Sunrise in middle Himalayas |
Himalayan Range |
Himalayan Range |
Mt. Everest |
Kathmandu |
Festival |
Spinning Yarn |
Tibetan Refugee Carpet Shop |
Finished Carpets |
Buddhist Stupa |
Swayambhunath Temple |
Black kite (Milvus migrans) |
365 Steps |
Mecaque |
Stupa at Swayambhunath Temple |
Stupas at Swayambhunath Temple |
Prayer Wheels |
Swayambhunath Temple grounds |
Buddah Shrine at Swayambhunath Temple |
Macaques |
Custom wiring in Kathmandu |
World's largest stupa at Bodhnath Temple |
Prayer flags at Bodhnath stupa |
A monk at Bodhnath Temple |
Worshiper at Bodhnath Temple |
Typical Kathmandu storefront |
Beggar outside entrance to crematorium |
Hindu Temple |
Bagmati River |
Public crematorium |
Funeral pyres |
Women working a terraced slope in the middle Himalayas |
Rice |
Middle Himalaya highway |
Prayer flags at a village temple |
Terraces - middle Himalayas |
Corn "silo" |
Middle Himalaya farming |
Habeneros drying |
Typical Nepali house |
Mustard |
A single point plow and a pair of water buffalo |
Overlook of Kathmandu Valley |
Farming in the middle Himalayas |
Kathmandu Valley overlook and campsite |
Salt circles |
Early morning fog |
Sunrise in a cloud |
Napali children at daybreak |
Sculptured hills |
Napali playground |
Panorama of the Himalaya Range |
Nepali children |
Rural grain mill |
Rural Nepali home |
Produce |
Drying corn |
Hillside farm |
Sunrise Camp 2 |
Terraced farms in the middle Himalayas |
Sunrise at Camp 1 |
Middle Himalayas |
Second campsite |
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Terraced fields |
Mustard and Buckwheat |
Worn hands of a Nepali farmer |
Nepali farmer |
Multi-purpose woven mats |
Orchids in Nepal |
Generations |
Nepali children |
Ferns |
Sunrise at Camp 2 |
Sunrise at Camp 2 |
Sevaral modes of travel on Nepali streets |
Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) |
Mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) |
Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) |
Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) |
Common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) |
White-browed wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis) |
Asian openbill (Anastomus oscitans) and Eastern great egret (Ardea modesta) |
Bathing elephants |
A tricky way to cross crocodile-infested rivers |
Intermediate egret (Mesophoyx intemedia) |
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) |
Stork-billed kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) |
White-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) |
Mugger crocodile |
Red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus) |
Greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) |
Indian roller (Coracias benghalensis) |
Rainbow over Langtang Village |
Nepali elder with prayer wheel |
Langtang Village |
A prized white male Yak watches over his harem |
Yak (Bos grunniens) |
Kyanjin Gompa - the end of the line |
View from above Kyanjin Gompa |
Prayer flags atop Kyanjin Ri - 15,100 ft. |
Looking south down Langtang valley from Kyanjin Ri |
Panorama of Langtang Valley from Kyanjin Ri |
Erecting prayer flags on Kyanjin Ri |
Heading down |
Yellow-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) |
Wheels of Yak cheese |
Prayer wheels at Ryanjin Gompa monastery |
"Worship room" inside the Ryanjin Gompa monastery |
Trekking up the Langtang valley |
Yala Peak from Langtang valley |
Alluvial debris from the Langtang Khola river |
Full moon over Kyanjin Gompa |
Helicopter obstacle course in Langtang valley |
Terraced farming enroute to Kathmandu by helicopter |
Kathmandu and Bodhnath stupa |
Street in Bhaktapur |
Drying rice in Bhaktapur |
"Peacock Window" |
At Durbar Square in Bhaktapur |
Dattatraya Temple in Durbar Square in Bhaktapur |
Narrow street in Bhaktapur |
Typical apartment in Bhaktapur |
Community water well in Bhaktapur |
Dattatraya Temple in Durbar Square in Bhaktapur |
Ancient game played in an ancient city |
Fine wood carving of an old royal palace in Bhaktapur |
Old well site in Bhaktapur |
Thanka painting |
Thanka artist in Bhaktapur |
Temple Guardians at Royal Temple, Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Siddhi Laxmi stone temple |
Durbar Square in Bhaktapur |
Nepal native napping in Durbar Square |
Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Hindu Temple in Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Bell at Hindu Temple, Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Hindu Temple detail |
Ornate wood carving on door to Royal Palace |
Guarded door to Hindu Temple |
King's Bath at the Royal Temple |
A brass cobra guards the King's Bath |
Waterspout at King's Bath |
Guardians at a door to the Royal Temple |
Yama (Tibetan Buddhist God) |
Ugrachandi (Tibetan Buddhist god) |
Bhairab (Tibetan Buddhist God) |
Interior Courtyard at Royal Palace, Dunbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Hand carved wood door and entry |
Typical narrow street in Bhaktapur |
Drying rice in Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Pottery at Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Mixing soil and water to make clay |
Pottery at Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Pottery and Rice, Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Nyatapola Pagoda, Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Shrine in Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Nyatapola Pagoda, Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Nyatapola Pagoda, Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Near Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Stupa in Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Rooftop view overlooking Durbar Square and the Royal Palace |
View of Royal Palace, Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Durbar Square, Bhaktapur |
Women separating rice straw - Bhaktapur |
Healing Bowl treatment |
Street in Bhaktapur |
Purple Door, Bhaktapur |
Boy and Rice Straw, Bhaktapur |
Street Scene, Bhaktapur |
Curbside Parking, Kathmandu |
Traditional Nepali Dinner |
Motorbike Warning |
Bamboo Scaffolding |
Trek in Chitwan National Park |
Elephant Ride |
Boats on the Rapti River |
Termite Mound |
Durbar Square, Kathmandu |
Durbar Square, Kathmandu |
Durbar Square, Kathmandu |
Durbar Square, Kathmandu |
Durbar Square, Kathmandu |
Durbar Square, Kathmandu |
Royal Palace Museum entrance, Durbar Square, Kathmandu |
Durbar Square, Kathmandu |
Elaborate Hand-carvings on Royal Temple, Durbar Square |
American Eurocopter AS350 B3 |
Village of Kyanjin Gompa - 12,700 ft. elevation |
Prayer Wall near Kyanjin Gompa |
Stone Calender of unknown age |
Rock walls, clouds and glacier melt streams |