Search

Facebook Nepalese Folkstone https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067785397997  This is a lady from the Gurung group from West Nepal. She is dancing at the World in a Tent festival in Folkstone.

Facebook Nepalese Folkstone https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067785397997  There are many ethnic groups that make up the Nepalese communities in the UK. These dancers are from the Limbu eth…

Facebook Nepalese Folkstone https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067785397997 The Limbu costume is traditionally made from gold. These days they are painted gold.

 This is an affluent area. The maximum you can build is two floors because of the risk of avalanches.

 Here is the modern village is a traditional Hindu temple

 A traditional village in the upper ranges of the Himalayas just below the snow line. We see thatches roofs and wooden buildings. They would keep the animals on the ground floor. 

 A traditional house with Everest in the background. Water and electricity must be used sparsely and with generators and wells in the remotest areas. 

Here we see the cobbled stoned steps and walls that facilitate life in the mountains. All the buildings here would have been resourced from local and natural materials. Although politics is never far…

 This a thatched outhouse used for drying crops and animals. 

Facebook Nepalese Folkstone https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067785397997  The ladies traditionally used to wear genuine gold ornaments. These days they still keep gold jewellery as part of…

Facebook Nepalese Folkstone https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067785397997  This is a Kirat Rai dancing the Sakela dance at a World in a Tent event in Folkstone. The Sakela dance copies the …