à¤िडियो हेर्न तलको बक्स à¤ित्र क्लिक गर्नुहोस
From the district capital of Simikot, spread across a ridge at 2900m, the Great Himalaya Trail follows that old salt trading option to Tibet. The trail threads along towering green cliffs across the roaring Karnali, a long river in Nepal. You’ll pass clusters of flat-roofed mud houses, encountering Thakuri women wearing heavy gold and silver jewellery, and Thakuri men leading flocks of long-haired goats up and across the muddy trail to Tibet.
As you approach Hilsa and the northwestern border, the landscape becomes drier, and the context, Buddhist. It’s easy to turn southeast in the Limi Valley’s incredible red rockscapes and mediaeval stone neighborhoods. Beyond lies aglacial valley below the 5000m Nyalu pass, with the aquamarine Tshom Tsho Lake providing remarkable contrast with the burnt sienna in the treeless expanses.
The Humli people, like Nepalis throughout country, are incredibly diverse. About 85% of the 56,000 people who are now living in this sparsely populated district are Hindu. Buddhists, some of whom practice polyandry, occupy the highlands. Per anthropologist Carol Dunham:
“Humla is one of the most culturally fascinating places in each one of Nepal, a cultural tapestry woven from ancient Khasa kingdoms, ancestors of the grand Zhangzhung kingdom on the north, with Rajput and Thakuri blended into this mixture.
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