruments from a nearby village, they borrowed speakers from villagers and organised the programme. They had to start programme at 8 pm because they didn’t have time during they since they were supposed to work at their home and field. Parents were also busy during daytime. The night was perfect because kids and adults both had free time after dinner and all could enjoy the programme. Within two hours programme, members of NHCC performed different types of music and songs. It was first time we were dancing and organising such programme. Lets hope we will be doing this type of programmes and even more effective programme even in future.

Chitwan

Chitwan
Originally uploaded by kriss214.

We had jungle safari at Chitwan. I still think it was amazing although we couldn't see any dangerous animals.(What a shame!!)
The bush you see in picture is cut down every year during winter. These types of plants are very useful for making fibre things and Tharu people use this instead of wood to make typical house.

Sauraha

Sauraha
Originally uploaded by kriss214.

Best place for jungle safari and boating. Accessible and convenient to see things.

KOSHI

KOSHI
Originally uploaded by kriss214.

The biggest river of Nepal. It has seven rivers as branch among which some of top classical river for rafting and bungy jumping