TREKKING IN SOLU KHUMBU
Life of Solu Khumbu people
We meet a lot of children on the trail, they
all welcome tourists saying "Namaste" and joining the hands in front of
their little nose like christian do for pra
yer. Namaste means hello in nepalese, they
also say "hello" in English and "one pen", in order to be offered a pen.
But we have no pen, actualy it's not very good to give them anything. André,
one member of our team, has brought some plastic baloons to blow up. Children
are allways very happy but balloon's life is very short!
Tamang little girl:
Nepelase people carry a lot of stuff, they use special handmade baskets and a big stick. It is helpfull to keep balance when they walk, and when they stop, they stuck it under the basket behind them to lighten their burden and have rest.
Nepalese baskets and sitcks:
Inside the kitchen are cooked tsampa (tea with barley meal) and tea:
On the river, watermill are used to make cornflour and barley meal:
Himalayan people has survived until today thanks to yacks, they eat yack dry meat and dry cheese. Tibetan protect themselves from cold with big yack mantel they never take off even for sleeping. When it's too hot, they take off on sleeve which they let hanging. Yack butter is used for cooking as well as for monastery candles. For bouddhist celebrations, the butter is colored and sculpted to represent godesses. Even Yack tail is kept for kleening the house, horns and bones are sculpted to make jewels. Yacks can also transport burdens and people, but I personaly think it's dangerous to get on them, their behaviour is quite unpredictable.
