Sep 6, 2026 11 min read
Khas and Lama Humla: The Two Cultures That Meet at Simikot
Simikot holds two cultures on one ridge: a Khas Hindu bazaar below and a Lama Buddhist stone village above. What differs between…
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Simikot holds two cultures on one ridge: a Khas Hindu bazaar below and a Lama Buddhist stone village above. What differs between…
Read more →Humla runs on foxtail millet, proso millet, buckwheat, naked barley and walnuts, and increasingly on subsidised rice brought in…
Read more →Humla runs on two calendars at once. The Buddhist north keeps the Tibetan lunisolar year and its Losar; the Hindu south keeps the…
Read more →Nettle cloth, felted wool blankets and patterned dhaka. Who weaves in the far western hills, on what looms, what the cloth is…
Read more →The world's largest honeybee nests on open cliffs in the Nepali hills, and its spring honey is genuinely toxic. How cliff honey…
Read more →Deuda is sung in a linked circle, with couplets improvised and traded back and forth. In the far west it is largely women who…
Read more →September to November gives Nepal its clearest skies and its two biggest festivals at the same time. What Dashain and Tihar mean…
Read more →Where haggling is normal in Nepal and where it causes offence, what guides and porters are conventionally tipped, how fixed-price…
Read more →How hill terraces are cut and held together, the difference between bari and khet, the crop year they run on, where the water…
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