| Pemba.
This is Pemba, the sirdar for our trek. A few days after we started, our group acquired
a ram. Through some odd circumstances, he acquired the name Otis. Otis was roped and
followed us for a few days. Eventually he was consigned to the stew pot. He was tasty,
but quite tough. One of Pemba's perks was getting the hide.
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| Workers.
We had an early morning bus ride from Kathmandu to Trisuli Bazaar. It was a foggy morning,
and we saw many people going about their daily chores as we passed through the outskirts
of the city. I guess these fellows were creating firewood.
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| Weaving.
As we passed through remote villages, we'd often see women weaving cloth. They used the
crudest of homemade looms, but they got the job done.
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| Woman.
Most people were quite receptive to having their pictures taken. Others didn't want to
be photographed and would wave you away, or just turn around. And yet others were in a
grey zone.
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| Market.
I enjoyed wandering around the narrow side streets of Kathmandu. The various shops and
marketplaces certainly were different from what we experience in North America.
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| Pounding.
We often came across scenes such as this in villages that we passed through. It was late
October, and there was a lot of harvesting and related activity going on.
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| On Stairs.
There's a very long stairway that leads up to the Monkey Temple. We encountered serveral
people sweeping the long stairway - passersby would drop rupees for the sweepers. I'm
not sure if this was a job, or some sort of charity work.
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