NEPAL 2008

From June to August 2008 I travelled to Nepal. For the first time I moved my destination from South-East Asia to South Asia. I have been to various places in this hilly country and was more interested in the social situation of the country, rather than trekking the mountains. Sometimes I went along with the German-Nepalese Help Association to their projects or I visited other humanitarian projects.

On various occasions I went to the protests of the Tibetans, which already started in March after the uprising in Tibet. Some of these images can be seen in the Protests 2008 section.

My deepest thanks go to everyone, who I met there and who helped me to get around.

The Buddhist Boudha temple in Kathmandu from the rooftop of a monastery.

A mother and her daughters planting the rice seedlings in Sindahar, southern Terai district.

Two women inspecting the glass-armrings of a vendor in Patan.

A young girl in a small school in Kavre, which was donated and run by a help-organanisation.

A smoking Sadhu at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu.

The colourful Gaj Jatra festival, where the Hindu families commemorate their loved one's, who passed away in the previous year.

Two boys in the pre-school for working kids from the untouchable's caste of Children Nepal in Pokhara.

A streetfight by students for a ticket-discount in public transport, Kathmandu.

Old woman in a home for leprosy patients outside the capital Kathmandu.