Nepal Apri 2016

 Mexico was good to me but Nepal kept calling me back.
So now I am back in the lap of the biggest mountains in the world. This is a view from top of the roof o f the house of my friend, Narayan.
 This is Narayan's house where I stayed for a couple weeks when I first got here. I am so impressed by the amazing architecture here. The homes of middle class and upper are large and well built making the most of mountain rock that is so abundant in a varityof colors.
 This a common scene, women carrying heavy loads on their backs.
 The city where I live is the second largest in Nepal with close to a million people yet many have very large gardens and domestic animals such as cows, water buffalos, goats, horses,mules, rabbits and chickens. Some times the animals are allowed to roam the city and forage for food from parkways and a great deal of open land around lake Fewa's shoreline. But strangely enough the people, mostly the women, forage the food for the animals and bring it to them!
The pictures above display fire wood storage for back up cooking to save on gas and electric bills. The cement ring is a biogas generator which works very well fueled with animal dung. Many people have solar ovens as well.

Here you can see a cow, calf and Buffalo in a small shed next to a person's home.
 This is my morning shopping purchase all for about ten dollars. The white plastic bag is yogurt from a local dairy shop that sells fresh whole milk, butter and eggs. Most produce is organic. My diet of mostly vegies is well supported here. I am feeling better then I have for years

 This is where I live and do volunteer English teaching and fund raising for a residential private school and NGO.
The school is free for kids from impoverished families. You will hear more from me about fund raising soon on my Facebook and emails. For now I hope you will have a look at our website: www.sansarnepal.org and on FB too. Here's a view from the roof top.


 Here's my new family. There's eight children, four boys, four girls. They have gathered in the living room for the picture.
 Here is our volunteer neighbor baking a birthday cake.
 Kids eating Nepali style with their hands, I love it!
 Our library
 The dining area.
 The living room.
 Kids bunk room.
 Small  floral Garden. We have a very large vegie Garden which the kids really love getting involved in. Bellow is the back yard.
 Our rabbit who runs free during the day.
  The birthday party.
 My bedroom which I am very grateful for. I have the use of a laptop and free Wi-Fi.
 A typical neighborhood family run mini market.
 I am amazed at the homes here, here's a few pics.



 This in contrast is a poor family's home right in the middle of the more affluent homes. They all seem to get along although there is a strong caste system in terms of opportunity and status.
Our kids are very lucky and grateful for the chance to rise above this stigma.

Below is another very poor household built in a small deep canyon, most likely because the land was cheep. This house is very near where I live.

The back yard of our house

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  1. For those of you who have not seen my blog before you can see many previous posts from my travels in Thailand, India, Hawaii, Mexico and more by clicking on the posts listed below. Enjoy! I would love for you to comment, thanks, Albert

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