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Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time at Bamboo | Langtang Nepal
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Simple Kitchen at Bamboo Hotel © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Our Five Star Hotel at Bamboo Just a quick post here, sharing what its look like at our five star hotel in Bamboo during our trekking in Langtang Valley. We stayed at basic room with no electricity, the light that you saw there inside the room comes from a small window overlooking a beautiful stream, late afternoon light, normally trekkers doesn’t stay here, they will go up straight to Lama Hotel, just one or two hours trekking from Bamboo, we stay here because it was getting dark and we don’t think we will make it…
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Traveling | The Road Goes On
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Photograph of Me Overlooking Langtang Valley by Ahmad Shukri The Road Goes On There’s a Road Calling you to stray. Step by step Pulling you away. Under Moon and Star Take the Road No matter how far. Where it leads No-one ever knows Don’t look back Follow where it goes. Far beyond the Sun Take the Road Wherever it runs. The Road goes on Ever ever on Hill by hill Mile by mile Field by field Stile by stile. The Road goes on Ever ever on The Road goes on Ever ever on Moor by moor Glen by glen Vale by vale Fen by fen…
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Explore, Dream, Discover | Langtang National Park | Nepal
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | A Photograph of Me Taken by Ahmad Shukri, Enjoying The Magnificent View of Himalaya “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”. – Mark Twain – By now you should already know why we took more than eight to ten hours of trekking time to get from one point over another, when normally all it takes is four to five hours from one post to another. We stop a lot,…
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Nepal | Portrait of Tamang | Tamang Heritage Trail | Langtang National Park
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Tamang | Langtang National Park | Nepal © 2012 Ahmad Shukri | Me and Tamang Women | Langtang © 2012 MHilmi | Me and Tamang Women | Langtang National Park | Nepal The Tamangs (Devnagari: तामाङ; tāmāng) also called “Tamags” are indigenous inhabitants of the Himalayan regions of Nepal. They form one of the major Tibeto-Burman speaking communities and trace their ancestry from Tibet. They have their own distinct culture, language and religion. Through the centuries, due to foreign invasions, they moved to other parts of South Asia. Today, they inhabit practically the entire mountainous regions of Nepal and also adjoining regions of India,…
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Into The Wild | Life is a Journey | Once Upon a Time in Langtang Valley
© 2012 Ahmad Shukri | A Photograph of Me by Ahmad Shukri Against The Great Himalayan Range “If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.” – Jon Krakauer – “You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know…